This director of ours has gone crazy!!....or is it our chief warden?.....(i think he looks the more psycho type)...THE NEW RULE in my "great" college is that you cannot leave the college without an ID card (even the library card won't do!) !Now i've lost my ID card and there's no way of getting out of the college!....How many more times am i going to climb and jump that 12 feet wall(even jails mus be having shorter walls!) at the back end of the college to get out.(making me feel like one of those pre-historical ancestors of ours) :P..And the latest rumours are that they are going to keep a guard to prevent people from jumping the wall.Anybody having contacts with the mafia are invited to take supari to finish our director(and the chief warden)!...I'm sure the students will be willing to contribute to this cause! :P
( Just In case the INGENIOUS idea 2 make a new ID card entered u'r mind let me tell you that we need to launch a FIR and make an affidavit..and even 4 dat i need 2 go out!!...All this for an identification card...that's right...it's CRIMINAL to lose the ID!)
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Funny
Hey people this was posted on one of the notice boards in my hostel.It's quite funny.
The timing has changed of attendance register due to winter season.News papper are reading only in main gate.don't carry in our room.
One of my teachers starts every new chapter with
"Here what is there" and this one's common "Don't talk in front of my back"
A notice that was put up when a person had lost his wallet
First it had the details.Then it ended it like this
Yaar agar kisi ne chori ki hai toh driving license aur ID card kisi aisi jagah pe rakh dena jahaan se mil jaye.Uska kya karoge yaar.Bhagwaan tumhara bhala kare :)
The timing has changed of attendance register due to winter season.News papper are reading only in main gate.don't carry in our room.
One of my teachers starts every new chapter with
"Here what is there" and this one's common "Don't talk in front of my back"
A notice that was put up when a person had lost his wallet
First it had the details.Then it ended it like this
Yaar agar kisi ne chori ki hai toh driving license aur ID card kisi aisi jagah pe rakh dena jahaan se mil jaye.Uska kya karoge yaar.Bhagwaan tumhara bhala kare :)
Federer vs Nadal :The race to be the best
Well, you may have deciphered my fascination for sport by now.Today i pick up a topic which is one of the greatest rivalries in contemporary sport.What is it about these nadal-federer epics that gets our adrenaline to flow and spines to tingle?Let's look at these champions one at at time.
Roger Federer's exploits are phenomenal,to say the least.237 weeks at the top.Nobody even close to him.He's arguably the greatest player the sport has ever seen.But how could a player who's the greatest ever have a record as poor as 6-13 against another player?(i'll come to this point a little later)
Now Rafa.The epitome of strength,stamina and ruthlessness on the court and a very humble person off it.The current no1 in the world and boy, he must be one real talent if he has managed to oust the great roger federer off his throne.Six grand slams by the age of 22.A prodigy.If form continues,who knows,he may leave even federer far behind.
The rivalry.
One thing i'd like to point out about the head to head is that these numbers provide a distorted image. Ten of their matches have been played on clay and nadal has a 9-1 record.Without doubt Nadal is leaps and bounds above federer on the red surface.Meanwhile Federer leads 5-4 on other surfaces.Another point i'd like to make is that early in his career nadal used to not make it past the early rounds in hard court tournaments .We would have probably seen a more narrow margin if there were more matches played on the other surfaces.
Out of 19 matches 5 of them have been 5 setters(many of the matches were best of 3).There's absolutely nothing to choose between the 2.And they produce their best tennis when they play each other.The Wimbledon Final of 2008 was hailed by many as the greatest game the sport has seen.I think federer is unfortunate to have played at the beginning of an era which has produced a player who will eventually end his career as the greatest clay courter ever.But nothing better could have happened for the sport.It has produced some of the most electrifying encounters and the two of them have taken tennis to a level which was unseen.Though we haven been fortunate enough to watch the likes of rod laver and bjorn borg, when we watch players like nadal and federer one is forced to think "Can there have been be players who were better than this?".
And the respect they have for each other is overwhelming.True connoisseurs of the game.
The next 2-3 years will probably determine where the two of them stand on the pedestal of history.One thing is definite.The battle is far from over.
Roger Federer's exploits are phenomenal,to say the least.237 weeks at the top.Nobody even close to him.He's arguably the greatest player the sport has ever seen.But how could a player who's the greatest ever have a record as poor as 6-13 against another player?(i'll come to this point a little later)
Now Rafa.The epitome of strength,stamina and ruthlessness on the court and a very humble person off it.The current no1 in the world and boy, he must be one real talent if he has managed to oust the great roger federer off his throne.Six grand slams by the age of 22.A prodigy.If form continues,who knows,he may leave even federer far behind.
