Defending Dhoni

Finally the defending champions are out of the T20 world cup. Were u like shocked when this happened? Don’t be so silly come on, if you knew the mentality of Indian cricketers you would have easily guessed this outcome. They had been rolling in money since IPL and we can also blame the Indian newspapers for portraying them as unbeatable champions of this format. Did u mark one thing, when the national anthem of Ireland was going on they were actually clinging to each other and the Indians had been standing like a feet apart from each other. This clearly showed the lack of unity in the Indian team. I totally agree that it was a winning combination but it totally failed to perform

Dhoni had been taking all the credit of Indian team performing so well, now its time Mr. Ranchi to accept a few bitter words from die hard Indian fans. His story is actually a fairy tale and I don’t know how many kilograms of luck did he get and from where. I think now he is actually running out of that. I had always been a Yuvraj fan and I never liked when Dhoni was given the captaincy, he certainly doesn’t deserve it. Just because some Indian newspapers called him “Captain Cool” he actually thought all his random experimenting and gambling would pay off.

Its better we call Rahul Dravid back as the captain atleast he could score run a ball.! This guy has been screwing up the Indian team royally, 11 runs out of 22 balls with a strike rate of 50.0 what the hell was that. Even VVS Laxman would have played faster than him. Has he got a bat in his hand or it’s a broom? He fails to connect each and every damn shot. Commentators don’t comment on his batting style but they have all the time to analyze the good and the bad shots by newbies. What is so special about Dhoni, the only thing WAS, was some really amazing packets of luck which have now been exhausted, I think captaincy has taken a toll on him. This may be due to the retirement of ANIL KUMBLE form the test format which has made DHONI the captain of tests, so MR DHONI are you practicing for those test matches?

I agree that Indian batting would have deteriorated due to change in playing conditions but even the fielding changes due to the weather conditions or what? Yes, may be the ball would have been turning a lot on the field I guess! There were hardly any fielding attempts that were worth appreciating. These people are like MUJRA dancers they perform well only if you throw hard cash at them, they just need to roll in wealth. Do they even care for their country, their fans and their expectations? I don’t mean that they should winn the match but they should play to win atleast. I could not observe that winning spirit anywhere.

Anyways Mr Dhoni and 11 get your asses back to Indian so that BCCI doesn’t waste more money on your 5 star hotel stays. Even when Indian was on the verge of losing I could see the Indian dressing room full of smiles and I know the reason, they actually wanted to go shopping and buy those flashy glares like Kevin peiterson and Chris Gayle so that they would have some better luck next time.

UNLUCK BY CHOICE

I’ve been very unfortunate not to have a good fortune. There is a very famous quote in hindi which says you hit an axe on your own foot.

A very remarkable and funny incident took place this Saturday. I was supposed to be meeting up with an old friend of mine. I had a very busy day at college so I thought I would drop the idea of meeting him, but then when something wrong is going to occur God makes sure that it happens.! This friend of mine studies in welingkar college, matunga, which is around 20 minutes from my college if I take a train and yes, I took a train( I totally repent it). I went to parle station and saw a line of around 17 people to be precise, and I hate waiting in damned QUEUE. Just hate that part, so as usual I took a spontaneous decision not to buy tickets and as it is who the hell has got time to check tickets of so many people? So I rushed to platform number two and as soon as I reached the train left. I am a very superstitious person, I started getting negative vibes but even then I moved on. In next 10 minutes there was another train right in front of me which I boarded. I rarely travel by train so I did not remember the name of the station that comes before Matunga so I decided to stand rather than having a seat because these losers have removed the route map, and I wonder what kind of divine pleasure do these train officials get by doing so.

