paxil and similar drugs…

Raj singh incidentally also tried to take on Sunil Gavaskar on an issue I don’t remember and said that former superstars should not interfere with cricketing matters or something like that. What kapil Dev has written about Raj singh in his autobiography is hardly complimentary. It is good that cricket is so transparent otherwise it would not be too difficult for the board to surpress superestars too. Kapil Dev has written about how the board never lets a captain be too powerful.

Talking of office politics and the teacher incident reminds me of My management guru, a Bengali gentelman called Ashish kundu. He was told by his boss once to do the chores for him in Russia of all places. Ashish curtly told him that he was an Engineer MBA from IIFT and he would do know such thing. Much to my delight, he proved to be a management prodigy and went on to get three double promotions in one year and thrash everybody out of sight before outclassing the chairman hiself. So much so that he inspired a poem out of me which is on my website. All bosses who behave like that deseve such treatment. Unfortunately, my own father has such proclivities and the explanation is that the managers of the sixties and seventies are like this. Well, this is the 21st century and they should change.

What you have written about the studnet is disgraceful and unpardonable. In my time there used to be a music teacher who used to charge, fling himself on the students and just beat them up and humiliated his tabla subordinate repeatedly for whom we felt very sorry. The prupose of education is to draw out the potential of a human being(my blog Make your passion your profession). That is the literal meaning of the word education. Teachers are not even aware of that. Then where is the jusftification in such behavior which even normally is disgraceful. It would not be surprising if the student tries to take revenge hindi movie style.

CLASSIC , I am you newest fan ( atleast when I write this ) .

Sachin @ preetisachins.blogspot.com

What great pleasure you get from bashing RSD – no doubt because RSD
himself revels in bashing your “favorite cricketer”.

Well here is something that was shown not on India uncut (or whatever that is), but in a live cricket match. Tendulkar and Ganguly were opening the batting in a one dayer. In the middle of a longish partnerhisp, they called for water. 12th man (a former Punjab offie – can’t recall his name, but I remember the turban even now) – came in with two water bottles. Sachin took off his gloves and took a bottle and helped himself. Your favorite cricketer (though not mine), simply turned up his snout for the poor 12th man to pour in water into his mouth.

Real team man your Ganguly and a perfect example for all Indian cricket captains to follow.

Who was abusing power in this situation? I pity that teacher.

@Debashish: The picture, as you point out, is insufficient evidence for calling Raj Singh “highhanded”—only in a court of law. The circumstantial evidence (as Michael points out, the mere fact that Amit who was present there posted the picture on his blog is proof enough that this picture was itself a snapshot of Dungarpur’s attitude–nothing happened after this) says otherwise.

Dont think the drinks-carrying responsibility of the 12th man was originally meant to be humiliating.

@Michael: Yes it is rather vivid

@Yuvraj: Yes I feel sorry for Jaffer—doubly so because he loses a place in the Indian batting order to Sourav—who really should not be playing this Test.

@yourfan2: We all know that Cricinfo has severely compromised its journalistic impartiality of late—and in an unrelated (wink wink) development Rahul Dravid graces the cover of their newly launched print magazine sprouting wholly-unDravid like controversial statements targeted at you-know-who. Did you hear the sound of mutual backrubbing here ?

@Anon: Thank you, much appreciated.

@Bengali guy: I still cant decide if this is true or one more arrow from Parnab’s quiver of auto-generated facts.

@Bonatellis: Exactly. And Kapil Dev during his domestic cricket days used to be sent out by his seniors to get cigarettes.

@Ajay: Thank you.

@HP: This Raj Singh-Lata Mangeskar thing is most interesting.

@Dev: Thank you…more one liners coming right up.

@Rani: The royalty thing is just one more layer to Dungheap’s arrogance. Pataudi is another extremely arrogant man—though I have great respect for his cricketing brain.

@Esdee: Thank you…

@Gaurav: Thank you for dropping in. Yes you are as right.

@Anthony: Looking fwd to your political posts.

@Amit: Illuminating links…

@Ashit: Amazing stuff from Pakistan. But to be fair there was nothing in the pitch for the first 2 days—if we had won the toss, there was a high chance we would also be in a similar position. As to Ganguly’s selection, I dont think it was a wise one—considering the form Jaffer was in in the tour match and that sending Sourav as an opener would be unfair to him.

@Anon: All I can say is that poem confirms my thesis that Sourav-bashing is frequently a cover for Bong-bashing. But I appreciate the rhyme scheme.

@Srin: Details please.

@Sunil: Go back to India. Become a prof and have a steady stream of underlings for all eternity.

@Tanuj: Sourav is lazy. That may be true. But at least he has a record of performance and sterling achievements. Which cannot be said for the Raj.

@Vishal: You seem to be obsessed with urination man. Do take a shower wearing a gold ring.