I spend almost 10 hours a day at office that includes my commuting time, seven to eight hours in sleeping. With remaining 6 to 7 hours, I spend with my family. Not to mention the daily routines take away 1 to 2 hours in this. No doubt my wife screams at me whenever she finds me sitting in front of my PC.
I just get hooked onto it. She claims, “I don’t know how many of them are reading it or even having a glance at it! You are sitting at it at the cost of your family interests!” She may be right however, every man has a bad characteristic in him and I have the weak point of sitting at net for hours! (Whichever that was left over)
Writing a blog is the easiest thing ever one had but I beg to differ. I always wanted to be different and preferred to convey a message across irrespective some one reading it or not!
I was going through the news of bidding for cricket players in its new avtar of IPL. I remember during my younger days, Kerry Packer was described as the villain of cricket as he pulled all the talent for money. Now the very version of Packer is bringing in lots of money for all cricket boards. Cricket was slowly taking the form of a baseball in the form of 20-20 cricket and the style of selecting teams now have emulated the rugby or soccer teams.
While the vulgar display of money was criticized from nook and corner, I had a different opinion on this. My kid was reading a story of slaves being sold in older days! Just listen through my ears, Are our cricketers are slaves? If so, whose slaves? If some one is paying an hefty sum to a single person, will he win matches single handedly (can he bowl, bat and keep wickets)? What is the role of teams then? If he did not perform will he pay back this money? From where this money will be collected – of course stupid public!
India Cements’ Srinivasan paid whopping Rs 6 crore for Dhoni but did not think it wise to have another ground similar to Chepauk in entire Tamilnadu or Pondicherry! It is the irony of Indian cricket. Had these gentlemen pooled in these hefty sum to build a sports academy all over India, that would have done a world of good to Indian sports but they are not here to encourage sports but to mint money!
Heart-burning news is the comment of Raj Thackrey. His comments convey it implicitly that politicians are above law and so are their activities. Imagine what will happen if these people were made to write laws! When the world is shrinking to a size of ball, Europe is considering treating it as a state instead of multi-nations; we are talking of multi nations despite being a single state. What is the difference between the Kashmiri or Assamese terrorists who demand a separate state and these Thackreys? Can they be allowed to contest elections?
Raj has drawn a parallel with Rath Yatra. Rath yatra was meant to mobilize a movement – to build a temple for Shri Ram on the place he was believed to be born. It was not meant to drive any Indians out of their place in the name of religion, caste, creed or regionalism! What Raj did was a crime! Now Bal Thackrey says Maharashtrians were tolerant enough that they acknowledged a Kannadiga Governor!
What a favor extended by them? Aren’t we in India? Did he ever give a thought that all non-maharashtrians got out of this state and vice-versa, what will happen to this state? Maharashtra slipping from the rankings of industrialization is attributed to the lazy attitude of Maharashtrians and their costly labor. Irony is that they are not realizing and are doing politics in this name!
Lalu has presented a budget. Good one as expected that too in a year when elections are expected around the corner! However, his gimmicks are getting exposed. All his fare cuts in selected trains (the list is yet to be finalized) and fare cut in second class (read not sleepers) are only superfluous. In no way, this is helpful to the middle-class people who used them the most!
It is not a great deal to show profits on books for a monopoly firm that has no competition. Still he is different because his predecessors were unable to do even this. As usual, Lalu has thrown light only on the populist measures and not on the technical part of it. He has no answers for the delayed projects (that would have saved us crores of rupees lost), clean stations, ticket-less traveling in northern part of India, capacity improvement, ex-gratia to accident victims (at tax payers money), etc., Good is that he had at the least raked up the public-private participation. When the world is moving fast at the pace of 300kmph, Indian trains still run at the speed of 40kmph. When will we improve these? What is the status of unmanned railway gates? Unless someone throw light on these issues, we cannot accept Lalu as a success.
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