I got down at matunga station and now the story begins. One of the funniest stations in Mumbai I guess. I have a weird pre-conceived notion west is better than east(I am just talking about the western and eastern sides of Mumbai). And all nice places are located in west and welingkar happens to be a nice college so intuitively I headed for west, and after climbing down a tiring staircase I asked a person about where exactly was Welingkar college and he goes like “it’s in east”. I felt like slapping myself for assuming things. I have always been a nominee of ‘laziest person” award, so had I not been low on cash I would have caught a cab which would have charged me pretty much. So instead I decided to climb that tiring staircase once again and after climbing down in east I asked one more gentleman, about the college and he gave me a heart attack, trust me. He explained me that there are two wests and two easts! I know its dumb but he meant central and western railway have different stations and to go to Welingkar college I have to go to central railway station’s east side and not western railway’s east side(I hope you haven’t fallen asleep). So I cursed myself and I followed the instructions given by that fellow. Trust me it was a long walk of 10 minutes on a bridge, these people raise bridges as if it was a joke. There are 3-4 bridges on a station like matunga. That’s too much. Anyways I was just down the staircase, but my over smartness stopped me from doing that and it suggested me to confirm it with someone. So I saw a guy in orange checked shirt and grey trousers, in mid 40’s walking down. 2 people approached him and I thought he must be a head of some sales or marketing team, so I asked him “excuse me sir, where is welingkar college”. He replied “excuse me sir, can I have your ticket please”. If you’re laughing you better stop it, this is the worst thing which can happen, I had almost fooled the railway by travelling without a ticket and then I realize that I got caught because of my own blunder. That fellow was a bloody ticket collector. I said” umm.. sure sir.!”. I pretended that I’d lost it and in a baffled manner I checked my wallet. These ticket checkers are smart, they would know the excuse before I would even speak it out. He said” you must have lost it, isn’t it? I replied” you’re a genius sir, how do you know? He caught my collar, yes he caught my collar and took me to a staff room and asked me to pay Rs.250 as fine. I pleaded that I didn’t have that much of money and this greedy pig settled for Rs. 50. Now that’s bargaining you see. I felt miserable, I could have caught a cab instead. And somehow I reached the college and that guy made me wait 20 long minutes outside his college. In these 20 minutes I counted how many people crossed me and the count was 76. This is a nice game to pass time, try it out sometime.

Then I went to the place where I lived for a month and a half when I was new in Mumbai, It was a hostel and I had friends there who complained that I never tried to stay in touch. Yes true enough,I had been just too lazy to travel and meet them, but that day I made sure that I go and meet them. I took a cab from matunga to wadala and on my way I thought about all those people whom I was supposed to be meeting. I reached there and I realized none, yes NONE of those 8 people whom I’d thought about were there. Actually I made very few friends at this place. Bad day means bad day, I had to return without meeting anyone and I went to wadala station.

If you think I would have stood in a queue to take a ticket this time, then you’re wrong! The line almost overflowed out of the station, because from this station you get a train every 30 minutes, train arrived as soon as I boarded it. There was no chance of getting caught because ticket collector’s at Parle station are not as smart as the ones in Matunga station, these people wear a black coat. So I never get caught at parle station even if I am travelling without a ticket, experience after all. Meanwhile I found a place to sit and due to this wonderful ability of mine, which is getting sleep anywhere and everywhere under whatever circumstances proved costly. I was supposed to be getting down at parle station and instead of that when my eyes opened I was Andheri! As soon as I stepped down a guy in black coat was standing with a garland in his hands to welcome me. Yes it was the damned ticket collector who gave me a wicked grin and asked for my ticket. But I’m happy this time I settled for Rs 30, to be frank enough that was the only amount left with me excluding 3 one rupee coins. I opened up my wallet and explained him that I had nothing more than that, some of my acting skills proved useful that day. I came walking from the station to my college. The most pleasant walk I ever had, a walk of 30 minutes. I did not have money to travel by bus also. My atm balance coincidentally NIL. Finally I reached college and borrowed some cash from a friend and then reached home. This was indeed that most wonderful day of my life and I got to learn a very important lesson that day, “ALL TICKET COLLECTORS NEED NOT WEAR A BLACK COAT”.!!

