This article is the one which was put up on www.cricinfo.com.
Wrote it after India's third loss of the tournament in the recently concluded One day Series in Sotuh Africa.
Well, to start off with let me tell you, this performance by the Indian team does not come as a surprise to me because time and again this has happened with Indian Cricket. Top players go out of form but the board is just not ready to replace some of them with in-form batsmen, no matter how good or bad they are. They not only that, they keep defending them. What happens then ?
These players take their place in the team for granted and their attitude is pathetic; to say the least. There is a lot of politics that goes in behind the selection of players. I feel due to the amount of money involved and the company's reputation of those who sponsor them being at stake they tend to keep those players in the team. That is the reason you see a complete lack of application by the batsmen and a totally senseless batting performance. They do not realise that they have been chosen out of a lot of 1 billion people and if they do not play even 1 good innings there are about 50 odd players ready to take their place and would give their heart and soul to play for the nation. It just seems like within a year of them being in the team they start forgetting that it's their priviledge to play for the country, they are not doing us a favour. This is the attitude that we fans hate and that is the reason we get angry, and our outrage is totally justified. They have no business to tell us that we are overreacting, I would take it if it comes from the mouth of say a Dravid or Bhajji or Kumble who I know are trying their level best and giving it their all, but not from players like Kaif, Raina, Agarkar or Sehwag, who seem to be not affected by the team's poor performance and are more interested in going for safari rides !!!!!
If this is the way it will go on then I feel we might need the services of Mr. Vengsarkar and Gavaskar very soon, who are already there in Africa, probably waiting for a test recall !!!!!!
Thursday, December 21, 2006
Saturday, December 16, 2006
The Xavier’s Experience
What I began with and where have reached now. It all started as a journey towards finding a meaning for my life. Engineering had changed my life completely, definitely for the worse. I was doing something I had no clue about and something I would never pursue later in life. God knows why then did I choose it in the beginning. Anyway all said and done life had taken a complete u-turn. I had being it all right from square one.
Three years of engineering all gone down the drain? Well, not quite. Had learnt from my mistakes, my decisions, my interests, all these had to be taken care of now and I would be wholly and solely responsible for my life from here onwards. There is no point in regretting later and blaming someone else for ruing my life.
This has become quite preachy and sad, quite unlike me, am sure my friends would vouch for this. Ok so here I was doing BMM, luckily got through to Xavier’s, my dream destination. May be I was supposed to come here sometime in my life hence when I failed to do so for my JC was expectedly disappointed and always thought that it would be my biggest loss. Luckily enough not my loss.
Luck was certainly in my favour because that year only the university decided to increase the seats for BMM to 20 per college and I got in only because of that, there’s more, it only happened that year, never before in its history nor anytime later were more than 60 students allowed to join BMM. I had joined this course thinking that it definitely is simpler than Engg and atleast I would be able to get an all clear here! I used to make fun of my sister who did the same course by calling is Bachelor of Moj Masti. That’s what it seemed to be in the beginning, what with all simple class projects and subjects like communications skills where you get a comprehension in your exam, now frankly tell me on what basis would you call that tough !!!!
And trust me after doing engineering you will find most stuff very simple, atleast it would seem simple. Soon years went by, semesters came and turned the tide. Soon I was in my second year and would be choosing my major next year. Reality struck me !!!!
I had to start racking my brains, put more thought in my projects and may be listen to a few smart people around and get some counseling, all in vain!
Finally decided to go with Advertising. So how did Xavier’s change me? Well I used to call myself “half an engineer and half a media man” in the second year. Now I refrain myself from using the word engineer even for the slightest of things. It gives me nightmares. I still wonder how I managed to scrape through 4-5 exams that I managed to pass. Now getting back to Xavier’s, firstly I got a first class in my very first semester. I can still recall the day I gave my first exam of semester 1 when my hands were shivering writing the exam. My confidence level was at its lowest, had all answers in my mind but my pen refused to budge. I somehow managed to write the answers and was so tensed as if I was giving some IIT entrance exam. Xavier’s gave me that confidence, that belief, the self belief was back, I had found people with similar interests and vastly talented, I still remember seeing the Xavier’s culture made me feel nice to be part of this prestigious college. It definitely has that something extra. People laying their guitars, groups of people singing in one corner, surrounded by all creative people gave me that good feeling, something I had never experienced before. It gave me international exposure.
I happened to be part of the group chosen by SIFE to go for the 3 month Internship in the USA. That was a life changing experience. It instilled great confidence in me.
Three years of engineering all gone down the drain? Well, not quite. Had learnt from my mistakes, my decisions, my interests, all these had to be taken care of now and I would be wholly and solely responsible for my life from here onwards. There is no point in regretting later and blaming someone else for ruing my life.
This has become quite preachy and sad, quite unlike me, am sure my friends would vouch for this. Ok so here I was doing BMM, luckily got through to Xavier’s, my dream destination. May be I was supposed to come here sometime in my life hence when I failed to do so for my JC was expectedly disappointed and always thought that it would be my biggest loss. Luckily enough not my loss.
Luck was certainly in my favour because that year only the university decided to increase the seats for BMM to 20 per college and I got in only because of that, there’s more, it only happened that year, never before in its history nor anytime later were more than 60 students allowed to join BMM. I had joined this course thinking that it definitely is simpler than Engg and atleast I would be able to get an all clear here! I used to make fun of my sister who did the same course by calling is Bachelor of Moj Masti. That’s what it seemed to be in the beginning, what with all simple class projects and subjects like communications skills where you get a comprehension in your exam, now frankly tell me on what basis would you call that tough !!!!
And trust me after doing engineering you will find most stuff very simple, atleast it would seem simple. Soon years went by, semesters came and turned the tide. Soon I was in my second year and would be choosing my major next year. Reality struck me !!!!
I had to start racking my brains, put more thought in my projects and may be listen to a few smart people around and get some counseling, all in vain!
Finally decided to go with Advertising. So how did Xavier’s change me? Well I used to call myself “half an engineer and half a media man” in the second year. Now I refrain myself from using the word engineer even for the slightest of things. It gives me nightmares. I still wonder how I managed to scrape through 4-5 exams that I managed to pass. Now getting back to Xavier’s, firstly I got a first class in my very first semester. I can still recall the day I gave my first exam of semester 1 when my hands were shivering writing the exam. My confidence level was at its lowest, had all answers in my mind but my pen refused to budge. I somehow managed to write the answers and was so tensed as if I was giving some IIT entrance exam. Xavier’s gave me that confidence, that belief, the self belief was back, I had found people with similar interests and vastly talented, I still remember seeing the Xavier’s culture made me feel nice to be part of this prestigious college. It definitely has that something extra. People laying their guitars, groups of people singing in one corner, surrounded by all creative people gave me that good feeling, something I had never experienced before. It gave me international exposure.
I happened to be part of the group chosen by SIFE to go for the 3 month Internship in the USA. That was a life changing experience. It instilled great confidence in me.
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