Team India: Reality or Mirage?

I write this blog as I seeth with anger, though personally I'm quite happy to bring my blog back to life, Team India have just lost their Captain and the team is now rudderless. Words can't aptly portray the pain and anger that I'm currently going through watching this team, supposedly the best-batting-lineup in the world, perform on the final day. No one expected us to win but not even our worst detractors would have expected us to come up with such a performance.

This team is supposed to be the best that our nation has produced in its 50-odd years of cricketing history. If this is the best, then sorry my fellow countryment, the day isn't long when the next-door bangla team would be in a similar position as to that of pakistan today.

As the cliche goes, 'Tough times separate the men from the boys'. Looks like there is plenty for 'Gangs' and his 'boys' to learn before they graduate to manhood.

PS: On the note of cliche, look up Amit Varma's Cricketing Cliche

The Environmental Factor?

I just came off lunch with a rather pesky question in mind. As my friend and I were twaddling while gobbling away the rather tame lunch, we veered off a topic of the general lethargy that has seeped into our life because of leading the high life of being a Software Techie. What he said next has enlightened me so much so as to bring back my almost-dead-and-buried-blog back to life. I would like to sum up the statement as, 'You are only as bright and engergetic as your work environment'. As much as I would like to dismiss this statement nonchalantly, taking a nostalgic view of my own life has led me to admire the profound meaning in the statement.

The more I revisit the statement matching it with experiences of my own as well as others, it seems rather strange but the statement does seem to be true.

Could this really be true or am i being fallacious?

Sordid State

I just read a rather depressing news on rediff. The title screams, rather sensationally, Four murders and 2 rapes in an hour. I was forced to open the page out of the natural inquistiveness that people - or rather should I say MEN, attach to these words. I know the very words that is running through the back of your mind - 'Arun, you filthy animal'. But, the material presented rather than arun turns out to be the filthy part. The page gives you nothing but a statistical non-partisan perspective of the crime graph in the country. Two things is what I poignantly remember from this report. One of them baffles me and other makes me sad:

The first one is that as per the crime report, pondicherry has reported the highest IPC crime in India. Having lived there during my student days, I cannot fathom Pondy - thatz how we call it down south, being called the crime capital of the country.

The other one was that the life of almost 3300 women have been snuffed out by their in-laws to satiate their greed for wealth. And, mind you this is the statistic only for 3 states - UP, Andhra & Bihar.

Even though we can dismiss the first as a typographical error the second can't be dismissed nonchalantly. This kind of statistical facts only reiterates the fact that though we are making giant strides economically, when it comes to real human development India is still very much a third-world country.