Positives & Negatives

It was a hard earned vacation for me when I got to go home last week after almost 8 months. During my one week stay in home, I had planned to meet few of my friends working in Kerala. After a little confusion over the date and venue, four of us who had spent four years together in the college finally turned out for the get together. Late on that evening when most of us were riding high on alcohol, watching rain from balcony of the resort that faces the riverside, the ambiance was poetic and the mood philosophical. Moved by all these, one among us blurted out “What does it takes for a person to get loved?”. A friend of mine who has developed an aversion to alcohol recently and now seeking solace in fruit juice replied him directly; “I love you because your positives outweighs the negatives”. A witty friend who was unable to take in anymore of this heavyheaded discussion commented quickly “eda avan juice kudichu kindi ayi”, which roughly translates into, “He has got the high from juice”. It soon got everyone of us rolling in splits of laughter.

Spare Them!

The World Cup has progressed into Super Eights with the Indian team, already been shown the door after the league itself. Our players has comeback from the Caribbean islands but, for few Indian fans who were seen waving the tri-color in the grounds where we were supposed to play Australia & New Zealand in the super eights.The news daily TOI which has long back stooped into the levels of yellow journalism has spotted our captain soaking himself up on the sea waters in Kovalam and by them he couldn't have opted for a better place for he could have felt himself being in the Caribbean islands even now. A very bad Joke indeed. Back to the visual media, their postmortem continues till today from the day of India's exit and then they extort people to send sms on whether Sachin should continue in the team. Oh come on, His name has almost been the synonym of Indian cricket for the last seventeen years and for the true followers of the game he has set new standards in the ball game. Be it the sheer beauty of his cover drive or the mesmerizing square cut that sends the ball screaming across the point or the adrenaline rush that we felt when he ran down the pitch to loft the ball across the boundary, he has given us enough to cherish the moments we spent watching him play.It's really sad to see the question of his continuance in the team being subjected to the answers of people who are dumb enough to send sms's to these shows for he knows his game better these fans. He has played his last World Cup and he might have failed to reenact what he had done before, but that doesn't bring down the value of what he is to the team and to the game of cricket now. At least they should have spared him from the torture of this kind.


P.S: When quizzed on whom does he think is responsible for India's exit from the world Cup, a witty fan replied thus:"isn't it Indira Gandhi who is responsible, for she created Bangladesh or isn't it Hanuman who is responsible, for he didn't destroy Lanka"!.