The rivalry.
One thing i'd like to point out about the head to head is that these numbers provide a distorted image. Ten of their matches have been played on clay and nadal has a 9-1 record.Without doubt Nadal is leaps and bounds above federer on the red surface.Meanwhile Federer leads 5-4 on other surfaces.Another point i'd like to make is that early in his career nadal used to not make it past the early rounds in hard court tournaments .We would have probably seen a more narrow margin if there were more matches played on the other surfaces.
Out of 19 matches 5 of them have been 5 setters(many of the matches were best of 3).There's absolutely nothing to choose between the 2.And they produce their best tennis when they play each other.The Wimbledon Final of 2008 was hailed by many as the greatest game the sport has seen.I think federer is unfortunate to have played at the beginning of an era which has produced a player who will eventually end his career as the greatest clay courter ever.But nothing better could have happened for the sport.It has produced some of the most electrifying encounters and the two of them have taken tennis to a level which was unseen.Though we haven been fortunate enough to watch the likes of rod laver and bjorn borg, when we watch players like nadal and federer one is forced to think "Can there have been be players who were better than this?".
And the respect they have for each other is overwhelming.True connoisseurs of the game.
The next 2-3 years will probably determine where the two of them stand on the pedestal of history.One thing is definite.The battle is far from over.
Friday, May 8, 2009
NEWS CHANNELS - A NUISANCE???
Hey people this article is written by one of my friends.I'd invited the person concerned to post the article but the person chooses to be anonymous so m posting instead.Really good article.Do read it.
Gone is the age when the media restricted themselves to only reporting the daily events. Now, it is all about the implementation of the Right to Information Act....... in order to increase the public awareness....... but the question is – IS THE MEDIA USING THEIR RIGHTS TO CREATE AN AWARENESS?? Or has it converted to a just another money making business.... that isn't concerned with the truth or with justice anymore??? The media has launched their own bureau of investigations against crimes.... and the end result in most cases is that the accused is convicted even before the trial begins!
There have been cases where the intervention by the media has been a boon. Where the pure determination of the reporters to expose the truth helped to bring the victims to justice... The Jessica Lal murder case is one of those rare instances. And hands down to those journalists who helped to bring about these drastic change of events... but these incidents are outnumbered by cases in which the outcome has not only harmed the public but also the Indian Judiciary System.
How can the court give a fair hearing to an accused whose sentence has already been awarded? Not only does the judge's decision get biased, but the humiliation inflicted is unimaginable. Every person has the right to a fair hearing..... and unless convicted by the court, no individual is termed as CRIMINAL. The Aarushi murder case is a classic example....
The hype caused by the media diverted the minds of the public and the inefficiency of the police maybe due to the same. The mere idea of judging a 13 yr old deceased girl's character is revolting! But the media, not only broadcasted the statement of the police but also went hand in hand to spin theories about how the girl's character is at fault! When this incident was condemned by the Supreme Court, there wasn't a single channel that failed to broadcast the condemnation. But neither was there anyone to claim responsibility to the same or for that matter apologise to the grieving family!
If the Right to Information Act was implemented in the appropriate manner then perhaps the Nulclear Deal, which is so much talked about and debated, will become unambiguous to the public. How many of us know about the INDO-US Nuclear Deal??? Everyone must have heard about it... but how many know more than the fact that it is a Nuclear Deal between India and USA???
Maybe instead of reporting Deepika Padukone's new tattoo, the media will report more pressing matters! If only... Rakhi Sawant slapping her boyfriend on Valentine's day would help solve the nation's problems.. then perhaps there would be some point in repeating the same telecast over and over again!!!
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Slumdog Millionaire and India
Slumdog Millionaire.The movie which won 8 oscars.It bombed in india.Surprising?
Not really.I'm not among those who's going to question the movie.Rather,i have a few questions about the indian attitude towards the movie.
The movie didn't work with the masses.The language barrier could have been one reason.But even though there was a dubbing it still didn't work.The masses know exactly what danny boyle was trying to portray.They didn't want to see it.Simply because they'r all probably going through similar lives.The people want to see large palaces,people flying private airplanes and actresses dancing in semi-nude clothes in movies like K3G.So that,atleast temporarily, they can get out of their misery.Their reason,i would say,is justified.
