Will I ever be free??

When I take up an issue of social importance,and try and pen down my views,i am left utterly confused,to say the least.The issues are far too many and at first glance seems too varied to cover with the limited knowledge of the world that i have.

But look at any problem we have,from national to local level,be it acute poverty,dismal health care and education system,to poor sanitation…u get the idea,right.The biggest mystery then:What forms the core of all these myriad and seemingly never ending problems that we face?

Is our political class responsible, which lacks the vision n the will to implement the innumerable welfare projects,but do have cunningness to siphone off the money being poured down in the schemes.This they do with so much impunity,that one wonders whether the Constitution of India(CoI) which was thought out by the then politicians-cum-freedom fighters,was written to hand over the power to “rule”(rather than serve) from the British to a class of people that is willing to make personal gains by any means possible,the kind that is the majority in our country;that the  makers of the CoI had the misconception that their countrymen were indeed ready to work for collective good,the process of which the government is only the reflection of the collective consciousness,and thus effectively the tool by which the citizens can implement their betterment in an inclusive manner.But the 60 odd years of our so called independence proves otherwise.

We were indeed not ready.We blame our political class,but that is not that is not the complete truth.We all need to ask ourselves what we do in our daily life apart from amassing means for our personal lives,what we do for the society.Yes,it is possible to justify  most of our actions on the grounds that we need to fend for ourselves.But what is certainly not justified is our complacency,the blind eye and the deaf ear that we put on display.”All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing”.We learn to put our moral n social responsibility on the backburner very early in our lives,and this attitude has lead to the decay of the feeling of national belongingness,that which was at its zenith when we were led by Mahatma Gandhi.

The question remains ,what do we do now?Where should we direct  our intellect,anger,dissatisfaction towards?

iTs alwaYz a plAyzer

One of those matches that keeps u glued to ur screen for the whole time,right upto the very last ball.And to the last ball it went,and seing austrailia go down is "always a pleasure".I dont know y its like that,but i guess the reason is that i have seen them dominate the world cricket for far too long,and a change feels good.
but hats off to Shane Watson!!

Hindustan:Banka Sanskaran-Khel

Need 148 off 107,having three more to walk back to the dressing room.Zaheer Khan swinging the blade like a katana for watever he can manage.This is the Indian team in the 1st ODI of the MTN series in Durban,SA.Synopsis:bouncy fast track and the rest is just simple enuf to paint vivid.But I hav got nothing else to do,so.
Oh!and Raina walks back.

The number one test team has been too inconsistent in ODIs.And this is the way it begins most of the series in the recent past,faltering badly initially,to recover later in the series.
Right from the beginning of the Indian innings,the match was never evenly poised.Sachin and Murli were done in quickly,and the rest of the middle order was exposed to the ruthless pace and bounce of SAn bowlers, especially 6'5" Morkel.Having landed in Alkebulan just four days ago,Rohit Sharma and Yuvi cud not cope.The way they were playing seemed as if they wer protesting that they shud hav been called sooner.
As has been the case for more than a year now,Kohli showed the technique and the temperament of a matured class cricketer;why he does not get a chance in test cricket while Murli Vijay does is beyond me.
Just when Dhoni and Kohli decided to kick up the tempo,Dhoni had to face the most unfortunate dismissal a batsman can have,run out at the non-striker's end,the shot just boucing off the bowler's hand and hitting the stumps.Raina came in and was forced to reveal his fear of short balls,that he survived somehow.But Kohli got out next over trying to loop out a delivery for four,to take advantage of the batting powerplay the team had just taken.And the match was all but finished!!

a view and an angle-The Kite Runner

The protagonist,Amir, is a pashtun,a sunni muslim ,born in Kabul,Afghanistan to a rich man.He grew up wid Hasan, a boy his age,son of Ali,a shia muslim,a hazara and servant to Amir’s father.

I wudnt go into the story to spoil off the fiction that, at stages, unfolds tragedically.

"Amir and Hasan.The Sultans of Kabul"

True to the undiscriminating nature of children, this social boundary means little. Amir and Hasan are best friends,until a brutal act of jealousy-induced violence topped off with a just as brutal act of betrayal, changed everything.

Through the relationship between them , Hosseini takes us into the ditches of our heart,and explores the intricacies of human mind and soul...how we continue to see "differences" amongst us ,even though we remain oblivious to them,how the social bulwark between us may prevent us from amassing up the courage to stand for the one we love most,how guilt may suck you down like a voracious worm,even though you try to pole-vault and move on,how the heart always remains pure and seeks redemption for itself.
It also defines the "blood-ties" in a very intimate and poignant way;the dilemma that faces a man torn into two is well penned down.
In the background is the unfortunate de-establishment of monarch in Afghanistan and sequential rule by the roshawis,then the northern alliance and finally by the taliban;and how each rule contributed to turning Kabul(in particular) and Afghanistan(in general) to the hell it had become for its own people.

May be the best fiction I have read. Have’nt seen the movie yet,but has been compelled to do so now.
"Quiet is peace.Tranquility.Quiet is turning down the VOLUME knob on life.Silence is pushing the OFF button,Shutting it down. All of it."

at last i “saw” it

today i watched RAMBO IV(or john rambo)

the only thing that sylvester stallone has done different in this movie is that it has got much much more blood than all the previous ones.

d impact of bullets makes body parts go flying ,or better still d enemy is cut into half.

i think it deserves a place in line along wid the likes of "hostel" n the bone-rattling "saw" series.

and also that the series must stop if he has got nothing more interesting and different to add.