Indian failure.

There are not many products that have been failing for 15 long years in today's global market. One exception will surly be BCCI's product 'TEAM INDIA' . Over and again this product has been failing in one particular tour i.e of Australia. It is exactly what I'm going to concentrate with this post of mine.

With India loosing the series to Aussis 3-0, with a match yet to be played & also has least possibility of pulling the next one off, there is another game on (off the field though), called the blame game. Now then this particular game has its presence always when ever there is a failure . Each and every person has his own structure of theory which blames someone or the other, depending upon the persons knowledge, thinking ability and most importantly how active is he with respect to media . The latter of those three, according to me is most significant because half of the people who draw conclusions are directly influenced by media . And they blindly reproduce what is being said in media.

Getting into theories of failure, there are 4 main ones.  Seniors not performing up to the mark. Second one though is bit hypothetical, which say lack of a aggressive captain . Blaming IPL for all the bad reasons have become a habit now. Sachin concentrating on that ton of his and not on winning a match . Not playing Rohit sharma instead of Kholi or Sewhag and some more add to the list though. But hang on, just as a prominent cricket analyst, commentator say the tumor is not just here. India has not won a single Test series in Australia . Which says it is not just changing one player here and there or changing the opening composition that would serve. The problem is deeper. One can't keep loosing for a decade and give a momentary excuse.

Remember there isn't a single player in India who should have been on this tour and who isn't . This is by far  the best set of players who could have been on this tour. So it is not just the selectors who need to put their thinking mode on. And when one blames IPL, we need to remember our top 5 batsmen became test players way before IPL started . Dhoni was applauded for being the best aggressive skipper that cricketing world could have ever seen . And there is no point in blaming Sachin because he is still getting those 70's and 80's .

And what really wonders me in personal with this particular tour is that, our defensive weapons badly failing. A war can never be won when you have you defensive weapons weak. You can still win it, if you can't attack though.  But being strong at defending is something that puts you in a better position because it often makes the opposition think of different strategies. So, Dravid and Laxman can't be left out either before you find a perfect replacement. You can't say you can bring in Rohit Sharma either, because his is not a Tendulkar-Bradman put together. Yes he is a good player, but you see, when your front line players fail you can't expect a youngster to come in and fire.

There is one more thing that most of us are negatively proud of saying. 'Inda cannot play over seas ' . Same is the case with the other teams right. England and Aussis could keep their winning streak going whn they toured India in recent past. Hence it is evident that one can play only in their back yard. Which brings all under the same roof. England, the no.1 team itself failed terribly and ended game in just 3 days with Pakistan when not played in England. Not producing  sporty tracks can only be the possible reason which questions if the game is played in right spirits.


Finding a solution to the problem with India touring Aussis is not something that one can sit back and arrive at on a blog. BCCI should think "Why is my product failing time and again " . For now it is sure that, irrespective of the 11 Aussis is playing, India cannot play cricket in Aussis. After all, after seeing  5 series's disaster you can arrive here. It is the administrators, selectors, skipper, seniors & staff who need to think about the failure time and again. And it is not media, common cricket analysts who fail to understand difference between a red ball and the white one, who should be thinking so much.

Being a true cricket fan, I support men in blue and cheer them .

sakethursforever : ) 

Tentative and a bit more .

It was 1999-2000 that i have first seen India play on Aussis in Australia and I find it extremely satisfactory to say  Aussis seems to be a little unclear about what their strategy is going to be and further more tentative about the composition of who is going to play. And it was India that started to show the world that Aussis can be won upon.