What i fail to understand is the attitude of the middle class and the elite.There was widespread criticism from people like Arindham Chaudhury,Priyadarshan and many more.They claimed that the westerners get a sort of sadistic pleasure out of watching poor India.And they claimed that India is not like that anymore after the economic progress we are making in this century.I can't comment on the first part.But the latter is definitely not true.The real India is far from making progress.Everyone knows where India stands on the scale of Human Development Index.Our very own Arvind Adiga has shown us the stark reality of India in his book "The White Tiger'.The difference was that he was hailed (after all he won the booker's prize!).And he was labelled among those making India proud .So then why are we getting so hypocritical when an outsider(Danny Boyle) tells the "Indian story".Why does it pinch us so much.The reason is because deep down we all know that its the truth.The real India is not Marine Drive or Gurgaon.It's Dharavi.The real India is DEV KULI (Bihar),a village which belongs to a community of outcastes who,uptil 1 year ago,used to dine on rats!
Delhi is a great example.On one side you see a mall in every nook and corner,the development of the metro and roads which would look as good as any in the world.But if you watch Delhi from the trains when they approach Hazrat Nizhamuddin you know exactly what reality is.Old Delhi looks like a totally different planet.Behaving like poverty does not exist will not change the facts.700 million people in India still live on half a dollar per day.
And we see advertisements of "India Shining".The upper class and the politicians are less offended about the abject poverty that exists in India than being offended about the fact that an outsider has made a sinciere attempt(maybe not the best ever but atleast sinciere!) to tell the true story.How long are we going to turn the eye?
Not really.I'm not among those who's going to question the movie.Rather,i have a few questions about the indian attitude towards the movie.
The movie didn't work with the masses.The language barrier could have been one reason.But even though there was a dubbing it still didn't work.The masses know exactly what danny boyle was trying to portray.They didn't want to see it.Simply because they'r all probably going through similar lives.The people want to see large palaces,people flying private airplanes and actresses dancing in semi-nude clothes in movies like K3G.So that,atleast temporarily, they can get out of their misery.Their reason,i would say,is justified.
What i fail to understand is the attitude of the middle class and the elite.There was widespread criticism from people like Arindham Chaudhury,Priyadarshan and many more.They claimed that the westerners get a sort of sadistic pleasure out of watching poor India.And they claimed that India is not like that anymore after the economic progress we are making in this century.I can't comment on the first part.But the latter is definitely not true.The real India is far from making progress.Everyone knows where India stands on the scale of Human Development Index.Our very own Arvind Adiga has shown us the stark reality of India in his book "The White Tiger'.The difference was that he was hailed (after all he won the booker's prize!).And he was labelled among those making India proud .So then why are we getting so hypocritical when an outsider(Danny Boyle) tells the "Indian story".Why does it pinch us so much.The reason is because deep down we all know that its the truth.The real India is not Marine Drive or Gurgaon.It's Dharavi.The real India is DEV KULI (Bihar),a village which belongs to a community of outcastes who,uptil 1 year ago,used to dine on rats!
Delhi is a great example.On one side you see a mall in every nook and corner,the development of the metro and roads which would look as good as any in the world.But if you watch Delhi from the trains when they approach Hazrat Nizhamuddin you know exactly what reality is.Old Delhi looks like a totally different planet.Behaving like poverty does not exist will not change the facts.700 million people in India still live on half a dollar per day.
And we see advertisements of "India Shining".The upper class and the politicians are less offended about the abject poverty that exists in India than being offended about the fact that an outsider has made a sinciere attempt(maybe not the best ever but atleast sinciere!) to tell the true story.How long are we going to turn the eye?
Getting philosophical
Wandering through life all these years i realised i was searching for something.Something that can fill the void inside me.For long i have confused achievment and success with satisfaction.Everytime i set a new goal and work towards it.I hope that it will get me closer to the thing that i'm searching. But invariably it leaves me wanting for more.People said u'r born for a special purpose.Here a lack of purpose haunts me.Whatever i'm destined to do god please help me find the path .My search,i fear, will land me only in my grave and i will be counted among many other millions who were not able to hear their callin or do things that they would have loved to do.I fear that i may die unsatisfied and these days i fear that my worst fear may come true.
(These were actually a few lines written by my friend dhiraj and i edited them and added my own thoughts.In case you like it then i deserve the credit and in case you think its crap you know whom to blame :P.I thought i should post it because i associate with these lines a lot.N i'm sure there'll be many other confused people in this world who associate with a lack of purpose in life.Cheers to them!)
(These were actually a few lines written by my friend dhiraj and i edited them and added my own thoughts.In case you like it then i deserve the credit and in case you think its crap you know whom to blame :P.I thought i should post it because i associate with these lines a lot.N i'm sure there'll be many other confused people in this world who associate with a lack of purpose in life.Cheers to them!)
