Kuruksastra..... few debates and a walk out

Kuruksastra is over. I can proudly say that this time i saw it. For last three years its something i only heard from other people, even though i attended its previous versions but its not more than an hour if you sum up the time.
All in all it was good to see whole college in such a pace with everyone satisfying their intellectual hunger through drama, debate, dance and many many other things. It creates those rare moments when the year recognition is lost and all comes on same floor to compete something which almost impossible to judge.
It was Shankar Mahadevan who eclipsed everything in the last evening. The impeccable voice, the aura and the charm which gripped the whole college for about 2 hours and i could still feel his grip on this college by seeing status messages on gtalk, orkut and facebook. I choose sitting in Ctv rather going in and dancing and i really enjoyed, one can imagine the atmosphere in stands.. As far as i can see it was simply Awesome!!!!
The thing i felt is he did not sung those for which he is recognized and admired. To make the mood instead of singing "jhoom barabar" he must have sung "Koi kahe" from DCH. No song from Lakshya and no from his album "Nine", atleast he should have sing "Noor E Khuda". I felt satisfied twice, one at "Maa" and other at "Breathless"... Overall its quiet a time and the feeling of real Shankar Mahadevan standing in front and singing is good, atleast for someone like me who never saw any showbiz personality ever... else than myself :)

Maximum time of these 3 days are passed in NMV auditorium watching Hindi Lits.. Pride of this college.. They win everywhere... If somewhere they did not won means they did not took part, its as simple as that...
The confidence in organizing committee was something, i m sure, every participant was scared of. Vishnupal led the team like Eric Cantona would have led the Manchester United years ago, attitude of the best player+captain could be seen in the confidence of each and every team mate...
If football commentrator Andy Gray would have been there... He must have said.... Take a Bow son !!!! Take a Bow !!!!!
The hard work of organizers was visible in the quizzes they prepared. Especially Antakshari, i think it was solely made by Amitabh and it was Something....
I was wondering how confident participants were and virtually giving lessons to someone like me who never ever even dared to climb up to that stage.
Boys and girls from all the years and from many colleges...

Apart from all this few things which took my attention...
First is the debate.. The confidence of participants was extremely good, i wonder how no one fainted or even a single one wavering. But.... there was a certain lack of preparation, i bet there was... Everyone was talking about something they guess should be rather than some solid points...
There was a certain lack of reasoning and every one was busy showing there ability of argument, useless argument..
Like in finals, topic was about Reality shows.. Many came and blabbered lines of Dinkar and Nirala... "Jo bhara nahi hai bhaawon se......" and all those stuff which has nothing to do with Reality shows. Leave alone reality show, i dont think Nirala or Bachchan ever said anything even on Show business. Instead you should have prepared why are reality shows so hit and why or why not they are affecting society as whole. Anyhow if you want to quote someone, tell us what Stephen Spielberg or Coppola or Prahlad Kakkar said on effect of stars on us.. Quote something relevant rather shouting bullshit....
I dont know exactly what India lost in creation of Pakistan but i can tell what India gained and thats the endless number of debates.. Its Pakistan everywhere, even the partition of states is somewhere related to Pakistan.... One was saying if we want to fight Naxalites we must take guns from all the policemen and send them barehanded... Upon asking to elaborate this he himself do not know what to say. One took partition of State as his topic and end up speaking for 5 minutes on corruption, no relevance at all. If some one someday show the videotape to that guy i dont know will he speak again in his life ???
At last i came to conclusion that there must be Pakistan's hand in my bad performance in class, because its the root cause of each and every problem in India...