How we made it?

One of the most interesting thing that ever happened in a management class ever was a play. We had to perform a play in a management subject in 2^nd year. The teams were divided in a group of 7 and ours was a very special team because it contained only Guys.! Yeah you can call it a gay team if you wish to. The most spectacular thing is that we were all brilliant people who tried our level best to skip the rehearsals, screw up the play, waste time, make people believe that we were good for nothing useless bunch of fools. We tried really hard for that but the result was a little shocking. Mam found that our play was best amongst all and even though most of the audience had left for OBVIOUS reasons even before our play started.

I am not exaggerating but our play was a laughter riot with some mind blowing dialogues, I ll come to them later but I cant resist this one “pehle apne girebaan main jaak kar dekho” and it was none other than Mehul, and about whom I am pretty sure he wont knowing “girebaan”, “jaak” and yeah I guess that’s it. The play revolves around 4 guys all coming from different backgrounds having different qualities and the common thing was they were selected into IIT Delhi and happened to be roomies. Except for one guy (Me) who happens to be a big time nerd coming from a typical south Indian family with an awesome kind of accent which made people laugh their asses out, he was also a kind of psychic in nature who shook his head for no reason and was always eager to answer any damn question. He was royally raped by other roomies and at the same time shared a very good rapport with them. Mehul was a character addicted to music and was least bothered about other issues, while fenil was a rowdie and liked showing his physical strength *laughs*, and the one and only Raul Khanna happened to be a playboy character (cant stop laughing now). These guys get into wrong things along with venkat and screw up their grades big time. They were motivated by a professor and this motivation led them to think about society and they cleared the so called dirt with the help of a leading politician ( Vatsalam) who had this peculiar Bihari accent, and obsessed with cows. Yes we did try to create a Lalu Prasad yadav replica out here but due to his height he moreover looked like Nitish kumar. Haha..! Mayank Pandey had asked for a small role for himself so that he can give some time to his laziness.! Hardik jayeshbhai was enjoying pre-exam holidays back in Valsad and therefore got a role of a farmer who was devastated because of his debts and later these 4 guys helped him. Bunty was a professor of physics who gets sore at the students for their misbehavior. And ladt but not the least the dean of the institute Aman tekriwal and just like some bollywood movie it happened to be a flash back play.

I know the story sounds pretty monotonous but the making and some spontaneous delivery of dialogues actually set up the room on fire. I purposely didn’t mention the lead character of parth shah because it needs special coverage of around 10-20 pages..! anyways he had multiple characters but the best one was an owner of a provision store where Raul knanna goes there as a customer and parth Shah charges him more than MRP, guess what did Raul do to make him straight? He literally caught his hair and dragged him out of the stage. That would have hurt him all the more because this wasn’t the first time, we rehearsed for only 4 four times but for parth it Would have been a BIG 4 because his hair was caught every damn time and I wonder a couple of more rehearsals would have made him bold. Lol.! He had warned Raul that he would kick him in the final play if he pulled him by his hair, but it was really nice of him not to do that in the final play.! There were laughter riots during rehearsals because the dialogue delivery was just impossible. A few hindi words made it difficult for everyone to deliver and I was in no mind the to change them because it had awesome effects in the final play. “Ham desh ki unnati ki pragati ke liye zarur ekjut hokar kaam karenge”. Yes rahul is that the case? Yes and special thanks to Avni Agarwal for front stage support with wonderfully timed Music.! There were dancing sessions after all 4 of them got drunk and they danced on hot hindi tracks.! Our professor was more than satisfied with the overall play and we actually made so funny unknowingly that all our efforts of screwing up the play went in VAIN..!

And a special thanks to a few spectators who trusted us more than ourselves of putting up a great show.

