It had to happen

After a long time, I was reminded of the past. I was asked the questions I was uncomfortable with. I had no answers for sure. I felt guilty like I always did in the past. . It was something that will remain with me forever. I just hope things work out for the people I dissappointed.

To every pro-secular person

in India please, I urge you, please read this piece before you start saying BJP is not secular.

 

IPL

Call it a cash making cricket destroying match machine. But all is forgiven when you see the efforts of unknown cricketers getting notice for what they do at IPL. Today it was Paul Valthaty. He played a great innings and man was he happy! He might never play anything like this. But well it does not matter. Nobody can take away what he had done today! 

The debate

Well everybody is writing, talking, fighting, tweeting, blogging, facebooking and whatever it might be thats the latest fad about Anna Hazare's fast.

There are people who belive that holding the goivernment ransom by fasting is wrong. Probably it is, but there isn't a better way. So let it go on

There are people who argue that the bill is draconian and will lead to a group of vested interestes getting hold of it just as today the political process is subverted. Probably, but well yuou can't not try!

Overall, its a tough call to take sides and I am sceptical of what will happen. I don't feel all that rgeat about the bill and its implications. 

I find this piece by Niranjan Rajadakhsya a much more elgenat solution. Please go on with the Lok Pal bill but ensure that economic reforms go on so that every little guy does not have to go to a big guy to get things done (thats when corruption begins). Yes it is a slow painful process, not as "fame providing" or liberating as the outburst on corruption but probably more effective. Until we realize this is an option like (anantha Nageswaran mentions here) we will not make great progress.

Well thats just me !

 

Dileep

hits the nail on its head here!

Some excerpts

Two decades from now, you can expect a similar treatise from a middle-aged Indian. Only, this one will be called How Dhoni Ruined Everything. One fluid swing of the bat, the ball soaring into Mumbai's night and a foothold on cricket's highest peak. You can only go downhill from there.

What else can I say!

 

Sometimes all you

can say is there isn't enough justice in this world. Read this piece and you might agree with me

 

The winning moments and later

As I watch the celebrations again and again, it makes you realize this is something special, really special!