One more thing, i walked out of the auditorium last day, many asked me the reason. I feel its my moral responsibility to explain the reason of that. It was around 2.30 afternoon and auditorium was more than full but anyhow one junior(mithilesh) arranged a seat for me. It was last event of the whole setup and was Drama. Many teams came to perform in front of that overcapacity crowd and no one really cared which year you are and every team was given the warm reception, only Shankar Mahadevan got better than that. Everyone was yelling and clapping on each and every action of teams. Then came a team which presented something out of the world, yes i mean it. Such a bad performance that no one could understand what are they doing. One could only make out the actors they were imitating, i bet my life that no one in that auditorium could sense the story or anything. Still we all clapped and for nearly 20 minutes. Only one word for the performance... Pathetic... Anyhow the play ended and crowd still not booed anyone but it was obvious everyone was laughing.. Few shouted "once more". Few like me were shaking there head and trying find a way to react. But before me, organizers reacted, they came in middle of audi and started shouting on audience that who wants "once more" and how many of you ever appeared on stage. They even grabbed few 2nd years and took them out of audi. Why to show your seniority when you claim a fare game ? None of the guy said a vulgar or abusive words, if they can clap cant they boo ?? Who will tell how to react ??? I agree that organizers have good stage persona, how can they claim no other can perform anything on stage ???? If a junior performer should be excused, why cant a junior spectator ???? You as a judge did not showed mercy by awarding them extra points, why should we as an audience excuse them by suppressing something so instinctive ???? How can someone ask for mercy after a bad performance ???? If someone is so scared of repercussion, why the hell are they coming to perform ???? And giving them mercy on the basis of their 1st year is insulting them a bit more than booing. I know few of that team personally but bad is bad.... I dont want to be part of something where you are allowed to give only one reaction... No one shouted on bad debate, because its not the manner of the event but in drama if you can scream in applause you can shout in denial too...
At last after coming out i met to a creature named Ankit Singh, who was also part of a play half an hour before.. We talked on this and first line he said is, "Go and do something on stage you will feel how difficult it is"... You are so sure that i m an asshole who never saw or stood on stage and you are the first one after Girish Karnad to do so... Now this is what i call bloody mediocrity.. You are so sure that your job is over just by appearing on stage and you need not to bother about your performance and every one else than you never dared to walk on that sacred stage... So how the hell can you criticize Salman Khan or Ashish Nehra because i m sure you neither made a movie nor you ever played International cricket.. So mister, you are not winner just because you tried, You need to win something in order to be a winner.....

Pic Courtsey : 1st from sanjeet's orkut album...
2nd from google (tell me exactly so i could mention)

The curse of a hurt man....

Hi, all… I do not appreciate personal blogs which are just related to the person writing but this time I cant help… I have to tell this… Please read it as far as you could….

Its midnight, I m somewhere between Thursday and Friday and undoubtedly one of the happiest guy. The reason is very very simple but quiet have a history of its own, SPS BULLS lost. Yes you heard me right, SPS BULLS lost and I m lot lot more happier than the guys who shot them down. Its an Oh I Say!!!! Moment for me, watching the game from far away, so far I do not have any idea of score and knew only when they lost but ah they lost… Nothing can get more gratifying then this….

Why do I need to be so happy, it had to happen. They were destined for the defeat and I knew it very early… earlier than this fixture was declared.. earlier than this tournament began, even earlier than last one…Once upon a time, when i was hurt, i was really hurt by many guys, i never showed any emotion, not even to myself in alone… But today i did… I laughed.. I screamed and if there exists a parallel universe, I want to console that boy who is alone, hurt, whose ego is bruised and who cannot do anything for it but to keep quiet… Time stood by me… You all see, time stood by my side and I m laughing with him over you assholes who always demanded without even thinking how much effort I ever put. Assholes who always wanted me to keep there words but never kept my smallest of feeling. Who were stars but never care how much my hands are burnt in this stardom. Don’t get me wrong, I never asked for credit but at least listen before discarding anyone hardwork just because it doesn’t fit to your moronism…

I don’t need credit, I had enough… But I can never forget the questions asked to me, especially by the boy whom I always took care about… He hurt me not the year ago but way before than that… when we were in 2nd year and he wounded me so much that I did what I never even thought of… it was shameful but I have no control over the fury I had within…. and we both knew it...

