What to write???

Well I was thinking to pen my thoughts this time on the awesome last night that we spent in MDI...but something happened today which swerved my thoughts....

Its none other than the great little master blaster...I don't know what adjectives to put behind his name since each one would demean his stature...Some how I feel lucky to have watched the entire match on television, though I envy people in Gwalior who got the opportunity to watch it live in front of them...I assume all those people who have missed the match, have missed a treasureable moment of their lifetime....

Great great innings....though i liked the entire innings but the way he played post his century, he reminded of the old Sachin, the sachin of 90s..i don't have words and enough space to explicitly tell the greatness of the innings and hence i will save myself from the pain of doing the same...

This was the only record that was untouched by the great man which was true to his caliber.. and yet another step towards CENTURY OF CENTURIES....keep going man....

Kudos to others as well especially Kartik who played a superb innings and to Pathan and Dhoni as well....Ohh this reminds me of the powerful shots hit by him and then Ravi Shastri's comment on that - "Everyone has to keep an eye on the ball, even if he is a spectator"...

Lets c how our bowlers perform...since we can't forget the fact that it was the same South African team which defeated the undefeatable champions, the Aussies, by making 434....

Here is a list of comments on fb....

1) To all those critics who ever doubted SAchin's capability to score at this age:

2) There should be a wine by the name of "Sachin"; gets better with Age and makes everyone die for one glimpse of his performance !!! Cheers !!

3) Today i saw God playing with mortals.....it was ecstacy.....thought about one dialogue from the movie trainspotting.."think about the best orgasm u ever had, multiply it by 1000 times n still u can't beat this shit" perchance same i can say today.....:)

4) To Sachin, who made a difference, who made me his fan, who gave me something to cheer, To you sachin - I bow to thee

5) d moment u think that v hav seen ol d great innings of tendulkar.. d vry next moment he proves u wrong...hats off....

6) sachin 200 ... i think that purpose of my life is fulfilled .. :) :)

7) There is nothing enthralling about it. He was the only one who deserved it...He got it..off course without a runner..:) It is my fortune to see every ball of that inning.

8) For the first time in my life, I envy people in Gwalior...they got the opportunity to witness the great man playing an AWESOME innings....well done...he truly deserved yet another record.....

9) speechless n splendid 200..thanks sachin..

10) i am witnessing God today..:)...am blessed..:)..

and many more.....

Commonwealth games - Are We READY???

Delhi is hosting the commonwealth games 2010 and its almost final to the date. But have the preparations been up to date. Couple of days back I went through a poll in a leading daily asking the readers whether India can successfully host the event, and majority said no (the exact percentage saying no was somewhere near 60%). Are they pessimists or they are not patriotic or they don't want India to host the event??? I guess nothing among them is true.

Lets assume India can successfully host the event. What will happen after that???

Agreed that this will be a great opportunity for the tourism industry to flourish and expose the country to many new people. But the aftermaths are much more worse than the advantages. Lets get to them one by one.

A lot of money is spent on infrastructure. Its good that lots of underpasses, flyovers and metro routes are constructed for smooth transportation. But along with them as many as 7 new Air Traffic Control towers are proposed. Also a lot of companies are sensing an opportunity and have planned to raise world class hotels to project the brand India in front of GUESTS. But what will happen after the games. Who will use these world class facilities???

The current occupancy levels in the hotels is much below what is seen in many tourist countries of the world and with more hotels coming up, it will plummet. Also the maintenance cost incurred afterwards will be much higher than the revenue they will earn.

These events are attracting a lot of energy. Delhi is already short of power and water and these events demand hell lot of both of these precious gems. Are the people of Delhi ready to sacrifice because definitely there will be shortage, if not now then after the event.

Security of the guests is an issue. I guess this is the biggest one. With increasing terrorist attacks in the country, this is a great opportunity for the terrorists to give the country a huge blow. If such a thing happens, this will have a great impact on the relationships with other nations.

In the corner of my mind, there was this cultural issue related with the habit of foreigners. They drink a lot and during the events we will clearly see many of them drinking on roads in public. What impact that will have on our children???

There may be many more such pathetic affects which have been buried under the ecstasy of holding the event and which have been overlooked but the aftermaths have to be faced by us....
So are we READY........

My friend needs yet another loan!!!

My friend needs an advice. Actually he has taken a lot of loan and there are lots of members in his family. His income is not sufficient to run the family expenses and hence he has to take loans. Even to repay his installments, he has to take fresh loans. The principal and interest are both increasing and he his taking fresh loans to repay the earlier ones. This is a vicious circle my friend is in.

You must be guessing who this friend of mine can be. He is known to everyone of us. Yes, it is the GOVERNMENT of India.

This union budget clearly shows how much GoI cares about the members of its family. But is the loan money meant to be distributed like this. The revenue as per the budget is 600 thousand crores and we have spent much much more than this and for this the Govt. needs to take a fresh loan of 400 thousand crore which is almost 3 times what was in 2004.

Now lets see that where the money is spent. More than 75% of the expenses are dedicated to defense and subsidies, and the daily expenses of the functioning of the GoI. After all these, whatever little is left goes to the so called investment in development for which there is always a chaos, and which in the end is rendered unproductive.

Our defense expenses have grown by almost 50% in the last 5 years and is around 140 thousand crore which is 15 times more than the education budget. Why are we comparing ourselves to USA when it comes to the defense budget. Isn't it better to maintain good relations with our neighbours and hence drastically reduce this defense expense. Isn't it better to provide employment to people through different productive schemes rather than distributing rice and wheat free of cost as subsidies.

The govt. should quit the areas where it is not needed and hence try to reduce the expenses. It is taking loans and doing unwanted stuff as if it was its last day and it can take any amount of loan without even caring for repayment. If the situation continues to be like this, then the day is not far when the burden of principal and interest will increase so many folds that the government has to reduce the development rate and the inflation will increase to an extent that it will become very difficult for people like us to survive.