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 ! .....
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.
" I never believed that i could fall in love,that was
till,i saw her eyes"
"The eyes which stirs your heart,will show you real love ,
She has such a beautiful pair of eyes,which stirred not only my heart but my soul too ..
I don't know what that feeling is......"
"Taj mahal , is a beauty which can be described ,
The beauty of her eyes,can't be "
"Even an illiterate will become a literate,just to praise her eyes "
When i dance,i move,but my heart doesn't
When we dance,i don't move,but my heart and soul moves "
Tell me something !! 60 years back , we were a nation with a low literacy rate and we had so many "so called" backward communities and castes and these people were not "modern" so we had to have reservations for them to make them come up and so that they will have an equal opportunities ! But now , 60 years on !! we have the same reservation system and so many generations have passed and the economy booming , do we need the reservation system now??? if so , why??.
Consider this scenario , students with 80% marks and who belongs to a forward community is loosing out on an university seat just because the seat has to be on reservation , in this competitive world is this fair?? and the student who gets in because of a reserved seat , struggles to cope up with the demand , if he really deserves it he must have scored good ! . Let alone merit and fair knowledge be an entry judge and not a student's caste and community . Deserving students are left in the lurch and because of this , the student ends up settling for a course which is available and not what actually they deserve .
If the Government really feels that these SC/st and other backward communities still need , let the Government start special colleges where they only accommodate students from backward castes and the reservation system in rest of the colleges should be scrapped ! .
Government should also ensure that the Colleges/Universities shouldn't monopolies an the education should be affordable and the cost shouldn't be astronomical !...
Hope the Politicians and the Policy makers wake up and let them up bring the deserving candidate based on merit and not on money and reservations!
The Indian Premier League ( IPL) came to a grand conclusion ( atleast the cricket played on-field) .I must admit that off-field cricket was more fascinating and absorbing than the on-field cricket. The drama and excitement was more off-field !!! . But then the last week was all about really good cricket especially the Finals .
It was between two finest cricketers Sachin "The God Tendulkar" and The Mahinder " Maverick" Dhoni .Two of the most contrasting personalities but very aggressive in their own right! Sachin had all the firepower in the world at his disposal and Dhoni was very clever in marshaling the resources available to him . The victory of Chennai super kings led by Dhoni reminded me of the victory of Napoleon's victory at battle of Toulon where he was outnumbered by British and infact the the French high command was against Napoleon . But Napoleon ensured victory with his handful of faithful men and with his will to win breached the British barricade and ducked under the cannons and ripped apart the British !!! .Dhoni ducked under all Sachins volley and tore apart the Mumbai Indians .
What made the victory special was that it was achieved in the enemies territory and it was an Indian Captain to win ( after the first two victories went to Teams led by Aussies ) and moreover my home team won !.
Hats off to Chennai Super Kings (CSK) them and all the best in the Champions League and in all their future endeavours.
Is the Recession over?? The market pundits and analysts say , the economy is slowly picking up ,, things are getting better . But !! are they? . My personal view is that no they are not !! . My reasons are as follows 1) Banks have lost billions and billions of dollars ( well these are people's money ) , then they have been bailed out by federals by taxpayers money(again people's money ), so it appears they are doing good , but in reality people have lost money both ways as Taxes and their investments too . 2) Banks are still issuing huge bonuses and paying Ceo's exorbitant amount of salaries all with " people's money. 3) Banks have stopped making profits long time back , they still don't, why they show as profit is nothing but debts owed by jobless people which cant be recovered 4)Look at the prices around us , let it be gold , real estate or even basic food commodities everything sky rocketed due to the artificial boom but even after the bubble bust , they remain the same , but jobs were lost and homes were confiscated ! People without jobs or even people with jobs are struggling to make their ends meet !. 5) Jobs .. as they came they went!!!! .. Right from top executives to Junior rank people where hired and sacked like herd of sheep, people are traumatised , depressed because of this , trust me the jobs are not back especially with people with multiple degrees or who were with space figure salaries . 6) The unemployment rate continues to be the same , only few companies have started to recruit , but companies like Ford which underwent major restructuring cannot afford again to provide so many jobs again. 7)Beware!! this recession might happen again as most of the economies are running on borrowed credit and most of the financial companies are playing the same credit revolving game !!!! 8) Today's world has inherited three to four costly wars and hostile neighbours , and countries are spending trillions of dollars on them again our money!!!! 9) when a President says Bankers are like sports person , that we cant ask them why they are getting paid so much !!! wow is ays so much about the control on the institutions!! 10) Lalit Modi should be asked to drive the world economy !!!! he will surely ensure that there is no Recession hereafter
People just stay alert and don't fall prey again , spend wisely and save wisely!
