I think

talent should be the primary criterion for selecting a coach. If the coach can communicate then whether s/he is bilingual does not matter. To impose a langauage as prerequisite is flawed and will result in a team that will be inferior to a team developed without such restrictions. Same is the case with most of the research conducted in Quebec agencies. In their pursuit of imposing French langauge the provincial organizations settle for less. Is it good for the province, well ask that question yourself!

A nice

generational tumult many cricket fans can appreciate

For me Azhar was it for a long time and then it happenned and cricket seemed irrelevant. Ok for a small time. But then slowly i mended my broken heart and got back to watching cricket. Sachin in the mean time went from strength to strength oftne alone. Then Dravid, Laxman and Ganguly along with Kumble emerged. We were getting there. Then enters Sehwag and rest as they say is history. I fall back in love with cricket, pure love mind you. But once these giants retire it will be hard to watch cricket with thge same gusto or probably someone else will come by!

Anyway.

People opposing Fdi in retail plz read this

Views | Why opposition to opening up retail is elitist - Views

Correction

Two days of corrections! Man was it long or what. 110 papers. 

One thing I realized is I hate giving an easy paper. I just hope I can set papers that are fun to correct. 

Lets see how that goes!

Monga says it so well

here!

What separates Virender Sehwag from everyone else is that he plays each ball on its merit, and usually thinks each ball merits a boundary. That is why it will be no surprise if he crosses the 200-run mark in ODIs again

 

I watched the highlights; Some of the shots he played were unbelievable, especially the ones between thirdman and cover where he was slicing the ball at the last moment from in front of the stumps. These are incredibly hard shots to play! The risk involved is so high that statistically speaking he shouldn't be making such high scores! That is what makes him a genius! Its a privlige to watch such innings!

Tripathi puts it so well

here!

 

India briefly flirted with such a system during the emergency (1975-1977). Mark Tully was the India correspondent of the British Broadcasting Corp. at that time. Dev Anand, who died on Sunday, was then in his early 50s, and Tully interviewed him because he was known to have strong political views. Tully asked Anand what he thought about the country’s political situation. Anand replied: “I deplore it in all its aspects.” Tully paused his recorder and asked Anand if he wished to continue—few people dared to speak out against Indira Gandhi in those days. Anand replied: “You asked me a question. I gave you an answer. What you do with it is up to you.”

In that dark period, people like Anand kept the flame of freedom alive, reminding us that India’s greatness lay in its democracy: there was never “too much” of it. China or Malaysia jails outspoken people like Anand. India treasures them, honours them, and like in Anand’s case, mourns them. The Facebook page critical of Sonia Gandhi may be stupid and revolting. But trying to get companies to remove it and to look out for other “offensive” or “insulting” materials is unacceptable.

 

Will sibal get it?

Views | Kapil Sibal vs the internet - Views

Well, with the stupid decisions he has taken in the recent years i don't expect him to!

Please do read this

if you want to learn about FDI in retail

What every political party in India is doing is ridiculous and downright bad for India!

Destructive al right

Piece by nageswaran.
Self-destructive

Well put sir.

Views | Retail FDI: Evenly distributed shame - Views

When will the darker times in terms of policy making end!

Some real honest opinions from Mukul on The hundredth Hundred

I believe that Tendulkar has a substantial claim to being considered the greatest Test and one-day batsman of his generation. This is a very large achievement with which he (and we) must be content. We don't need gild this lily with trashy "statistics". To use "a hundred hundreds" to winch Tendulkar up onto a pedestal is to disrespect the great players he has played alongside. Consider Jacques Kallis, who after 16 years at the top has a Test batting average higher than Tendulkar's. He also has 271 Test wickets to Tendulkar's 45, and 169 catches to Tendulkar's 110. If I was a determined South African fan looking for numbers to prove that my man was the best, I could legitimately argue that you would need to merge Sachin Tendulkar with Zaheer Khan to come up with Jacques Kallis. Zaheer, India's best strike bowler for years, has 273 wickets, barely more than Kallis. Do these numbers bear out the claim that Kallis is the more significant player? No they don't, because greatness in cricket can't always be boiled down to numbers - which Tendulkar's cheerleaders would do well to remember.

The most worrying thing of all is that the Little Master seems to have drunk his own KoolAid. For the last several innings he has looked weighed down by the pressure of this non-event. Someone should whisper in his ear that he is a great man, that this absurd quest is beneath him. If he does get a hundred the next time he plays a Test innings, he ought to see it as an oblique salute to Bradman, not an ersatz tribute to himself. There is no 100th hundred to be had: the whole, in this case, is less than the sum of its parts.

Full piece here