cricket----an emotional affair

India won the world cup in 1983 about a month before I was born. That means I have witnessed only one Indian world cup victory in my life so far. It happened in 20-20, the format which we had not been dreaming of winning but a world cup is a world cup after all.

Cricket is more than a game for most of the people in this country. Some define it as a religion here. For me it’s the greatest passion I have had. There have been many unforgettable memories that this wonderful passion has given me. One unpleasant occasion that I will never forget is that I flunked for the first time in my life in biology in std 9 becoz I cud nt stop myself from watching the India-pakistan match during the independence cup.

My relation with cricket goes back to as far as I can remember. I still remember mcgrath splitting the helmet of the young sachin tendulkar with a hostile bouncer in the 1992 world cup. How I thought we were going to be the first team to beat newzealand in that tournament which we didn’t. I remember following five world cups from 1992 to 2007, not to mention all the cricket I followed between those world cups. Like most of the Indians I also consoled myself with the brilliant performance my sachin to be the top scorer in 1996 and 2003 and the fact that we have always defeated Pakistan whenever we have played against them in the world cups. After the 20-20 quest we can say that we never lost to them as one match ended in a nail biting tie.

What has been happening in cricket is very comparable to how we have been growing as a nation in this world. We have for long been the nation that tend to overlook the failure of team and enjoy the records that some outstanding individuals hold. We people are not much bothered about loosing to aussies but we are really concerned about sachin’s record for most test centuries that is under threat from ricky ponting. What could be the reason for this attitude. Why the hell are we too docile to just accept the defeats and just feel happy with some sparkling individual performances? Maybe it has something to do with the history of our country. Maybe becoz of the lack of self belief.

Is all of this going to change. Will the young and vibrant India make its mark in cricket also like it has been doing in the world economy. We are being recognized as the emerging power in the world. The people responsible for that are the youngsters who are not afraid to spread their wings. Its such a delightful sight to see an aggressive sreeshant sledging hayden on the cricket field. He epitomises the attitude of today’s India. The future lies in the hand of these youngsters who have the appetite for success. They certainly need guidance from the stalwarts like sachin, saurav, rahul and anil but they need the freedom to play. The seniors should be willing to hand over the reigns to the future performers. I had a diary in which I wrote down all the scores of sachin for 4 continuous years. I worried about the time when he would have to retire. It will still be very sad to see him depart but there is no fear about the future after his departure.

Nobody missed the three biggies after we won the 20-20 world cup. Success is very sweet and the game is always bigger than the players. Indian fans wont complain about departure of their heroes if team India delights them with the taste of success more often. More importantly players like sachin and rahul deserve to leave like warnie and mcgrath did, at the top of their game. Let the question being asked at the time of their exit be why rather than why not……

MBA------Movies Bakar Aaram

staying up all nite for finishing the never ending assignments............giving presentations throughout the week........if u get to sleep more 5-6 hours in a day it would be luxury......this was supposed to be the mba in the coveted b-schools across the world i guess.....this is how i imagined the lifestyle is goin to be like when i entered NITIE bout 15 mnths before........
the experience thankfully however has been quite the opposite......except for the first module it has been like a vacation..........an idyllic campus surrounded by lakes.....greenery all around.......(this place could have been a resort instead).......cozy single rooms.....all these things make the stay here very comfortable indeed.....
unlike all the articles that the outer world reads about the grilling day in the life of an mba grad.....most of us spend the day sleepin for bout 9-10 hours.........if u hav large apetite for movies then u have plenty of time to see atleast 2 in a day(i guess thats y laptops are considered so vital for completing mba).......and most of the nite outs happen by the virtue of the great bakar sessions.....well it wud be unfair to say that there is nothin really to study here......pple who are really fond of studying can achieve a lot with the resources available.........but for the ones like me(believe me thr are plenty around here) there is no excuse to waste this precious time by studying......the best part is that the 75 % attendance rule only exists on paper........u can enjoy those morning sleeps after missing the lectures and at worse u end up doin an extra assignment at the end of the module.......not a bad trade off at all considering that the learning in that morning class is not worth the effort.....
5 mnths still left for this honeymoon to get over........and after that office will be back to haunt the life once again and this time that demon is goin to stay........

my first blog

i hav been planning to start writing on my blog for ages now......dnt hav the option to literally pen down my thots thanks to my pathetic hand writing so mr moudgil welcome to the world of blogs.........these long nites at NITIE offer plenty of time for the mind to meander to the past and dream about a wonderful future......

some nites pass by thinking about the wonderful yesteryears......about the moments that continue to bring smile......about the moments which i so desperately want to change by travellin back in time........the wonderful pple i knew then.........about all the crazy things without which life wud have been so boring.......i luk fwd to relive those moments in my writings....

on some nites i think about my future......my career........which makes me promise myself that i m goin to work hard from the next day......that ellusive next day.......shud be writin about that.

most of the nites are devoted to movies on my lappy........the most valuable thing i hav done in the past year.......the delight that a wonderful movie brings to me is comparable to all the other truly wonderful things in my life.....