Let me start by congratulating the marauding Aussies who won the Hockey World cup with elan and they were the efficacy of efficiency .!
I was elated when the world cup was staged without any hassles like security problem or spectator trouble.I thank all the twelve teams who participated in the competitions despite the difficulties involved and the crowd support was better than expected for all the teams .
All teams together gave a message to the world that terrorism cannot instill fear and the world will overcome terrorism .
But , Indian hockey , has to go a long way before they can even think of finishing in the top 3 or 4!!! first , the board has to put up a proper structure in place and the officials has to take up responsibility for the mistakes or rather blunder . The players has to be more responsible , they just cant strike saying will not practise at a crucial time before world cup!!!!! , money is important but representing the country and playing for that pride should be more important !!! .
Indian hockey should stop blaming cricket and cricketers !!! they have a proper board and they know how to expand their coffers and at the same time , they have started taking responsibility on and off the field too !!!..
Being a National Game , i expect Hockey to be a sport to be reckoned with but unfortunately it will happen only of the Administrators , Players and the support staff take more responsibility.The appalling build up to the world cup and especially the sale of tickets!!! that can happen only in India !!!!
If Hockey India doesn't hold elections ,there is a grave danger that it will disaffiliated form the International hockey federation. I hope Hockey India pull up their socks and start steering the game in the right way .
And yeah India has proved that it is a safe place to be in and sports to be conducted , looking forward to IPL and Common wealth games ..Hope Hockey does will in common wealth Games .
Well, congarts to all oscar winners! .Nice show . It was nice to watch it live too. Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin were good as hosts . The whole show was organised well , and especially i liked the part where selected people were chosen to praise accolades on the leading actors and actress!. This year the oscar's were also different in a way that more than 5 pics were nominated for best pictures and the nominees were from different ethnic background . I personally would like to see more Hispanic's , Afro-Americans being nominated and winning .
My heartiest congratulations too all the winners especially Kathryn Bigelow on her film " The Hurt Locker" winning six including the best film and the best director . It was nice that a woman winning the best director for the first time and its international women's day .( Co-incidence?? Or Planned???). Well, i will leave that to your conclusion .
I would have been Happier if "Avatar" would have walked away with few more awards ( i would have picked Avatar for Best Direction and Picture ) It has set the trend for the future and James created the technology for that !!!
I Loved Sandra Bullock !! wow !! she is hot! , but i really felt let down when Meryl Streep was not awarded the Oscar after being nominated for the record 16th time!!!!.
All in a all , The awards were great ! Just pop in and feel free to post if you have any comments!.
Tiger Woods !!!! ..Awesome Athlete, King Of Golf . The man has reached pinnacle at such an young age .He inspires and make people aspire to be like him .
In the recent past his personal life has been under turmoil , his affairs have become public , currently his marriage hangs in balance , the man is running from pillar to post to save his image and marriage.
Let me ask something , why does have to issue an apology in public for whatever happened in his personal life??? why should he apologise to the whole world ??? why did this happen ??? Well to answer the question , i would have to blame the media !!!! .