Normally, we in India we tend to hold on to a player, but Aussis have got that ability i call to let people go. If you see 10-15 years ago Aussis have players like Bevan, Lehman, Gllispe who were not performing, otherwise why we would have not seen Lee Pointing or Hussey today. Time and again they look for performance and not track record unlike we in India . But on this juncture, Ponting, Mike Hussey who's believed to be Mr. Cricket are out of form and they still manage a berth on the playing list. This shows how ambiguous they are about the decision of dropping one of their main front line players. They kept on to Ponting, kept on to Hussey which show lack of aggression that one would normally expect from an Australian team before a tough series like this. And also the inability to take the hard decision. Normally Australians are pretty sure about the composition of the playing 11 way before the match starts. The selection came just less that a week before the test . And also the fact that they are not clear whether to play 5 bowlers or 4, shows how indecisive they are . They generally say, we play 5 bowlers, one keeper, so lets look who the 5 best batsmen are. But now, they say if Marsh plays then 4 bowlers or if he doesn't then 5. The typical decision making selection of Aussis is not to be seen. This suggests to me a little crisis in confidence, which is brought about because of the number of event that took place since quite a while . Ponting not getting a massive score for 31 innings now, getting bundled out for 47 against South Africa, loosing the winning streak in WC matches, loosing to Newzealand for the first time in 26 years, and all other things add to it. More so, as we all know, the confidence of the team reflects in the mouth work they do before such an important series. They should have told by now, India's got injury worries, Zaheer not match fit, Fielding is not up to the standards, Indian were badly hit by England and victory is cake walk for Aussis . Rather they are worrying about their own problems and seem to concentrate less on opponents.

Although, Indian Batsmen failed badly in their previous outing outside India, I do expect the batting legends to come good for India this time . Talking about Indian side, I wonder if Ishant can show the same magic that he has show the last time. Then, he was a fear less young fast bowler, who ran in fast and picked up vital wickets. But, as time goes one gets experiences, that experience makes you play safe . You may not be the same old person who ran in hard and one who can pitche the ball up without any fear. This happens with best of the best players. And players who don't let experience affect their style of play are like Sehwag. He will be the key to lay the right foundation along his partner and legends there to come should make life easy. And this san happen when Indian bowling falls in right shape. And reportedly this is the best chance for India to win this time. I predict a 2-0 or 2-1 for India. And also how can one forget the 100th ton . I see Sachin extremely confident this time around and the 92 not out he scored says so. He could have completed this in Odi's against WI back home and could have gone with a free empty mind. But he has opted against it which shows how confident he is.

 The most awaited.
The action starts monday 26th Dec, 5.30 in the morning. Boxing Day!!!



sakethursforever :)

Enjoy Yourself, Don't let something else enjoy you.

It takes me a few days back when I was returning home after a late night visit to my friend's place and heard a cocky voice of a person who was accelerating just parallel . I would not have thrown interest if what the person has told wasn't poetic, at least to me . It was not as easy at it looked to demystify the inner meaning of what I heard . Which read, " Life has taught me one thing, You should enjoy the drink but one shouldn't allow it enjoy you ". I could almost spontaneously know about which drink he was speaking about to the pillion rider. One thing which was mysterious to me was that I could not make out the difference between enjoying a drink and vice versa. It was always to me just loosing ones sense to a liquid that itself takes shape of something else that it is contained in.

It is known that a human body has got various organs and the ones which can sense things around are classified into 5 types. It is understood that a person who is medically sound would have all his five senses working to full efficiency  along with the brain that processes the sensing organs. But here comes a situation where a person gifts his vital organs to a bottle of unknown liquid. I used the word 'gift' because the person declares a holiday to himself  and also because I find a lot people who are addicted call it enjoyment or fun. Now what wonders me is how can someone deposit his assets (senses) with someone else and call it enjoyment. How can loosing something vital (senses) as far as your body is concerned to an external agent in the name enjoyment  or fun. Not in worst case ever that a person will give away something that he has, to someone else and say I'm happy. Then why is this not in the case of an addiction. Why is that we give away or rather gift away our senses and claim external happiness. 

People may call it healthy, addon to a happy life, enjoyment and the means by which one can get disconnected with rest of the world. But, all this when your senses are sleeping is of no use. Becauae when there is no sense, what is that you enjoy. When someone cannot know what is happening around how can that state of him be defined.

