Puliya Adda

Adda is a word in Bengali which means gossiping. Puliya adda which I am refering here is very famous amongst my group of friends. Puliya adda used to be one of our prime need during our school & college days. Really cherishing for all of us even today. Even if it was exam days we used to make sure that we spend at least 1 hour in the evening to have our adda. The main members of our puliya group were myself, Parijat, Sutanu, Dipanjan, Anisur, Kaushik, Joydeep, Anup Kutty, Anup Mandal, Abhilash.
We used to enjoy a lot. The most number of jokes were thrown by Parijat with his own style of jumbling the words here & there. Shayaris some were mindless & some were romantic making the passion raised inside was also part of adda. Anup Mandal used to be financer for Samosas, Pakodas & Colas. So couple of hours of saucy adda with food & cola used to make the best of the day for us

Best part of our adda was never restricted only to girls. We used to discuss lot about Cricket, current affairs, politics etc.
As I am writing today, day before holi, the holi celebration at our defence colony just came infront of my eyes. We used to have unique way of celebrating amongst our friends is to tear away the clothes ( only the upper portion) starting with tearing away the pocket of theshirt. 3 hours of playing holi & going back home with your bare skin on a byke or a scooter does looked like an ancient man coming out of forest on his horse.

Puliya Adda had became our daily need of life. After playing at evening or coming back from Tuitions this was one of our main requirement. I must say that strenthen the bonding amongst our group of friends. Now all friends of our group are at different places but whenever we meet we used to discuss those good old days of puliya adda.

I must say our Puliya Adda group one of the famous group in the colony because all those loud laughters & due to its continuity at same place year after year.

Triumph Down Under

Scintillating performance by our Team India down under has brought all cheers to Indian public. When summer is just round the corner, when childrens are gearing up for exams, when corporates are working their best in financial year end & when traders of share markets are having tough time to understand the market scenario, this fantastic display by Team India is iceing on cake for everybody. Surely this month is great for Indian cricket as our under 19 team has brought the world cup & now our senoir teams has clinched the CB series by beating Australia neck & crop.

Indian teams performance is one of the best performance in 50 overs cricket after a long long time. It was again under the captainship of Dhoni who has lead our side to be T20 champions . This man has brought some good fortunes with his captainship. But as they say fortune favours the brave. Surely the way he handles his side in the series which is one of the fire brand series proves his braveness. Seems to be steady head on his shoulders with shrewd brain. He is a super cool guy. Always calm & composed man on field. He has batted with maturity. His allround performance has raised the level of other members of the side as well. It was collective performance of all the members of the side which enabled them to clinch the series.

Earlier in test series it was Kumble who has shown excellent captainship & able to raise the teams performance after the Sydney Test mayhem & winning the test match in Perth pitch where very few visiting teams have won any test against Aussies.

The same spirit continued in the CB series. It was a very young team. I have also doubted whether such a young team can match the Aussies fire brand cricket but our young brigade with a mentor- Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar has showed that Aussies are not invincible anymore. This new found aggresion in the team which has become the catalyst for Indias triumph down under. Earlier the T20 triumph has made this young bunch super confident that they can match with number one Australian side in all the departments of the game.

New found of this series definitely is Ishant Sharma. This lanky fast bowler has all the potential to be one of the top bowlers of the world in future if he keep himself fit. He bowls fast, also very accurate & stick to the basics. In onedayers all the bowlers has done preety good job. Harbhajan Singh also bowled well in some crucial junctures of the matches especially in both the finals & taken some important wickets in the series. His bowling & aggressiveness has tormented Aussie players & frustrated them hell of a lot. He has definitely given Oz players taste of their own medicine.
In batting the Sachin- The maestro has shown again why he is the best & showed his detracters that they are really very silly. Rohit Sharma has also emerged as a future of Indian cricket with Gautam Gambhir who has some what filled the absence of Sourav Ganguly from the team.

If I have to pick 3 main reasons for Indias victory of CB series are-
1) Dhonis excellent Captainship
2) Sachins spectacular batting in both the finals
3) Aggression & youthful exuberance of Indian Players
This Indias triumph down under will be remembered & cherished for long long time ahead.
Well done Team India!