First let me tell you that my parents have been on a two month long vacation to the US and that might have been a real good thing for them, but their unrelenting comparisons to what we have in India to what they got in the US can be quite funny sometimes and annoying some other times to all those listening.
Last year my parents and I went on a pilgrimage and we were accompanied by two of our family friends who just then returned from the US and we were constantly made to hear their constant parallels drawn and how unparalled the US is!!! My father was visibly annoyed, but now I guess he understands them better and they might be quite keen on forming the US Fan Club.
On a more serious note however I must say I am concerned about the magnetic pull that US has over people. We have long spoken about the 'brain drain' from India and its shift towards the West. Think about it, if my parents, who have lived 60 years of their lives in India amidst the drudgery, politics, pollution, corruption and what not, can be so pulled towards every aspect of that country then why wont our younger generation be motivated by the prospect of living in better conditions.
Let me also tell you that I'm too much of an Indian and I think that there is no place like home and so when people praise US to the sky I find it rather difficult to digest. I wish everyday that I can somehow make a difference in a small way towards India being enviable by the Western world as they are to us now. Can I, the true Indian, make India that way.
Atleast we should make a concerted effort in developing small pockets rather than the whole. I always think of how I can make India better. I have ideas, plans to make my ideas work, but is there someone with more power than just the willpower to make this happen. I intend to search for such people because where else but India can we find people who will come forward to help fully knowing you are neither family nor friend? Where else but India will relatives open their doors wide even when we havent made an appointment to visit them and still more have the heart to cook a wonderful meal for uninvited guests? Where else but India will you find resilience even from the most uneducated and oppressed people? Where else but in India can a foreign director come and make a movie on our poverty and yet show how successful poverty can make us and win the black statutte!!!!
I will forever honour India and stand by her through all her ups and downs. I know I might be one but I have the heart of a million. God Bless India!!!
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
IPL and After
The last blog I wrote was when Bangalore Royal Challengers were losing, but what happened on 24th May made it mandatory that I re-write somethings out here while they have re-written their fate out on the field.
Deccan Chargers won but to me Kumble and his men will be the better team. I have always admired Kumble for his hardwork and sincerity towards the game. While many of his peers have got alot of recognition, he has gone about his work silently and successfully and today with the same silence he has brought back a team from the ashes to life, if that ever was possible!!!
IPL and its future:
The IPL governing body are seriously considering the possibility of hosting this event twice a year, the main one in India and a smaller scale IPL abroad. They sure are going to make alot of money but do they ever think of the players. Just because players are being paid money they cant be treated like bonded labour. They have a very taxing international calender and to add to that this money making business!!!! The ICC should oppose this move if they are in their right senses, but guess what, their brains have been placed in a rather inconvenient part of the body making it difficult for them to be rational. Afterall it is the BCCI which gives them the funds to run the show.
The question that arises in my mind now is, will the players oppose this move? Can money override international commitments and pride of playing for the country? Will they be bold enough to stand up to Modi & Co and tell them that they are human and not machines? Do you know what I think, they wont stand up, because this is business to them and profits are the only reason businesses run. So as long as the human machine works, providing for depreciation of course,this business of cricket will go on....
Deccan Chargers won but to me Kumble and his men will be the better team. I have always admired Kumble for his hardwork and sincerity towards the game. While many of his peers have got alot of recognition, he has gone about his work silently and successfully and today with the same silence he has brought back a team from the ashes to life, if that ever was possible!!!
IPL and its future:
The IPL governing body are seriously considering the possibility of hosting this event twice a year, the main one in India and a smaller scale IPL abroad. They sure are going to make alot of money but do they ever think of the players. Just because players are being paid money they cant be treated like bonded labour. They have a very taxing international calender and to add to that this money making business!!!! The ICC should oppose this move if they are in their right senses, but guess what, their brains have been placed in a rather inconvenient part of the body making it difficult for them to be rational. Afterall it is the BCCI which gives them the funds to run the show.
The question that arises in my mind now is, will the players oppose this move? Can money override international commitments and pride of playing for the country? Will they be bold enough to stand up to Modi & Co and tell them that they are human and not machines? Do you know what I think, they wont stand up, because this is business to them and profits are the only reason businesses run. So as long as the human machine works, providing for depreciation of course,this business of cricket will go on....
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