Champions league : Barcelona-Chelsea
Firstly what a match! And another perfect example of how a few seconds can change a game.And probably history too.
Semi final stage of the tournament and the eqation after the first leg at the Nou Camp was 0-0.The fact that Chelsea did not allow Barcelona to score from the home leg in itself was an achievment.Against a team that plays a brand of football unseen anywhere else in the world.A team which scored 6 goals at the bernabeau against real madrid in the following game.
Come stamford bridge.Essein scores a blinder in the 9th minute.Chelsea 1-0 up.Arguably the best goal of this year's champions league.You would undoubtedly need a piece of brilliance if u would have to beat a team of the calibre of barcelona.Chelsea defended valiantly for the next 90 minutes.Barcelona had the major share of possesion but did not have any clear cut opportunities.On the other hand chelsea had contoversial hand ball and penalty claims given against them.Drogba had 2 clear cut opportunities and despite his tremendous physical strength he will never be a world class striker unless he starts finishing such easy chances.The standard of refreeing was pathetic.Apart from the controversial claims,Eric Abidal did not deserve the red card(though he probably deserved to get it earlier for a tackle on drogba).These are all debatable issues and will remain so for quite a while.
Now we come to the climax.In the 93rd minutes iniesta scores a stunner.The score is 1-1 and barcelona go through to the final on the away goal rule.The bridge is silenced.As they say, anything can happen in football!What i want to discuss over here,though,is something else.
What hurt me the most about the game was that at the end of the game most of the commentators(and the articles i read online) claimed that barcelona deserved to go through.They claimed chelsea didn pass enough. blah blah.But i bet you that ,had that piece of magic not happened, atleast 3 quarters of these people would be hailing the valiant chelsea defence and would have claimed that chelsea deserved to go through.And i say why not.No other team has prevented this barcelona team from getting jus 1 shot at goal the whole match .No other team has kept them shut for 182 minutes throughout the entire season.Well barcelona may play pretty football but does it mean that they deserve to go through? They are going to play beautiful football almost everytime they enter the field.Does that mean that they deserve to win everytime?What's more important..entertaining or winning?..In this case the team that entertained ultimately triumphed but that does not happen everytime.Chelsea may not always have entertained but more often than not results go in their favour.Tonight was an exception.And a team like arsenal who have produced some of the most beautiful football in recent years end up winning almost zilch silverware.So i pose a food for thought question agin..whats more important..winning or entertaining?
Hopefully i'll get some reviews.And comments :)
Semi final stage of the tournament and the eqation after the first leg at the Nou Camp was 0-0.The fact that Chelsea did not allow Barcelona to score from the home leg in itself was an achievment.Against a team that plays a brand of football unseen anywhere else in the world.A team which scored 6 goals at the bernabeau against real madrid in the following game.
Come stamford bridge.Essein scores a blinder in the 9th minute.Chelsea 1-0 up.Arguably the best goal of this year's champions league.You would undoubtedly need a piece of brilliance if u would have to beat a team of the calibre of barcelona.Chelsea defended valiantly for the next 90 minutes.Barcelona had the major share of possesion but did not have any clear cut opportunities.On the other hand chelsea had contoversial hand ball and penalty claims given against them.Drogba had 2 clear cut opportunities and despite his tremendous physical strength he will never be a world class striker unless he starts finishing such easy chances.The standard of refreeing was pathetic.Apart from the controversial claims,Eric Abidal did not deserve the red card(though he probably deserved to get it earlier for a tackle on drogba).These are all debatable issues and will remain so for quite a while.
Now we come to the climax.In the 93rd minutes iniesta scores a stunner.The score is 1-1 and barcelona go through to the final on the away goal rule.The bridge is silenced.As they say, anything can happen in football!What i want to discuss over here,though,is something else.
What hurt me the most about the game was that at the end of the game most of the commentators(and the articles i read online) claimed that barcelona deserved to go through.They claimed chelsea didn pass enough. blah blah.But i bet you that ,had that piece of magic not happened, atleast 3 quarters of these people would be hailing the valiant chelsea defence and would have claimed that chelsea deserved to go through.And i say why not.No other team has prevented this barcelona team from getting jus 1 shot at goal the whole match .No other team has kept them shut for 182 minutes throughout the entire season.Well barcelona may play pretty football but does it mean that they deserve to go through? They are going to play beautiful football almost everytime they enter the field.Does that mean that they deserve to win everytime?What's more important..entertaining or winning?..In this case the team that entertained ultimately triumphed but that does not happen everytime.Chelsea may not always have entertained but more often than not results go in their favour.Tonight was an exception.And a team like arsenal who have produced some of the most beautiful football in recent years end up winning almost zilch silverware.So i pose a food for thought question agin..whats more important..winning or entertaining?