I don’t think anyone else than me would be interested in all the things I wrote but if you are still reading it means you could sense what I m talking about…

Exactly an year ago I had to face allegations, serious ones from the guys who do not know what a team mean, who have no idea how its made, and what it takes to keep a team alive. One of the mediator, Sandeep asked me, do i have any answer to these allegements, i then said i have 100 replies of their each question but i need not to answer a single of them, because i was million percent confident of their fate. i would have confirmed their doom that week itself but Sandeep f betrayed me and shamelessly unwrapped my mission of making a new team and its painfull.. more than you could ever imagine… They would have ate the dust there only but sandeep exposed it before time and I was ravaged…

You might be thinking we are here to study and why the hell should I take Cricket so seriously, but no, it was serious, more than even i could imagine and it was about how we live and how we think… but I m happy that serious cricket is over and my time with assholes too…

Now i m happily semi retire and play for warriors, a lovely team who listen me and even i never ever shown my face in practice and friendly matches but they want me in their team as far as i think. Cricket as a game is over for me and i play just to be with the guys who took me when other teams like Broomsticks refused to take me in their team. Anyways where the hell is Broomsticks ????

At last about SPS BULLS… i have many things to say but i don’t think anyone would be interested, you already had enough reading it till here and i cannot ask for more..

There dream of Major Tournament is over in 1st round and i advice to them is that none of you ever had strength of this major tournament… Try your luck in Super 6 in Fuera, I m not going to play that but my good wishes for that..

Those guys didn’t won a single game after, not a single game in the major tournament and stars of yesterdays are out in 2 consecutive tournaments in the 1st round….

1 year… 2 Tournament… 0 Wins…

Well Done Boys!!!! After all you did this without me…..

We all are in prostitution....

Who are we...
There are many definitions and one could be like this...
As its vulgar and coarse so please forgive...
We are just like "prostitutes"... As a prostitute can not choose her client in the very manner we can never choose which circumstance will F***k us...
Yes, the most we can ever do is to choose a place where we will get screwed just as we in college chose this place but what we can not do is to choose our customer...
Our well wishers(specially our parents) are like Brokers(dalal) who can help us to pick the best possible or say a decent client which should manhandle us gently but as one can not leave her profession so we can not help us from circumstances... They(brokers) can not insulate us from us to get f****ed up by our costumers....
Just as we all can see after +2 in India specially in middle class , a boy is f***ed so hard but his parents cannot help him rather knowing the fact that their child is in dilemma and anguish of Once in a life time but they cannot help it and the irony is many times their hopes are biggest factor of the agony...
Its just the game of prostitute and her costumer, And i bet costumer really enjoy the time.... Ask yourself!!!!

Its Not Just Cultural Difference...

I was busy in CE exam, the examination paper was so long that after exam i went to a nearby shop for binding of answer sheets, single thread can not hold so many sheets...
Also i was busy in defending my Test XI which i posted in last blog...

In process, Yesterday i went to Thanjavur(city nearest to my college) for Train reservation..
I found my self in the midst of a weird and irritating situation, which although was not first time but i cannot get that out of my mind everytime i undergo...
We were sitting on the right side(row behind driver) at last 2 seats of a city bus and the bus was relatively empty, after two stops a man and woman(both in mid 30s) came with their 4 year daughter, and sat just on the seats ahead of us... in 10 minutes man started showing he is not happy in we sitting behind his beloved wife(i m not as smart to make him feel insecure).. I swear we were just sitting and talking about our exams that how we will prepare this next time writing as arrear...
After few assholic concerns of the man and before the scene could get worse or public we decided to sit on the leftmost backseats...
The person who never encountered this will certainly say i havent reproduced the same situation and we must be doing some thing but remember its Thanjavur.. Its everyday matter that we only on the basis of our language are considered as hasslers..
What if we laugh or joke regularly.. If this creates disturbance what the hell that low quality speakers in the bus do ???
I once sat beside a lady of nearly 80 years, exactly around the age of my grandmother, the lady pushed me and asked me to get up and in no time bus conductor started "ille pille....", As sitting beside a woman is threat to our damn virginity..
And this happened every now and then...
Now, why does this happen, I really respect natives of this part of country but i dont know why they get annoyed very easily on us(North Indians), It could be for anything.. They feel as if they never got their due share in politics or economy or history or whatever, i dont know, but neither me nor my friends were part of the conspiracy of passed era...

