Lets go! Scrutinize two different personalities and the environment they live in: Ricky Ponting and Rahul Dravid.
Rahul Dravid: Captain of the Indian cricket team
Success Rate as Captain(ODI): 53%
Personal batting avg: 41.5 (approx)
Indian Team batting average(2006 ODI): 30
Indian Team bowling average(2006 ODI):29
Ricky ponting: Captain of the Australian cricket team
Success Rate as Captain(ODI): 81%
Personal batting avg: 42 (approx)
Australian Team batting average(2006 ODI): 36.5
Australian Team bowling average(2006 ODI):26
Points that are worth noticing from the above stats are:
1. Both Captains have similar batting averages
2. Both countries have appreciable batting and bowling averages
3. BUT, Australia has a better success rate.
Now the question is WHY? the million dollar question which every Indian asks, every member in the BCCI is banging there heads on......
You may agree or disagree to the next couple of lines that has been put down as an answer to the above question (No, I do not want the Million dollarthough!) based on my personal observations.
August 2006: My job brought me to Melbourne, Australia. Since past 4 months I observed the people here and have come to conclusion that...unlike us, the Indians, they are very enthusiastic, Sporting, Professional and Sporting people.
They not only like Cricket, they also like Footie, rowing, football, rugby, swimming and lot many other sports....no surprise Melbourne is presently ranked as world's No. 1 sporting City, surpassing Sydney!!
So, people back here enjoy the game...be it on the ground or off the ground.
Aussies back here support their team but do not abuse it when they loose!
Aussies support every game, not expecting to win....but expecting to get the best enjoyment from it...
Hence winning or loosing doesnot matter to them...because they aren't looking for that....as a result they play with less pressure, more confidence and in a more winning fashion...
Hope.....this answers it all.....
Lets not play to win, lets play to enjoy
Lets not support a winning Indian Team and abuse a loosing one, Lets cheer them up for every match what ever the result is.......
Lets enjoy the game....!!!
Saturday, December 30, 2006
Thursday, November 02, 2006
Can we change?
I believe that No one on this planet would love to hurt anyone...But sometimes we do!Under the influence of Situations and Prejudice - the two great evils.
I have always envied the people who would remain calm and would say "yes" to what ever you ask from them....
Lets figure out this together.
When was the last time, you said "NO" to someone,when you could have said "yes"? (offcourse you won't say someone yes, if he/she tells you to kill someone!)
When was the last time, you made someone sad?
When was the last time, you had become the reason of someones smile?
when was the last time, you went to sleep with a smile on your mind?
If we ask ourselves these questions on a regular basis, I believe the answer would come from within us.(offcourse that doesnot hold true for politicians!)
Hope we would change when we meet next time!
I have always envied the people who would remain calm and would say "yes" to what ever you ask from them....
Lets figure out this together.
When was the last time, you said "NO" to someone,when you could have said "yes"? (offcourse you won't say someone yes, if he/she tells you to kill someone!)
When was the last time, you made someone sad?
When was the last time, you had become the reason of someones smile?
when was the last time, you went to sleep with a smile on your mind?
If we ask ourselves these questions on a regular basis, I believe the answer would come from within us.(offcourse that doesnot hold true for politicians!)
Hope we would change when we meet next time!
Friday, October 06, 2006
Knowing the true colours.
7th, October, 2006- Melbourne,Aus.
Well, its true that you know a person only when you spend a lot of time with them or when that person earns a lot of money.
I experienced it in Melbourne, when I travelled down here to address my job needs.
People whom I have respected a lot (off-course not out of age) for their attitude towards work and life, have turned out to be hypocrites here!
People who had always returned a smile in India would turn their face away and say do not disturb me now!
And I strongly believe that this is the case with many of us,isn't it?
well, then the question is what exactly has happened? Have we changed as well?
To be true... I believe that one must not care if the other person behaves rudely or has changed a lot, just enjoy your life and see to it that you do not hurt others.
Because there are always other things and other people which/who are more important than these things.
Love life, Live Life ....
Well, its true that you know a person only when you spend a lot of time with them or when that person earns a lot of money.
I experienced it in Melbourne, when I travelled down here to address my job needs.
People whom I have respected a lot (off-course not out of age) for their attitude towards work and life, have turned out to be hypocrites here!
People who had always returned a smile in India would turn their face away and say do not disturb me now!
And I strongly believe that this is the case with many of us,isn't it?
well, then the question is what exactly has happened? Have we changed as well?
To be true... I believe that one must not care if the other person behaves rudely or has changed a lot, just enjoy your life and see to it that you do not hurt others.
Because there are always other things and other people which/who are more important than these things.
Love life, Live Life ....
Monday, June 12, 2006
BACK to PAST!
Well This is no science fiction or Time machine truth...
I went to Raurkela after 6 years...long time to visit a place where you have finished up your school, made life time friends and last but not the least a place where you have so many memories attached with....
It was really nostalgic two days in Raurkela; I visited my school M.G.M and it still remais the same except for the school buses painted yellow and a basket ball ground at the sports arena.
Though the summer vacation was on yet i could see myself running through the corridors...it's so recent!
I went to the place where we lived, Sector 18...the football ground is still present there but, yes a new breed playing there game now....I met a few of our neighbours and they were really surprised to see me after such a long time....
As i boarded the train to return back to Kolkata i asked to myself that have am I growing OLD...is time passing by....but then its true miles to go before I sleep.....
I went to Raurkela after 6 years...long time to visit a place where you have finished up your school, made life time friends and last but not the least a place where you have so many memories attached with....
It was really nostalgic two days in Raurkela; I visited my school M.G.M and it still remais the same except for the school buses painted yellow and a basket ball ground at the sports arena.
