Anil Kumble with 600+ wickets and still counting

I watched an interview of Anil Kumble some time back where he said that he would like his son to be a batsman, instead of a bowler. Coming from someone who is the 3rd highest Test wicket taker in the World and India's best match winner, that is quite an indictment of the way cricket is run and followed in this country.

 

 

Going by the old rule of each wicket equalling 20 runs (in my humble opnion, a wicket is much more valuable. Simply because if we were to play using pen and paper, 20 runs per wicket equals 200 runs per innings, which we know is not enough to win a Test), 600 wickets equals 12000 Test runs. And just contrast the mass affection, hysteria, awards, endorsements, etc. that a batsman with 12000 Test runs in the same team gets. The BCCI needs to wake up and look into this malaise at the earliest. For if Anil Kumble doesn't want his son to be a bowler, then God help our future bowlers.

Mumbai's Traffic faster than the fastest Snail!

Came across this excellently written satire in today's (6th Feb 2008) edition of DNA. However, couldn't find the same in the online version.

 

Mercifully, Amit Verma's blog had a link to this article

 

 

What has the Sethu Samudram canal project got to do with Indian culture?

As per http://in.rediff.com/news/2007/dec/10rss.htm

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has said it will not allow the Centre to go ahead with the Sethusamudram ship canal project as it posed a "challenge" to Indian culture.

"The RSS is not prepared to make any compromise on the Centre's move to implement the project as it would be a clear instance of grave injustice to the majority people of India," RSS leader K S Sudarshan said inaugurating two-day regional meeting of the outfit in Kasargod in Kerala

I wonder, what has the canal project got to do with the nation's culture?

Islam’s Silent Moderates

The WTF news item of the week. A great way to start a
Monday!  Islam's Silent Moderates! 

As the article rightly states, 

"If moderate Muslims believe there should be no compassion shown to the girl from Qatif, then what exactly makes them so moderate?

When a "moderate" Muslim's sense of compassion and conscience collides with matters prescribed by Allah, he should choose compassion. Unless that happens much more widely, a moderate Islam will remain wishful thinking."

 Link via Where's the Moderate Muslim? 

Scavenging, a spiritual experience for Dalits: Modi

Really, to what depths can our politicians plunge?

Narendra Modi in his yet-to-be-released book, "Karmayog", says, ""At
some point in time somebody must have got enlightenment in scavenging.
They must have thought that it is their duty to work for the happiness
of the entire society and the Gods."

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/scavenging-a-spiritual-experience-for-dalits-modi/53024-3.html

I'm speechless. Words fail me.

Regards,

Anand Chakrapani

Man gambles wife!

Check this link!

Man gambles wife in Bihar village

As if this was not disgusting enough, check the last para in the above story:

"In another incident, a married woman gambled herself in a game of dice during Durga Puja festivities in a village in Banka district. The victor took her home. Two days later fellow villagers intervened and took the woman back to her husband's house."

Banka district seems to have liberated women. I mean, isn't this is a classic case of "liberated" women who gamble themselves. And that too, during the Durga Puja, when we celebrate and worship goddesses.


Link via Amit Gupta

Anti terrorism cartoons from the middle east

Check this link!


http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=IA39807

Not a bad thing at all!