I m sure if you even been to this place you would have certainly encountered all this...
I m wondering in spite of the fact that we never did any rubbish activity such treatment is given to us...
Some day if some of my friend will really be guilty of any such offense... What will happen to him ????

GREATEST TEST TEAM (1877-2009)

I, after numerous arguments with my foolish and idiot friends(Sandeep Ganesan on top of that list), now decided to duck the questions like, How dare I think this and that to be The Greatest player or better than their choices...
I many times answered but every time the argument got so intense that I just escaped to be part of countless wrestling matches...

So now I decided to put The Greatest XI on this blog to end the direct arguments for once and for all because here it can never get physical....

On a serious note, undoubtedly these are The Greatest Cricket Players of All time..
There are many others but, as Sports is a draconian path where one always had to leave way for the other, only 11 spots are available.....

As this team consists of players from 1877 to 2009 so please give me liberty to choose them from all across the history....


OPENERS....

JACK HOBBS---- The Best Opener Ever... Along with "Herbert Suttcliffe" he dominated the World Cricket for 2 decades(1910s and 1920s).. Still holds the World record of 197 first class centuries, he made 62000 runs in process...

VICTOR TRUMPER----The Grandest of All..He is considered as one of the two finest batsmen ever who walked on a cricket pitch(Bradman the other).. He as said was the batsman who can score even if the pitch is made on a swamp.. He was whole and soul of Australian batting for first 15 years of 20th century and died at age of 37..

3. DONALD BRADMAN----Only 1 sentence for him..... Cricket is a game of uncertainties, unless you have a Bradman...

4. W G GRACE---- Father of Cricket, Captain of England, Captain of MCC, Captain of Gentlemen(Cricket Club)...Played from 1865 to 1913, He 29 times made 1000 runs in the month of May. Greatest Athlete who played first class cricket till the age of 65 (debut at 17).. In a survey, 110 years ago, he was second most recognised face in Great Britain in whole 19 century(Prime Minister Gladstone being the first)..
Doctor by profession, he never gave up his tag of amatuer and never became a professional, but his salary could be imagined by this, in his times "Everton" was the biggest football club and salary of top 12 players of Everton was equal what his club used to pay WG !!!!
In 1880s his annual income through Cricket was 30,000 pounds. Stadium signboards those days usually displays, 6 pence if WG will play and 3 if he wont !!!!

5.GARFIELD SOBERS---- A man who can perform any(any means any) job on a cricket field.. He can bowl at 80 miles per hour with new ball, can bowl spin, can bat at any order and whatever else you cannot even imagine.. Look at an example of his greatness.. When he retired from Test cricket he held 3 main records(of course many others too).. Maximum runs,Maximum wickets and Maximum catches in Test cricket....

6.STEVE WAUGH (CAPTAIN)---- Hard,Uncompromising, Rare and Eternal like Diamond... He transformed a group of boys into the most lethal and Horrendous Team in the history.. Broke the 80 year standing record of Warwarik Armstrong and above all in the process, became a player with uncomparable will-power and infinte surrender potential... In modern cricket He The Man among Boys....

7.ADAM GILCHRIST(WK)---- Undoubtedly he is most fierce hitter of cricket ball who also took the gloves behind the wicket.. I would have loved to choose Viv Richards but he can not keep wickets or Allan Knott who do not have such dominant batting skills... Also I need a Hitter as keeper because such a batting line up needs a quick run getter so that captain can declare the innings early and no keeper can deliver this better than Adam Gilchrist....

8.SHANE WARNE---- Magician !!!! The Best Spinner in 130 years of Test Cricket.. His number of preys cannot (although they are 708) match his skills and perfection.. The bowler who if takes 3 wickets in an innings, Those 3 will obviously be top batsmen of the side..
A man who revolutionized the whole scene of the cricket in early 90s with his magic deliveries, even when he will be 70, can get a place in any test team..
If you think he is the lone spinner without partner so there is always Sir Gary Sobers to share the old ball with him...