It may be a 21 days old baby, who was put off on ventilator by a sweeper under influence or people who lost their legs just for sleeping on footpath, both of them had done nothing expect having a relaxed sleep. The one who is waiting to see the world . It is a pity that the young lad has not even seen calender change its month, before something brutal has happened . All because someone else is relaxing and enjoying his curiosity. One may say it was an accident. But one that takes place because of misfortune is termed to be an accident. Not the one which is committed in a state of mind where a person himself doesn't realize what his mind is asking him to do.

A person is punished and put behind bars because he has lost the status to live in the civic world ans similarly various organisations treat in a mentally challenged patients away from the outside world to a find a difference between who are mentally sound. I may sound cynical and typical but putting those who are "addicted" under the same roof and keeping them away from the civilized world makes perfect sense (at least to me) . A person can fiddle with any amount of risk, as far as his own life matters, surly not when he could be a hazard to others around. Allowing such people to live in this world will no longer call this a civilized place. That case, probably early man would be a better contender for being called civilized.

Addiction may  may be  fashion, trendy, curiosity or as a status symbol. But, loosing control of ones own sense and mind is like "loosing dignity to live in this world." If you consider to be a human at basic level and if you like to live in a civilized civilization the control system must be redesigned. I would say "Enjoy the life, Don't let your life enjoy your preposterous state of mind."

Not the miasmic fluid inside the bottle, not the nausea that the powed gives you  and not the toxin those  leaves leave behind inside your body are going to do any good to you. Rather great conversation with people around or clam honest talk with self would do great deal of good to you. 

Don't loose your senses to anyone or anything.  Enjoy yourself, Don't let other things enjoy you!!!

PS. Remember anything that disables you mentally or physically is something you should hug. 

sakethursforever :)

Evolve Exist & Extinguish

The evolution, existence and everything else that is bound to happen with the smallest of the thing that is a part of the universe is predominantly governed by laws, thesis, reasons that great philosophers, scientists, mathematicians, astronomers, astrologers framed, written and drafted. As a matter of fact we dint know the existence of the gravitational force until  Newton came up with his argument and a valid support to his thesis.

A well known general philosophical thesis, states that for everything that happens there are conditions such that, given them nothing else could happen. And just like any other thing, this has got enough on the other side of the coin which says, everything that happens just happens whether or not the generalized conditions get imposed.

Imagine this huge ball of fire that dangle in the open space, has number of balls revolving around it . This ball call The Earth finds its place exactly at a certain distance where, "life" is realized . It is not a light year away nor is it half a light year nearer, either of which, the post you are reading may have not taken its shape .

Going by the former theory, there are perfect set of circumstances, that put this system in the exact position that it is in. In a better way, it has a certain purpose for this system to take shape or may be it is determined to evolve this way and determined to exist the way it is for millions of years now. And, hence the theory gets its name The Theory of Determinism. The other side of the argument, The Theory of Randomness; states everything that happens is a shear coincidence.

 Neither of the two theories have yet been proven, and can one be sure that the proof would not see light for quite sometime .

But one can make out another theory out the two theories of Determinism & Randomness; who's proof exist in the very fact that, one of the two theories does exist . It is simply that anything and everything that happened, which is happening and the ones that are going to happen are bounded by one of those two theories. Either are they are determined or random as we see.

A prisoner in one of most barbaric prison of the world or a nation where people are treated worse that slaves, look at Wind which seem as a helping hand and feel if they could be as free as the wind which could act on its own . People may look up to a river that is flowing with great force of enthusiasm and feel if they could run away so happily someday. Be it flowing water or Blowing wind travelling from one place to another are considered to be free and are signs of freedom .

Not many realize that when we look at flowing water and feel blowing wind, they seem to look unhappy. Once a kid tried asking the pleasant wind to stay with him forever . It silently replied, I wish I could be stationary just like every other thing on the earth, but then I will no longer be called wind . It went on to say, I wish I could be as free as you people are, to do anything that you like, visit anyplace that you want. And then it was time for the wind to move on leaving the young kid astonished to what he heard.

It was long before the kid realized in his physics class that wind flows as a result of pressure difference and in his geography class that water flows from one place to other place because of the topography. And both have certain driving forces and neither of the two are really free to enjoy their freedom.