Yes, Media is the culprit !!!! why does it have to interfere in his personal life? what bothers the media if there is a rift between him and his wife??? . The mistress are equally to be blamed !!! they just took the opportunity to make money out of the whole episode by selling their interviews to the media at an exhobirant rates!!! To top it all is iam right , a Canadian company is selling a set of golf balls with all Tiger's mistress pictures on them !!! .A Man;s personal Trauma has been commericliased so much .. its reallya pity on media and the people who used his personal pain to make money !!!!!.
The same was the case with Legendary Micheal Jackson !!! Media Killed Him!!!He was neither Lunatic nor crazy as the media projected him.The media gave a divorce to Bradd Pitt and Angelina without their consent ...wow !!!! I pity the celebrities who are under constant media scrutiny and the media is waiting to shred their personal life in to pieces!!.
The people behind media should also realise that they are also doing the same kind of mistake as what the celebrities does . Media should refrain from prying on people's private life and should stick to their ethics!!!!
Behold ! The site of Pyramids , just intoxicates us !
Ancient Monuments or even a small burial ground of our ancient forefathers doesn't fail to make our heartbeat's skip a beat .Breathtaking craftsmanship and yeas , the spellbind architecture are really mind blowing . I really used to and still wonder , were our forefathers were more skillful and geniuses in tapping the full extent of human skill involving mind and body.
The Pyramids , The Stone henge ,The Colosseum The Angkor watts and off course numerous temples in India they are magnificent and they have withstood the test of time .
The architecture , the skill , the craftsmanship and the man power needed!!! how did they conceive such huge structures and how did they even manage to build them . Moving huge blocks of stones or rocks without any modern inventions are really inhuman tasks .I wonder how strong , focused and skillful in executing all the tasks.
The process to build these great structures were time consuming and tedious and in fact ,many empires would have rose and fallen , but still these beauties were constructed and yeah , off course they have withstood everything, changing times , different people , world wars!!!.
Most of the sites were either temples or burial grounds , this shows the importance our ancestors had for our gods and for the dead !!! do we have the same now??
I wonder and amaze , will we know the facts behind how these were constructed !!! Was there a extra -terrestrial help as speculated ??? if so , why they don't help us now ???
Questions to ponder over !! but answers remains elusive !
The word Travel has inspired many and many have aspired for it and the word brings a lot of joy to anyone!.
We can travel to different places , cities , states or across countries , each travelling experience is an unique one and from each experience we learn a lot like cultures, customs and life style !!!.
In the modern times , i.e. today we are even able to travel to space as tourist , which was a distant dream to man not a long ago . What transformation travel has undergone from discovering voyages in the early age to space travel in the modern time ! Indeed Marvellous !.
What captures my imagination even more is Time Travel !! Just the thought gives me goose bumps and sends me into a state of excitement .Just the thought we could just go to the time when the Pyramids were built makes me just excited!.
Time Travel has eluded Man , I keep asking these questions myself is Time Travel Possible ? if possible , how? can we travel to the future or to the Past??? well .. many great personalities have been intrigued by the same thought , H.G Wells to name one .
His book Time Machine stills holds everybody in awe! Trust me iam earning for a machine like that.
There has been numerous debate on how time travel is possible and not possible !! But iam sure one day man will decipher this mystery too ! I have included few references here as for what the scientific world is doing on time travel:
Iam eager to go in to the past , to meet all the great Emperors and Kings and to study their technologies . The Troy war, The Pyramids , Mayans Pyramids , Stone Henge and Anghor watt and many more still remains a mystery to man , to unravel all this .. The Travel to the Past is essential.
Just the amount of knowledge we can gain and and to reprimand of his mistakes in the past, to avoid world wars and to save the extinct animals , to protect the forests , to learn to live with nature so that the Present is not affected just appears to me a bliss!
To travel to the future and to know what blunders we committed and to avoid the same to make our future secure is another great thought.
Ancient world and the Future world , Here we come !!!!!