9.HAROLD LARWOOD---- The Fastesssst... A man who in a single series created a impact on the World Cricket which could never be paralleled.. Larwood was the original and peerless executioner of unfamed "BODYLINE"... Douglas Jardine once said, You keep a coin on pitch and this man can pith the ball over that coins 6 times in an over... Unfortunate for us, speed measuring machines were not at his times but nearly all claims he was a lot faster than many 100 miles bowlers along with his pin point accuracy... Many times in english cricket, First Class County sides refused to play against Larwood on grassy tracks...
He holds the record of highest score by a nightwatchman(98 runs) for nearly 7 decades which Alex Tudor breaks in 1999 against New Zeland....
His career was short as he never got oppurtunity to play after bodyline series of 1932-33 but he truly deserved what he never got...

10.FREDRICK SPOFORTH---- Nickname as "The Demon".. He is the man responsible for what we today know as "The Ashes".. In 1882 he devastated England where he took first hat-trick of test cricket.. He did not let them make 10 runs with 7 wickets left which is considered as most lethal spell of all times... That Oval Test later laid foundation for Ashes...
He was the bowler who many times was, by english batsmen(including WG), given money for not to tour Britain so they dont have to face the troubles of his ferocious pace..
The first bowling superstar, The Demon, is really will be a fitting opening bowler for such a team...

11.SYDNEY BARNES---- Most Successfull bowler ever... Considered as "Bradman of Bowling".. He took 189 wickets in 22 matches with unbelievable average of 16 which is still a record(My all time favourite Mcgrath is second with 22)... His duel with Victor trumper was one of the finest duels in sporting history... He is believed to be The Finest bowler by all who saw him or played with or against him...

12th Man.. FRED TRUEMAN---- LEGEND!!!! He ruled the world cricket for 15 years, in exactly mid of 20th century, Fred Trueman was a true Fast Bowler in all respect.. The first bowler to take 300 wickets, he worked whole his childhood in mines and as said his game always showed how one can fight a new battle each day...

MY COLLEGE,SASTRA ---2

After 12 hours I have my end semester exam and believe me if luck favours i can pass that..
Now this post have nothing to do with my exams but my college.. We are studying in a decent one but there is a problem with faculty.. I am not at all saying that we dont have a good one but it could be better..
To understand it first look at geographical condition of this college..
Its on a highway connecting Trichy and Thanjavur(Two cities of Tamil Nadu)..
This college is 40 km east of Trichy and 15 km west of Thanjavur..
And the connectivity of this college from Thanjavur is so poor making us studying on an island..
A regular(???) bus takes us to NBS(New Bus Stand) which the outer most part of Thanjavur making it a hectic job for us to go there for our general works like reservation and mobile repair and all..
Now what all this had to do with Teachers and faculty ???
Answer is everything...
There are 10 hostels for students in this college but for faculty members... none(can say HIG,but i dont know who else than upadhyay sir lives there)..
So why a teacher who is ambitious or good enough and can manage himself the same remuneration in some city like Banglore or Chennai will take pain of coming here and daily take bus or his private vehicle(on a 2 lane highway), in short under such daunting conditions of travelling..
There are no doubt excellent teachers here but they might be working for love of this college but a new one will certainly give preference to some area which gives him/her better living or say travelling conditions...
In this time when colleges are as competitive as any MNCs we(college), must have hostels or say staff quarters for teachers to obtain or sustain good teachers..

Dil Dosti Etc..

Few days back i read a review of movie "Dil Dosti etc." on cheap-n-chalu(my seniors blog) and i think i also have something to say about the movie..
I saw this movie around a year back and i do not remember its story exactly but noticed and felt 2 contraries in the movie...

