Love him, Hail him, Adore him…. No HATE him

Well the topic is very controversial and I can be badly beaten by the Cricket fans/lovers in India. Everybody must be wondering why, Sehwag has even brought the trophy home. Sehwag made the 4th December afternoon so interesting that stock brokers in my office switched from CNBC to Neo Sports, which is lethal for their profession. Sehwag missed the World record by a whisker. First batsman in the world to score three triple centuries in Test Matches. I always used to think, how an Indian player can create glory under the shadow of Sachin Tendulkar. Sehwag has clearly taught us the way to be different.

Sehwag is born with sheer wit and determination to hit every ball offered to him. If he is not able too, he will be resting in the dressing room after scoring a quickie of 30-40. On 4th December, Sehwag forgot he was playing in a Test Match. His batting style seemed as if he is playing in an extended T20 match. Do you think this is healthy for the game in the long run? People idolized Sachin Tendulkar and wanted to become one now if they start wishing and playing Sehwag style, it will kill the game. Nobody would want to become bowler.

I felt pity for the Sri Lankan bowlers besides the joy of watching Sehwag. It was like you are struggling, stumbling at the work, after putting days and nights together for a presentation and all you are getting is a volley of abusing and screaming from your boss from morning till evening without any fault of yours’. The person says I don’t wish to work, I am off for the day. I don’t wish to be respected, it’s ok if you yell at me but don’t abuse me, just show a little amount of courtesy.

T20 is great, esp. IPL. It has created an entertainment format of Cricket. It is offering more first class players to showcase their talent and earn a livelihood. But on the hindsight, it is going to hurt the sporting format. English County players say early start in T20 by Indians has taken their game to a different level. But may need to bring one more format favouring the bowlers. We need bowlers. Practically iconic bowlers have ceased to exist, esp. the likes of Courtney Walsh, Glenn Mcgrath, Curtly Ambrose, Shane Warne. Of course, there were great’s like marshalls, richard’s, merchants, engineers and vishwanath’s in earlier times of cricket. We may not find any in future with the present level of progession of the game.

Make friends not enemy but Just Keep One Enemy – America

These thoughts are wavering in my mind looking at the condition of our neighboring nation - PAKISTAN

I just feel and believe that no country should be friend with USA. Or rather I wish I should be alive the day, USA will no longer be USA and is split into various states as separate nations. It is indeed a big lesson for the nations of the world to think how USA will look like and how much it will have then, what the identity of USA will be like. Americans may not realize this but they need to think in hindsight how much they have taken for world, for selling their arms, for ensuring fuel is in abundance in their nation, to make dollar a global currency and to make itself the only self-confessed super power nation of the world.

This is one of the reasons, I love Congress, come what may, 60 years past independence, they have not allowed anybody to divide India and kept India intact, despite so much of communal hatred and riots spilling against the minorities in some part of the country or the other. A nation loses its belief, identity, culture, history if it is broken into parts. Some of my Muslim friends across the border in Pakistan, hail Quaid-e-Azam for giving them a separate land. But I would rebuke him, he allowed a glorious land called India to be broken into pieces. In a way, Gandhi or Bapu as people lovingly call him is also responsible.

In Pakistan’s case, their high headed military guerillas who have always been treated like son-in-law and their archaic policies have ruined the nation. They have brought the nation on the brinks of the disaster, rather Pakistan will be termed as a disaster. They never realized while chasing the Westerners that it is going to meet the same fate as Afghanistan or may be worse. They are fighting their own people in their own land, what worse can happen to a person, when he starts fighting with his children or his children backfire him. He can never find peace, come what may. Same is the case with Pakistan, when you teach your child all the notorious and ill-willed activities. Your son is going to come and experiment the same, when he becomes intolerable.

Who knows whether Taliban exists or not in Swat Valley? And even if they exist, it is unfortunately affecting the people of Pakistan. Thousands and thousands of them have to flee from their own land and become refugee on their own land. What more unfortunate can happen to a person?

All the disasters done by Gen. Pervez Musharraf and his predecessors are going to backfire Pakistan. Pakistan knows what USA does to its allies, a live case in front of them are neighbours, Afghanistan. Use somebody when the occasion and destroy him when the motive is absolved. Same will happen with the Pakistan. Pakistan is begging in front of America for every billion dollars.

The great American dream lives and survives. What that dream is? Please figure it out.

But I'd say one thing, make love not peace.