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flag and the hypocrite(3)

"Our courts are starved of cases. The lawyers and the judges have no work and are itching for some case/work so that they do some justice to the law courses that they have studied and the government which is paying them good salaries and showering them with goodies."

How I wish this were to be true.
A non-bailable warrant has been slapped against cine-actor Aamir Khan for allegedly "dis-respecting" the national flag. Cases should be filed against the people who file such un-wanted cases at the first place. If they are really worried, let them do something for the people of the country which the flag represents. One can do some charity work with the money spent in the court for such stupid cases.

That's the real respect to the flag.

ODIs , T20 and racism

Finally I watched a T20 game. India-Australia in Mumbai. And it was interesting. But nowhere equivalent to Test cricket. Or for that matter ODIs. Indians do play well in patches. And they seem to play well in 20 overs - as seen in the ODIs against Australia as well. They picked up early wickets and put Australian team under pressure, only to let the Aussies loose in the last 10. They batted well to post decently good totals in the first 20 overs, but by then used to lose 4-5 wickets. This seems to make them fit to be called T20 cricket champions.
However, the ODIs continue to be the best shorter version of the game for me. It is certainly not predictive in nature as claimed by some idiots. Along with the Indo-Australia ODI series, 5 match England-SriLanka ODI series was also played out in Srilanka. First match of this series was won easily by SriLanka, thereby allowing these "experts" to dismiss the ODI format as repetitive and predictable. Let the "experts" say whatever they want to - England won the series 3-2 against everyone's expectations. If this is not the proof enough of uncertanities of ODIs, whatelse is ?

There is another aspect which made quite a news during the Future cup matches between India and Australia - "racism" against Andrew Symonds. I dont really understand why a big fuss was made out of it. Symonds certainly is one of the most gifted cricketers of all time. Apart from cricketing skills, he is gifted also in using his vocabulary skills against the opposite team members. He is one of the most vocal players anybody would find in a cricket playground who makes no hesitation is abusing his competitors. This certainly attracts the attention of the crowd in India who like to give it back as good as they percieve it ought to be done. The monkey chants of Mumbai crowd must be taken as it is and not to be seen with racist angle. Even as saying this, I am not in anyway defending the section of the crowd behaviour which was not good by any standards. I was quite shocked to read an article which read that Symonds who is of Carribean roots, was smashing the Indian bowlers thereby rendering the crowd to do mischief. If one were to go by this argument, Indians should have jeered at many of the SriLankan cricketers. Sanath Jayasuriya, quite dark as far as the colour of his skin goes, is one of the greatest ODI players ever and has hit the Indian bowlers possibly like no other player has ever done. Yet he is a respected cricketer in India. His on-field behaviour is something that the likes of Symonds should try to emulate and then see if Indian crowds still make monkey chants at him or racist remarks ( like his teammate Darren Lehmann ??). There is a limit to double standards.

Keep "left"

After a much pulling and pushing between Cong. & the "Communists", it is the Cong led Govt of India which has finally gave in to the "Left" by putting the nuclear agreement with US on cold storage. The agreement, also termed as a "deal" by the communists( as if its an under the table kick-back of sorts), was contentious in any case and was it really beneficial for India is something that I didnot understand. Comprehending the words in 123 Agreement & Hyde Act was beyond my capacity. However, I did take our honourable, nice Mr.PM who is now left as a nice PM ,(just nice) at face value and therefore thought of the agreement as being beneficial to us.

It causes immense pain for me to see the moronic communists lead the Government of India without taking any responsibilities. If they want to have India's foreign policy to be decided as per their beliefs, they must join the Government and am sure Cong would be more than willing to accommodate them in the Cabinet. However, all they do want to see is the country going back to medieval ages and the Congress getting all the flak for the same.

Sprinters or druggists ?

Ben Johnson, Konstantenis Kantaris , Thanaou, Linford Christie, Marion Jones..... its an endless list(I deliberately didnot add Indians in this list). All those "speedsters" are nothing but druggists. And it is these very people who are supposed to have raised the spirits of their respective nation, making them proud (?).

When Jones won 5 medals(inclusive of being known as the fastest woman in the world) in 2000 olympics, she was a person of reverence for me. Also 2000 was a tough year - I was in look for inspiration & I took inspiration from whoever did achieve extraordinary success against all odds/difficulties.

Today Asfa Powell can run 100 mts in 9.77 seconds - but it hardly inspires me. I have no doubt whatsoever in my mind that its impossible for a normal human to run 100 mts in such blinding speeds. And to me its clear that the likes of Carl Lewis were cheats.

I have stopped watching athletics - its a show of drug cheats. There are much better games where steroids donot enhance the performance.

flag and the hypocrite(2)

Just as if to prove the point, a case has been filed against Indian cricket team in a local court for "disrespecting" the tricolour.

Communists & double standards

Indian communists always insisted on having the "moral high ground" in the politics and vowed to fight "communalism" & "imperialism". By imperialism, they only mean US. Even as China is fast growing and are exploiting the resources in Africa by promising grants to the governments there, Indian communists are simply blind. To them, China is an ideal, model government which is there to safeguard the world from "imperialist" regimes like US.

It was baffling and ( & ironically ridiculing themselves) to see Prakash Karat saying Bush doesnot have a big mandate even in US. This grub, the infernal Karat has never had the courage to face the electorate, nor his party has any base outside Bengal, Kerala & Tripura. Even more ridiculous it is when the people who say so belong to RSP, USP( Unwitting Socialist Party), BCP( Blind Communist Party) , CPI( Marxist Leninist Stalinist Maoist Deng XiaoPingist Zhou Enlaist faction) etc etc...