The two characters of the movie, imad shah and shreyas talpade (sanjay mishra), combines to form "Contrary 1"..
The 2 characters are like two different waves with all attribites differnt but meets at some node.. likewise the two characters have neither history in common nor princples or life values or dreams but in course of the movie they had to face almost same conditions.. Sanjay mishra reacts all the situations according to his prespecified life values like he condemns sexual activity in boys hostel or he fights for his friends without caring who did first mistake on the other side character of imad shah do not have any prespecific or even existing life values and he just play the life as it comes..
Now a person so ambitious and skillfull in every field of life mets with a tragic end where at last he looses his girlfriend and his life(its not sure he suicide or got murdered) whereas a person so incompetent gets what he never even imagined..
Now, this shows to survive anywhere first compare your terms with sorroundings..
For sanjays girlfriend sex with other guy is just an escape from reality but for him its about lifetime.. They dont have same terms.. Leisure of one is the life for other..
The main reason is he came from just a different society where the perception he developed is different from where he is competing, The very same situations many times happens with me and my friends in college and outside college like once we were laughing outside a resturant("Sathars") and police charged lathis on us and the simple reason was because we were north indians once our one friend started speaking tamil police let us go, i dont want to entertaine this thought but yes the cause of many problems here is our ethnicity..
Whereas person like imad shah(forgotten characters name) have no values and they are fit to survive because of the same values and terms as of sorroundings...
The conclusion could be like,its your skills which decide your rise but its your life values which decide your fall, like a polititians rise is decided by his skill but one scandal(generally sexual) ensures his fall.


The other two characters "Kintu" and a prostitute makes "Contrary 2" which is rather very simple..
For kintu she can love only a guy till the day she slept with him and after that they have no excitement factor between them and thay break up...
For that prostitue she can only have costumer till the day she dont feel any emotional attachment with him..
"For one "The Sex" is end of her love whereas for other "The Love" is end of her sex.......

MY COLLEGE,SASTRA

Hi,
I m writing this post in extreme pain as yesterday i got very horrible knee injury which few say is "sprain' or some"ligament tear" and few good friends even claimed its a fracture although minor..
The thought i want to share often comes to my mind but today i felt it with all the exact examples..
Its sad of us that practical exams are going in my college and its time for submissions and records and observations..
so today i went to my microprocessor teacher and she refused to sign my record as it was too late and i have no hard feelings for that..
She asked me to meet HOD(shanti mam).
As i was scheduled to write the exam yesterday which i didnt she asked me to meet DEAN of SOC(School of Computing).
Two things you must know is, there are two blocks(CTV and TIFAC) of 4 stories each to meet these three and the pain in my left knee was so intense it has tough for me to even sleep yesterday..
Now i made few observations.
When i was talking to my teacher i was in pain which was apparent but she not even asked me to sit (there was a chair lying by my side).. I remain standing for 1 hour
Then i went to my DS teacher and he also knew i m in pain, kept me standing for 1 hour..
HOD asked how are you and said you must meet doctor and DEAN was so humble that he written in letter that this student should get the slot he wanted and also in our talk of 2 minutes he offered me seat..
Now what i want to say i met two people who are in regular contact with me and they asked about my injury is "why are you standing in such pose" and whatever they said about my academics i deserved that but they forgotten that there is a human standing infront of me.
There was even a teacher who tought me for a year saw me crouching 5 times but her expressions were telling i m just trying to gain the bloody sympathy of teachers..
HOD who met me 5-6 times in whole asked me how i got the injury and i should take care of myself and DEAN who i dont think ever observed that i even exist in this college showed such concernes..

Why is it so ???
Teachers after coming in regular contact of students forgets that we are humans..thay treat us exactly as animals..
If i lost my record means i m just lying..
students do not deserve humour and they must be kept in class wether teacher is teaching something or not..
Students also consider teachers as their slaves.. Whatever happens they will sign my record..they will do this or that..
Whenever you will move up the hierarchy(except few) you will find people who are ready to accept the fact that students are also "Homo Sapiens"
The whole act is just like a class struggle of any society which i feel could be called as "Animals" against "Slaves"

HERE I AM

Hi its me...Its my first blog and i really dont know who will read it and as of now i dont know on what topic to write.. The night of sunday is meeting with dawn of monday and "Here I Am" with my impression on a billion dollar internet after orkut (profile) and facebook(profile)...