Two young men

played innings of sheer class against the visiting Australians. Is this a sign of things to come? I hope so!

Talking openly

There are times when I am scared I reveal a lot more than what is acceptable. Well, that is how I am. Can't help it. Especially now that I am getting old!

India

taking a step towards legalizing homosexuality? Well, not that fast. There is a court hearing going on attempting to legalize homosexuality. In India, if you declare you are gay you could face a life sentence. According to me, thats ridiculous. It is up to the individual to decide what he wants to do with his sex life. It is not for the government to set rules. So I hope the freedom to individual will be restored!

Isn't this

the problem for most people on this planet?

"We'd love to laugh at America but we're too darn scared"
Very well put. See here for full piece

Samir Chopra give his view

on why India - Australia rivalry is up there!

Have to say its funny!

To add to my already

bright start to the day

This is what Shane Warne has to say about My dude Sehwag (Sehwag ranks 35 in the all time list of Warne)

Virender Sehwag is one of my favourite batsmen in world cricket today and one of my favourite personalities. This is a guy I would pay to watch. All right, he could get caught at third man to a big slash or a top edge in the first or second over, but he could just as easily bat for an hour in a way unmatched by anybody else in the world. You take pot luck with Sehwag, although the fact that he averages more than 50 in Test cricket shows that his style pays off for him more often than it does for most other batsmen with the same approach. Only Don Bradman and Brian Lara can match his achievement of scoring two triple-centuries in Test cricket, and the second of Sehwag's, against South Africa, came at better than a run a ball.

Off the field, I find him to be a really funny guy. Jeremy Snape told me a great story about him while we were working together in the Indian Premier League. Sehwag and Snape were batting for Leicestershire against Middlesex when Abdul Razzaq started reverse swinging the ball in the way that the Pakistan bowlers do.

Sehwag came up to Snape and said: “We must lose this ball. I have a plan.” Next over, he whacked that ball clean out of the ground, forcing the umpires to pick another from the box that would obviously not reverse straight away. To which Sehwag said: “We are all right for one hour.” Smart, I say.

Simply too good. To read the full list its here

Is this

an attempt, on the part of the economic academicians, to take some responsibility for being unable to predict the market collapse? Separate groups of reputed ones have sent letter urging congress to accept/reject the bail-out proposal. Seems something like that to me!