Monthly Archive for January, 2008

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Kangaroo Courts and Bent Umpires

Published on January 7, 2008 in Cricket. 156 Comments

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There’s a point at which political correctness and politeness of phrase have to be jettisoned in favor of brutal directness — of calling a spade a spade and a cheat a cheat.

So all you people talking about the abysmal umpiring from Bucknor and Benson in the second Test of the Border-Gavaskar trophy, get it straight. What we saw at Sydney was not incompetence but openly biased decision-making with Australia universally benefiting from almost all the wrong decisions (except when Ponting was given leg before wicket of an inside edge but many runs after he had already enjoyed grandpa Benson’s indulgent eye when his huge snick behind of Ganguly had been overlooked), with even the third umpire getting into the Cricket Australia act by his sparing of Symonds from a stumping decision.

Have you no shame sirs?

Of course you don’t.

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Bhakti Mein Shakti

Published on January 3, 2008 in Silly. 26 Comments

Anu Solanki (24) told her husband that she was going to immerse a statue of Ganesha in the river. She left her car running and vanished. Only to resurface a few days later, alive and well, with another man but not before $25,000 $250,000 of public money had been spent looking for her. Her husband Dignesh Solanki was shocked at her flight, though he did remember seeing romantic SMS-s that he himself had not sent on his wife’s phone two days “after” they were married a year ago.

Moral of the story: Next time your wife says she is driving down to the river, alone, with devotion for Ganesha/ Narayana/Shiva in her eyes, just check her cellphone to see if they have been leaving messages for her.

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Tears For Fears

Published on January 2, 2008 in Politics. 96 Comments

It has been said that we Indians, as a nation, lack a sense of history. Well going by the “candle burned out long before the legend ever will” Benazir hysteria that was unleashed in Indian news channels and media outlets in the last week, I would say we have no sense of current affairs either.

I don’t blame the Irish for giving Benazir Bhutto a posthumous peace prize with the citation “fought all her battles through dialogue and political debate and was an example to all those who do not use or surrender to terrorism”. [They should have just added "financial probity" in the citation while they were at it and we could at least have a good laugh] After all why should they remember Ms. Bhutto’s legacy of hate and violence when we in India,who were at the receiving end of her “political debate” and her “peaceful dialogue” , have forgotten everything?

Such is our amnesia that our “perennially-bent-at-the-waist” Prime Minister calls Benazir “one of the outstanding leaders of our sub-continent, who always looked for reconciliation between India and Pakistan”.

Yeah right.

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