Friday, February 22, 2008

IPL- Good Entertainment Prospect

Indian Premier League is making sensation all as auctioning of players are over. Concept is similar like English Premier League of Football or NBA. Humongous money has been lavishly dished out to players around the world. It shows how much money is flowing in Indian Air. Sometimes I think why then so many poors in this country, why those many illiterates & why most of the cities are failing to provide required infrastructure to common man round the year. Money is not getting routed through proper channels. Most of us will agree, this is because of uneven distribution of money but who cares. Coming back to IPL & its prospect in India. I find its good thing happening not only to Cricket but by an large to sports with Indian context. Its very good prospect as an entertainment, now we can go to watch 4 hours fun in a ground, sipping some mugs of beer, of course if they allow it. IPL will be successful in bringing in people to the stadium, anyway that is never a problem to fill up the stadium for cricket in India. I will be happy if Mom's & Mother in law's cut the crap of watching daily soaps & come to watch matches.
I wonder though whether it can increase the sentiment of public by an inch for the teams which are city teams when public sentiment always beats for the national team i.e Indian Cricket Team. We always wanted Indian team to win but this league will demand city based loyalty that is something difficult to inculcate in masses. If you bring even Mallika Sherawat to dance on Maiya Maiya before the match & Bipasha Basu to do Beedi Jalaile with winning team still it cannot generate that extra sentiment for localised matches like these. Yes, entertainment factor for spectators & even for T.V audience will be bubbling with high for sure after watching those girls dancing.

Biggest beneficiaries are cricket players & that too new joinies to international cricket like Ishant Sharma & Rohit Sharma. Lot of money has been spent to buy them. I think Boycott must be saying- My Mom also should join IPL, she can even smash sixes with a stick of rubab.

Our Oneday & T20 captain M.S Dhoni is the costliest player with 6 crores & he deserves to get that top value after all he was the captain of winning World T20 side & he seems to be a shrewd brain & street smart cricketer too. Seems a definite horse for a longer race. Good that an Indian has been bought with highest price though I believe biddings are too highly done just like Reliance Power IPO was too highly priced. Symmonds is 2nd with 5.4 crores deserves to be 2nd as he can be devastating T20 batsman. I feel Bhajji also agrees to it. Anyway bhajji will also get decent money.

One more interesting part can happen if the owners of the respective teams floats some shares to stock listings. That provision is there in IPL. That could be a happening stuff like buying some shares of Sourav's Kolkata or buying Sachin's Mumbai.

I look IPL as a good entertainment prospect for weekend. Real cricket is Test Cricket though. Skills & techniques & other critical aspects of cricket can be best watched in Test Cricket. Even 50 overs onedayers requires skills & adds the thrill. No doubt T20 also requires skills but it is more like Tukka & aara patta cricket even mediocre players have some chance there.

Strongly believes that some new & different things should always keep on happening. IPL may help in globalization of cricket too which is lacking presently. So I support IPL in a broader sense except the amount of money flown around. Wishing IPL to be a grand Success.

Thursday, February 21, 2008

No Barriers No Walls- Airtel Ad.

We have seen the latest advertisement of Airtel which is being telecasted these days.

I find the ad. very meaningful where two cross border kids meet up to play football between the barriers, the partition created by man between two land, scenically from both sides land looks the same & both kids looks like human kid. It immediately brings the India- Pak istan border in mind.

Punch line is the best in the ad. Short, crisp & effective. It immediately makes me think that there are so many issues can be solved if we talk. So many issues kept pending due to none initiative by any of the parties involved.

I feel all the barriers are mental barriers, all the walls are self created by man. All of these lead to the path of destruction. Compromise is the word which is so undermine these days. Compromise can solve so many issues of global concern & even concern like family matters. But to compromise first step is to take the initiative of talking. If we don't talk barriers & walls are destined to form. Talking removes the smoke of confusion which is the starting point of fight. Don't we argue or fight with our near & dear ones sometimes but after a while we start talking, so it doesn't reach to level where barrier or walls get created.

Talking also removes the shyness. Yes, I remember those old days when I missed the caring of all those beautiful girls as I didn't talk to them due to my shyness.

Crux is talk for building relation, talk for mending gaps, talk for future growth, talk so that there is no war like situation, talk for happiness, talk for peace.

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Life is a Playground

LIFE---Have we ever given a deep thought about this word?? This 4 letter word sums up whole journey of a man.

Four letters of "Life" is just like 4 phases of life journey- Childhood, teenage, grown up (Adult) & Old age. 4 phases are just like 4 corners of a playground. Playground because life throws up different situation reaction games, we have to play & pass it to move forward. Rule says phase of life starts with a childhood & finishes at old age. So play to win, play to be happy, play to fight with sorrows, play to satisfy your needs, play to make your family proud, most importantly play fairly to reach the final destination of 4th phase & become immortal.

Playground will arrange many games on different situations one has to come over it & move forward. We all might agree that whatever our age is now we faced many games in life & we have reached to the present after playing all those games. If we look back to those games actually we won those games that is why we reached the current place where are we now. Though that time we never realized that we won it.

Irony is nobody ideally likes to reach final destination of this playground. People are unsure about what will be next phase after "Life". Amazing part is we are living at present & want to remain happy still we keep rejoicing about our past, i.e. the spent phases & that gives us maximum happiness. We all want to go back to those spent phases, years of life. For some people want to back to those spent phases to acheive something differently or playing those games in a different way. Alas! that cannot happen in this playground, walls are strong between the phases, one cannot penetrate to go back to the earlier one. There I say Life is playing with us, just like when I see Sachin Tendulkar's mesmerizing batting, I feel I should go back to age of 10 & take the bat in my hand again & start playing cricket with dedication to play for my country one day just like Sachin.

This playground has different situation reaction games. The person who reacts properly, win the games & happily move forward phase after phase. Other way round individuals who fails to react to situation, life gives some more chances to them. If one can come over it then person can move ahead happily. These games are called as challenges of life.

Playground has so many games, the fun rides, logic is to play with positive attitude towards it, Don't we regularly use the phrase "Have positive attitude towards life". Have lot of fun in this ground. Also enjoy the greenery around it. Strive to reach the final destination of final phase happily, which is a final point of this playground & proudly say its a victory lap!

Preface

Today! I am starting with my own blog. I am always passionate about writing. I write those which attracts me emotionally & touches my heart. Now I am going to write in my blog all those things which attracts me & which is I am sure people will enjoy to read....Happy reading & stay in touch!