Loneliness

Loneliness, sounds horrifying, isn’t it? I have come across many people whose greatest fear is loneliness. Its actually just a state of mind in which you feel completely isolated from the world and you feel that you are the only one whose shoulders are burdened with responsibilities. Loneliness kills, yes it does. Greatest personalities in this world have died a lonely death, and the best example can be none other than on of the greatest autocrat Hitler. He had a painful ending and in his last days he was entirely cut of from the world.

People adopt various methods to avoid it. One of the best ways I personally feel is having a pet. Any pet which you love can make your day, mankind is no longer loyal to mankind and at that point a pet can prove worthier than anything in this world. It actually makes you so involved and engrossed with it, and then comes a point when you get attached to it. The selfless company of a pet can actually help to chase away all you worries. Entertainment is one more temporary way which can help avoiding loneliness.

Giving a second thought to loneliness and mind you second thoughts are always correct. “Aren’t we all lonely?” then why worry about it. We all came alone in this world, we make our own destiny and we would all depart with or without making a mark in this world. Who the hell do we need then? Love, compassion, family , fame, money, friends what is going to come along with you? Its your deeds that matter, the deeds performed by you and only you. Loneliness is not at all horrendous as it seems and people have been projecting it since years. In fact loneliness is a platform for you to discover your true self. Loneliness is a platform to find the purpose, hidden talents inside your self. The one who worries about being lonely is certainly a timid personality. Go, run, fly explore yourself. By spending some time with yourself you actually give yourself a treat.

So, don’t fear if the world calls you Mr. Lonely. It doesn’t know your hidden potential, it is unaware of the powers that lie within you. You don’t need anyone, you are self sufficient. All you need a strong will with a crystal clear way. The more time you spend alone the more you know yourself and the more you know yourself there are more chances that you would accomplish your purpose of being in this beautiful world. Shall we redefine loneliness, it is a state where you have an opportunity to interact and know yourself better!

Change will also Change

Change is inevitable

This small 6 letter word is the heartthrob on which the universe makes progress as well as prospers. Change is the only permanent thing in life. People, seasons, equations, science ,methods ,technology name it and you have it, everything is bound to change

We generally resist the change because it hinders our daily routine, infact we have to compromise with our convenience and easy going life. Great people give a warm welcome to changes in their life and achieve great heights. Always remember god has something better for us in his mind. We might hate it when things which we were accustomed to changes but sooner or later, willingly or unwillingly we have no choice other than to accept it, so why not accept it soon and willingly. Just imagine it would have been so boring and monotonous if things never changed. If seasons never changed then magnificent monsoon would becomes mournful monsoon. And if Australia always won in cricket who would ever have interest in cricket. The magical change from test cricket to one dayers and one dayers to twenty twenty has truly been a huge success.

I had a friend who would just hate changes in his life and was very repulsive of any change in his life. He didn’t even like to change the place where he sat everyday. Attitude, approach and his day today habits were too far, he wouldn’t even change the caller tune he had kept since ages. He had constrained his life within certain specified domain. He was undoubtedly an organized student with a razor sharp mind. His dad was a government employee, and due to a transfer he had to change his school when he was 16. From Mumbai they moved to Gandhinagar, from a duplex flat they moved into a smaller flat, everything in his life changed, friends, teachers, house, colony, city. It was a very tough time for him and everyday he would lock up his room and cry. He would not interact with his classmates and even thought that his dad was to be blamed for all this. His grades finally degraded and he even lost his confidence. He would complain it to god that why was he chosen for this drastic change why no some one else, finally god decided to help the child in distress. He came in his dreams and took him to a small village where he would have to study, where he would get bullied by village children and no television, no computer nothing. He got up shocked and realized things are still great, life could have been worse. He tried to change himself gradually, soon everything changed. He broke all the school records academically and today he is a proud IIT Delhi student who ranked 749 in JEE.

“old is gold” is true, but when old starts to mould your life in an undesired manner you need to get rid of that. Change will also change so have patience.!