Never was something Determined, that a low pressure would act upon this place and wind may get driven towards that particular area. Neither is that place selected in Random for the low pressure to act . And this contradicts the existence of both the theories . Also, waiting for a new theory to satisfy everything which could soon turn out to be mum after decades just like the other two is not going to fetch something .

So, just like that little kid, we all are just students through out and we keep learning things which changes us, changes our life and everything related to it very easily . And not to forget, this keeps going as long as we keep learning.


sakethursforever  :)

DAWN.. Breaking somewhere, Building elsewhere

Morning Light,


You scoot through the lands with freedom at a village,
You peep into narrow lanes of a city.

You initiate someone for a early walk,
You make someone else malaise.

You bring light into peoples life,
You bring plight into someone else's life .

You hover over the young pupil bright faces at school,
You also wander with an unwanting expression into  attenuated prisons.


You mark days of youngsters with a stamp of positive hope,
You mark a day for the ones on seventh stage with all the grief.


Some wait for you to arrive,
Some do not want you to punch the clock.

Some take you to be an antidote,
For someone else you are just an antibody.


You lay a bed of roses,
but also lay a platform for funeral.

Some mark you and try to remember as long as they are,
You just become an anathema for others .

You bring victories to sports men,
You leave miseries to their opponents.

You put men at work,who builds a better world,
But you take men to war over places.

You show happiness in an infants innocent smile,
You show tears in eyes of people left behind.

You bring in fresh feel of a day,
You also bring tunes of cacophony.

Just as my teacher said,
You make me bright here,
You push someone else into dark somewhere else.

You and your mate keep running away,
we shall chase you down someday,
we shall chase you down someday.




Sakethursforever :)

The 3 C's CHANGE,CHILLARA,CHUTTA

There are hell a lot things that as a child one experiences and wonder why they happen. Then, as life goes on, one understands what is what and all other things. Well, one strange thing that is never in my jurisdiction of understanding capability is CHANGE. No I'm not talking about change that reflects things different . The change I'm addressing here is CHILLAR. Change of currency.
I always wonder why would a shop keeper gives you a feel of pouncing on to you and giving you one tight slap when ever you ask for change. He almost creates an atmosphere as if you asked whole of his money locker for free.
Time and again when ever I come across this, it makes me feel  ridiculous when the same person who denied giving change, readily offers you change when you borrow something. Say a 5  chocolate for  100.

It was quarter past 7 in the evening when I suddenly found my bike tyre flat. I was fortunate enough to get a place which could be of my help . But every story has an unfortunate side of it and here is what happened to me. He charged me 40 and I had two 10 notes and a 500 note. It was almost the end of business hours, which made me feel assured about the change. Then came an answer from the owner of the mechanic shed that he doesn't have an exchange for 500. Main road being a little more that a 100 meters and I began my walk with a hope of finding money which would set me and my bike free.

It was baker's store that I entered first. There were people in there with different requirements . As soon as the person at the counter looked at me with a confused expression and 500 note in hand, he probably understood what I wanted . Even before I said some thing his head began to swing from -ve X-axis to +ve X-axis. My next step was into a drug store. I asked him if I could get an exchange for my 500, he began to clip his expression  and said NO, as if he was an examiner who's not allowing me into exam for being late. It was as if I asked him a pizza at the drug store.

I stepped out and found my luck turned worse. It began to rain and it was bloody heavy. I found myself no less than a begger, begging in rain for change of course. Well, that is what globalisation can do. After couple of attempts in the rain, I started to enjoy the shower. I found a small pani puri wala down the empty road, which was already flooding. My instincts almost pulled me there, for obvious reasons though and not for change. Pani puri in rain is a yard short of heaven .

Had enough of it to satisfy myself and as I began to move, I wanted to try my luck there.  If you feel I had to restart my haunt, then that was something that never happened. To my surprise, or may be even yours, I got what I wanted, there at that small vendor. It was something that made my mouth wide open. The vendor quitely took out a packet, gave me my change, not before checking it twice.