Hopefully i'll get some reviews.And comments :)
BHU cricket tour
This was an article written for my college
newsletter a year ago.Unfortunately the newsletter never got published
.So i thought i'll put it here.
The success story of BHU is one which very few of us will
forget.Firstly, for the majority of us, it was our first medal
for college..After a couple of tours in which we missed out
by losing close matches this was a sweet culmination to the
It began against JEC,Jabalpur.In an intense match with
lots of hooting we won convincingly by 7 wickets with
3 overs to spare.We were chasing a target of 129 in an
18 over match.I'd claimed 5 wickets but the stars of the
day were undoubtedly Yadav(45*) and Sudhanshu(35*)
who played sensible knocks at a critical point in the game.
The following game,against AEC,was a cakewalk.Abhishek
scored 45 and contributions from Varun,Yadav and
Sudhanshu saw us pile up 158 in the 20 over game.Our
opening bowlers Sahil and Varinder cleaned the
top-order and we had them all out for a paltry 52.
The semi-final was a game with a bit of history to it.
one year back,we had lost to YMCA Faridabad at the
same stage of the tournament on the last ball of the game.
This time around we scored 120 in 20 overs with good
contributions from everyone.Same team,same ground and
a similar situation but 1 year down the line the result was
different.We beat them by 20 runs.We had our vengeance.
We fielded extremely well and played with incredible team
spirit.
The final went like this.IT-BHU scored 145 in 25 overs.We
fell short by 3 runs.Blaming the partially biased umpiring
would be poor sportsmanship.I'd rather blame our batsmen
(including me)for poor shot selection at important moments
in the game.Second among 17 teams iscertainly respectable
but only we know how close we were from being the best.
Sport can hurt but life moves on.
Some things i'd like to mention which were essential elements
of our success are Varun's incredible keeping,Pradeep's high
catching,Sudhanshu's direct hits,Yadav's flat throws from 60
yards,Sanjeev's full-fledged dives and Yogesh' zeal.Our bench
strength deserves special mention for their tremendous and
untiring support.I may have missed a few names but we all
know that each and everyone of us had a vital role in making
this beautiful story happen.Sahil's leadership was inspiring to
say the least.He'd believed us at times when we had lost faith
in ourselves.You will be missed dearly sir
newsletter a year ago.Unfortunately the newsletter never got published
.So i thought i'll put it here.
The success story of BHU is one which very few of us will
forget.Firstly, for the majority of us, it was our first medal
for college..After a couple of tours in which we missed out
by losing close matches this was a sweet culmination to the
rigorous practice we had for a month after college began.
It began against JEC,Jabalpur.In an intense match with
lots of hooting we won convincingly by 7 wickets with
3 overs to spare.We were chasing a target of 129 in an
18 over match.I'd claimed 5 wickets but the stars of the
day were undoubtedly Yadav(45*) and Sudhanshu(35*)
who played sensible knocks at a critical point in the game.
The following game,against AEC,was a cakewalk.Abhishek
scored 45 and contributions from Varun,Yadav and
Sudhanshu saw us pile up 158 in the 20 over game.Our
opening bowlers Sahil and Varinder cleaned the
top-order and we had them all out for a paltry 52.
The semi-final was a game with a bit of history to it.
one year back,we had lost to YMCA Faridabad at the
same stage of the tournament on the last ball of the game.
This time around we scored 120 in 20 overs with good
contributions from everyone.Same team,same ground and
a similar situation but 1 year down the line the result was
different.We beat them by 20 runs.We had our vengeance.
We fielded extremely well and played with incredible team
spirit.
The final went like this.IT-BHU scored 145 in 25 overs.We
fell short by 3 runs.Blaming the partially biased umpiring
would be poor sportsmanship.I'd rather blame our batsmen
(including me)for poor shot selection at important moments
in the game.Second among 17 teams iscertainly respectable
but only we know how close we were from being the best.
Sport can hurt but life moves on.
Some things i'd like to mention which were essential elements
of our success are Varun's incredible keeping,Pradeep's high
catching,Sudhanshu's direct hits,Yadav's flat throws from 60
yards,Sanjeev's full-fledged dives and Yogesh' zeal.Our bench
strength deserves special mention for their tremendous and
untiring support.I may have missed a few names but we all
know that each and everyone of us had a vital role in making
this beautiful story happen.Sahil's leadership was inspiring to
say the least.He'd believed us at times when we had lost faith
in ourselves.You will be missed dearly sir
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