Friday, April 23, 2010

Nothing stops at the scene of your eyes.. everything goes far beyond!!!!

Standing on the platform 1 of a metro station called 'Yamuna Bank' in Noida, I finally heaved a sigh of relief to realise that my home is just a station away. Waiting for my train to arrive, I looked at the fence limiting the premises. I could catch a sight of two metro rail tracks spreaded out, as I opened my eyelids a bit more I could see 5-10 railway tracks and then a whole lot of woods, beyond which I could see a flock of headlights, it was a busy highway. Everytime I sensed a new thing, I tried to stop myself and think about it, but as I moved on there was much more to see, percieve and appreciate. Life is so full of all the goods around, to make you feel contented about being living in this world; but what all we remember is IPL scam, terrorism, corruption and poverty. How many times do we appreciate the positive lights among these darkened lanes? Moreover,How many times do we think of lighting a lamp in these lanes? Today, a stranger told me to believe in good, trust in positives of life and have faith in my own self. The stranger is well recognized as Kousani Roy,the known host to many Bengali television shows, who tweeted "neither to harm nor be harmed"...

IPL-Is it the next big scam after Satyam?

CRICKET has always been a worship for the country. India has been very synonymous to "the cricketing nation". The originality of game deteriorated with T20 but the enjoyment increased and the people accepted it with open arms. Suddenly, why is the essence of the game being lost? IPL has been the biggest and most successful cricket league till date. The flaw at the managerial level has spreaded its clutches and reached the spirit of the game. The money flow in the league is not justified yet; and the connections travel from all the poosible reasons from mafia to industrialists to betting to match fixing and even to cross border links. Eveybody is here to earn, be it the management, the franchisees, the players and everybody related to it. But not at all at the cost of game-value or killing the soul of the sport. The question arises, at the end of it all, BCCI remains the umbrella for all the cricketing going on in India. Is this really the first time that BCCI realised about the money movement within the IPL? Though the demand of JPC (joint parliament committee) for the investigation is very well understood and acceptable, would it serve the purpose of an honest and foolproof fact-finding? After the sleek involvement of an educated and sensible minister of External Affairs, Mr. Tharoor, is anybody else reliable enough to hand over the responsibility? The web that has been knit around the scandal is being tracked only after Kochi team franchisee got into questions. Starting from Mr. Shashi Tharoor, whom the younger generation looked upto, the controversy exposed Mr. Modi's deeds, switching on to Mr. Patel,Mr. Pawar, and whos who of the Indian Politics are being dragged and truely cracked.

The question remains... Is IPL the next BIG scam after Satyam? Is this the end of the "money-spinning legendary T20 tournament"?

Monday, April 12, 2010

So much tolerated.. what do you hold next, Dear India?

"India is a master of underplaying..." Is this the reason naxalism and terrorism never stopped in India?? When will we start acting in place of reacting over it? Injustice has been done to one and all in the country and will go on. Since the transfer of power(i.e. wat we call independence day), the difference between the rich and the poor, the sufferings and the injustice remains. If considered the statistics, not more than 2-3% of the Indian population is sufferer of these evils called naxalism and terrorism. The responsibility of reminding the rest 97% still continues.
Though there can be a very harsh and violent reaction that India can propose, but what after that? What about the international relations that we would be at loss of? At the same time, the issue arises who's dying with the disease of naxalism and terrorism? Is it Indians or Internationals?
The behavior of the country has helped build the relations it has in the years passing by. India carries the tag of Peaceful and Friendly nation since long. But terrorism is one problem we need to act strictly, and not just react. In the race of achieving these tags, India has been quite unfair to its own citizens and majorly not reacting properly is due to "continuous Political disputes" and minor reason is "the well planned image building".
At the same time, the issue arises who's dying with the disease of naxalism and terrorism? Is it Indians or Internationals?
That is the issue and the government is still from one among us. Somewhere down the line, once getting out of these discussions even our minds are more involved in what to do for our families, friends and jobs!!!!!! How much do we as a person, as an alert citizen think of doing about these issues. But the matter of fact is that everyone has been assigned a task and we can only expect them to do it properly.Everybody getting down to action is quite a difficult situation.