One thing that I learnt from my little experience is that you call it CHANGE in english, CHUTTA in hindi and CHILLARA in telugu. Wonder if it is a co-incidence, the very word that troubled me,surprised me and amazed me starts off with the letter "C". Isn't it ironic.

I tought twice about everything that happened in the fable. But, yet I fail to understand two things.
Well if anyone can guess why they are the way they are, please let me know....


sakethursforever :)

Other than what it costs.

Last one week, took me to one of the city's most popular multiplex and also to a touring talkies. The feel of feeling my presence at a theater near by and the multiplex is quite comparable, and the comparison is quite fascinating.
And all that results in this blog post.....

Apart from a projector projecting light rays on to screen and sound box giving out the special effects and punch dialogues, and of course the ticket price  there are hell a lot of differences when you watch a movie in a multiplex and in a theater which in the by lanes of your little locality.

One thing which I did since my childhood out of curiosity is, trying to get a glimpse of the ticket counter as soon as I enter the theater . You need to get a ticket for the on going show, only then you will be allowed to park your vehicle. Even the audience wouldn't risk parking their vehicles before they get a ticket for them self. On contrary, when you intend to watch a movie in a multiplex, you will have to park your vehicle first and only then you are allowed  to look at the ticket counter. May be people are confident of getting a ticket because there are 5 to 6 screens at a multiplex.

Whole of the parking lot seems to look alike in a multiplex . And one need to wonder where you parked your  bike. Or even the cellar number may trouble you. You have got no such problem at the talkies. Only thing that bothers you is the safety of the bike. One wrongly parked vehicle can result in breaking the side indicator or rear view mirror of you bike.

One thing that made me nervous always was loosing the ticket. You have 5 members going for a movie you have same number of tickets in your hands.  You need to preserve all the 5 pieces of paper for getting into the theater. Multiplex are so much audience friendly that they just give you a piece of paper which has all the details printed, along with a cartoon, which they claim to be your photo.

Another dominating aspect that demands a draft here is posters . There wouldn't be as many posters
 of the movie that you have been too at the multiplex. One at the entrance and another at the notice board just beside door that leads you to your seat.

You also do not find many people at the multiplex talking about the movie. No matter if it is prior to the start of the show, at the interval or at the back end of the movie. You will get minimal response. Before the start of the movie people are mainly worried about the seats and the view of the screen that their seat would provide. The issue shits to combo packs that would serve them at the interval (coke+popcorn @ ***). People would only plan about spending some more time at the mall after the show. At the theaters that we are exposed to, prior to globalization, the talk would always circle around the movies,story, actors, performance, songs, gossips,highlights etc etc.

Another crazy thing that came to my sight is that, you don't come across people who would  be waiting at the doors for you to complete the show so that they can take over because the way out and the way in are not the same. So you can neither get a warning from someone about the credibility of the film nor can you help others, which happens at the end of every show at the small theaters .

In a multiplex the person coming to watch the movie is the boss. Or at least the management there makes us feel so (must be having something to do with business tactics). The management creates an environment there which says, "It is great that you have come to watch a movie here" . But here in the little theaters, the managements seems to feel great because of they have something that draws masses to them. You realise this more in the interval time when you go to a vendor selling soft drinks and popcorn.

Toilets at the multiplex are to be dealt with utmost care. First thing that bothers me are the clean mirrors. At the first go, you fail to get the navigation of the wash room. Then the sensors.You never know where there is a sensor and when & where water gets splashed. You have a drier just beside the wash basin. At the warm air comes out only for 5 sec and the machine gets terminated abruptly.  The person visiting for the first time wonders if he hasn't used the machine the way it to be used. At the theaters we are used to, there are neither clean nor are they as hitec . So ultimately one doesn't need to care for anything.

The feel of feeling the feel of a movie lies with us. Whether it is a touring talkies,  a five star theater , a pub with small screen or a multiplex, for me movie and my company are paramount. Entertainment is only thing that I get driven end of the day. Only then comes all the others.


sakethursforever :)