Though the summer vacation was on yet i could see myself running through the corridors...it's so recent!
I went to the place where we lived, Sector 18...the football ground is still present there but, yes a new breed playing there game now....I met a few of our neighbours and they were really surprised to see me after such a long time....
As i boarded the train to return back to Kolkata i asked to myself that have am I growing OLD...is time passing by....but then its true miles to go before I sleep.....
Monday, May 15, 2006
RESERVATION: A leap backwards!
Caution Notice: I have written this blog keeping in mind that WE Indians still have a voice and we do not need politicians to meddle with us. We are bold enough to stand up to anything that is wrong...So anyone who is reading this blog with a divided mind may please absatian from the same; because you need to be on either side of the road, being in between would do nothing but crush you.
Well, I as a citizen of Free democratic India believe, that everyone of us should get equal rights in every field.
The moment I think this, I do not abstain the SCs, STs and OBCs from it.
Today, I accept that at one point of time our bretherens were subjected to atrocities based on caste system; at that point of time our ancestors had this in there heart and mind...
But, Today....the scenario is differnet..
Education has chaged it a lot...
I donot believe in cast system anymore..let me naarate a story to you...
Manoj was a close friend of mine...
We had shared tiffins, Good and bad times...but all that changed when he got into one of the premier engineering colleges of INDIA, even when he had secured a rank much lower than me; reason being he was in the reserved category......
Well I was sad at that point of time, but I understood that knowledge cannot be reserved....
when I saw him not faring well in his college exams....Sad but true...
And this is how a goverment; which is by the people, for the people and of the people...changes the relationships betwen its citizens...and nurtures ill will...I never saw manoj as a backward class member but Government made me to see it....should I say my eyes opened to the stark reality
I believe reservations should be made for the weaker sections of the society not based on knowledge but rather, on will to learn...and that can be gauged through competitive exams.
By reservation I believe you make that class more weaker and vulnerable....since my friend Manoj is still searching for a job...!
Well, I as a citizen of Free democratic India believe, that everyone of us should get equal rights in every field.
The moment I think this, I do not abstain the SCs, STs and OBCs from it.
Today, I accept that at one point of time our bretherens were subjected to atrocities based on caste system; at that point of time our ancestors had this in there heart and mind...
But, Today....the scenario is differnet..
Education has chaged it a lot...
I donot believe in cast system anymore..let me naarate a story to you...
Manoj was a close friend of mine...
We had shared tiffins, Good and bad times...but all that changed when he got into one of the premier engineering colleges of INDIA, even when he had secured a rank much lower than me; reason being he was in the reserved category......
Well I was sad at that point of time, but I understood that knowledge cannot be reserved....
when I saw him not faring well in his college exams....Sad but true...
And this is how a goverment; which is by the people, for the people and of the people...changes the relationships betwen its citizens...and nurtures ill will...I never saw manoj as a backward class member but Government made me to see it....should I say my eyes opened to the stark reality
I believe reservations should be made for the weaker sections of the society not based on knowledge but rather, on will to learn...and that can be gauged through competitive exams.
By reservation I believe you make that class more weaker and vulnerable....since my friend Manoj is still searching for a job...!
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
What's NEW and HAPPY about 2006?
Well we are into another Year...YEAR 2006... Every corner of the world celebrated it... from TimeSquare to Sydney...People frolicking around, partying....wishing each other a "Happy New Year"....But alas! I think (others might not) whats New and Happy about this Year?
At this point of time it would seem a bit pessimistic...but hold on... Lets See the reality...
Time: 31st night, 2005.
France- the Fashion Capital of the world - was burning; Reason - Racial & Ethinic differences. Bihar, India .... 6 people Burnt alive; Reason - Racial and Cast differences.
Astreet in any place in the world: a poor kid asking for 2 bucks for his dinner...
A home any where in the world: A fight between Father-Son, Mother- daughter, brothers, sisters and couples! and many more such incidents if we look around....
it might not have happened with you....but you are vulnerable too... and still we go on to celebrate wishing every one a "Happy New year".....
But wait...I am not that pessimistic... We still have Good positive things happening around... and the best thing thats happening is that everyone, from every corner of the world gets his/her Faith Renewed...Faith that every thing would turn right one day, Faith that no one would go to sleep hungry any more, Faith that no more killings...Faith that a day when every thing would turn Golden, Faith that a day when we wish every one "Enjoy Life" rather than wishing "Happy New year"......
But till then theres lot many years to come.....and here, I am sitting in a dangy Internet cafe....Wishing the whole world "A Happy New Year"......Do Enjoy Life..!
At this point of time it would seem a bit pessimistic...but hold on... Lets See the reality...
Time: 31st night, 2005.
France- the Fashion Capital of the world - was burning; Reason - Racial & Ethinic differences. Bihar, India .... 6 people Burnt alive; Reason - Racial and Cast differences.
Astreet in any place in the world: a poor kid asking for 2 bucks for his dinner...
A home any where in the world: A fight between Father-Son, Mother- daughter, brothers, sisters and couples! and many more such incidents if we look around....
it might not have happened with you....but you are vulnerable too... and still we go on to celebrate wishing every one a "Happy New year".....
But wait...I am not that pessimistic... We still have Good positive things happening around... and the best thing thats happening is that everyone, from every corner of the world gets his/her Faith Renewed...Faith that every thing would turn right one day, Faith that no one would go to sleep hungry any more, Faith that no more killings...Faith that a day when every thing would turn Golden, Faith that a day when we wish every one "Enjoy Life" rather than wishing "Happy New year"......
But till then theres lot many years to come.....and here, I am sitting in a dangy Internet cafe....Wishing the whole world "A Happy New Year"......Do Enjoy Life..!
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