IPL ’09 (Season 2)

I’m back after a month. In this summer, I like to write about one of the hottest topics. IPL strikes in my mind. As you know, this year it’s being held in South Africa. I’m not happy about this since I planned to see at-least a match @ Eden Gardens. Let’s hope next year IPL at India.

I need to highlight some dark areas. First, even in South Africa, elections are going on in parallel with IPL. How? Secondly, last year, Pakistan’s cricket coach, Bob Woolmer, murdered in SA. And we couldn’t find the murderer yet. What ever the reasons are, IPL is missing Indian audience. Anyway, let’s hope best and the world should free from terrorism.

Contradictory from last year, IPL’08 Champion, Rajastan Royals, and runner-up, Chennai Super Kings are in the bottom of the points table and of course, as usual, RC Bangalore and Kolkata KR are sharing among them. But 8th ranked DC Hyderabad is in the top. There are lots of changes in team as well as captaincy. My home team, CSK, and my support team, KKR, won only 1 match till date. Some matches, they are having good batting line up but not in bowling and in other matches, vice versa. Come on Dhoni!!!

I won’t miss Fake IPL Player’s blog. Please visit http://fakeiplplayer.blogspot.com . I read some of his posts and found little interesting but God only knows if he/she caught.

See you in next blog. May be election.

The White Tiger

Everyone knows India as a developing and second highest populated country, an IT hub, a home of intellect people and entrepreneurs. But there is another part rather dark side of India. Poverty, slums, innocent poor, bribing politics, accidents, etc are those. Aravind Adiga, a brilliant writer, highlighted the dark areas of our developing country through Balaram Halwai. He deserved to win Booker’s prize.

In the book’s opening pages, Halwai begins to tell the Chinese Premier the story of his life. We are introduced to the poverty of rural Bihar, and the evil of the feudal landlords. After his father’s death, Balaram, as a typical rural guy, fled to urban for a job. There, he learnt driving with the help of taxi drivers. When luck and a ruthless eye for the main chance land him a driving job in the “Light” of New Delhi with one of the landlords’ families, the moral darkness only increases.
As a driver, the author describes how Indian drivers (few) are watching their boss activities and how they are misusing their owner’s car as a share cab. Yeah, its true actually, here in kolkata, there are shuttle between Sector V and airport, parkcircus and Sector V, Park Circus and Karnamoyee, etc. not only the private cars but also travel agency cars.

One rainy day in Delhi, he crushed the skull of his employer and stole a bag containing a large amount of money, capital that financed his Bangalore taxi business. That business — ferrying technology (call centre) workers to and from their jobs — depends, in turn, on keeping the police happy with the occasional bribe.

As a parable of the developing India, Balaram’s tale shows how a poor becoming an entrepreneur through roguish criminal and also the land of corruption, poverty and inequality. In short, A. A. highlights the dark side of India.

But don’t forget about poor people like Dr. Abdul Kalam. There are more tons of good people in India.

Barack Obama

US Presidential election 2008 is scheduled on Nov 4. Barack Obama from Illinois is competing with John Mcclain. Obama has been chosen as nominee for Democratic Party. As usual today morning, I was surfing my TV channels for some interesting program. I came across Obama talk in BBC. It was a live telecast from Denver. His talk was attracting and inspiring one. There were 84,000 spectators. Here are some points of talk.

1. US should stop its dependencies on foreign countries for oil within 10 years.

2. Avail good education to children and raise the salaries for teachers.

3. Cut down the 95% of taxes of working families.

4. If we are together, our dream is one

5. Keep American promises

6. US should stop war on Iraq.

If you get a chance to see his talk, then don’t miss it.