FIFA World Cup!

The Biggest sporting carnival is underway ! The 2010 FiFA world cup! .. the worlds biggest teams descend upon the rainbow nation to showcase their talent and to win and conquer the ultimate glory and be crowned as the World Champions!.

The First world cup to be ever hosted in an African Nation and South Africa rightly deserves the hosting rights , the opening ceremony was a cheerful spectacle with full of music and dance. The Africans nations which has qualified would truly want to utilise the home advantage and would look forward at least to qualify for the knock out stages . I hope at least one of them makes it to the quarterfinal stages .


In fact the first match was a tight contest between the host and the Mexicans , it ended a tight draw with both team scoring ones each and the host came close to scoring a second in the dying stages !

My favourite picks are Brazil followed by Argentina and England . The mentioned teams have skill and the game makers to make it all the way . I wish this tournament is conducted smoothly and without any terrorist incidents ! .....

Waka Waka .. This time its for Africa!

Epics --Is it just a coincidence???

I have been and will be fascinated by Epics again and again ..such as Ramayana, Mahabharatha , Illiyad, Odyssey , Ayenid .. !! They tell you stories about the brave and heroic adventures of great men or Gods and their travails in achieving the greatness!!

Recently ,i had a flash ,that,how similar were these epics, that too epics from varying and ancient cultures of the world. The main crux is about two kingdoms,abducting the woman protagonist or insulting her is the undercurrent,how friendships are bonded and lastly how god triumphs over evil .

For instance take Ramayana .,The story revolves around Goddess Sita who gets abducted and there is a similar story- line to Cypria (by Stasinus ) on how Helen goes to Troy and ignites a battle of great proportions.
The Great Hercules was also very similar to Bhima and Dharma of Mahabharatha in brawn and brain respectively !
Another instance , The great Achilles dies in a similar way to Lord Krishna , on getting shot by an arrow in his heal !!!!. If you read them thoroughly there were Greek warriors who cannot be killed by anyone like Greater Ajax ( who killed himself ) who is similar to "Pitamahar" Bhismar in Mahabharatha ( he had a boon that he can die only if he wants too).Kingdom was Troy was similar to Srilanka from Ramayana.The Greek City states who became united for the war against Troy were similar to the Kingdoms which became united in Mahabharatha to fight against Kauravas.



Infact the Greek and Roman Epics, to name Ayenid , Cypria ,Illiad, Aethiopis,Little Illiad,lliou persis, Nostoi , Odyssey and Telegony to me it appears as fragments of Mahabharatha and Ramayana put together .

Ramayana and Mahabharatha are ageless, The Greek were recent compared to them , in my perspective, the great Greek poets and scholars were greatly impressed by the Indian epics and they wrote their versions of the same .

The above is true for epics around the world .

The Great Greek Gods and Heroes,especially Achilles in Troy has made the same impact as the epics Ramayana and Mahabharatha.

"Be Brave,Be Strong,Be Magnanimous"!