CRICKET!!!

What a win!!!. It has been an ultimate turnaround after the disastrous tour of Lanka and Zimbabwe. However we need to be conservative in presenting bouquets as we need to be thoughtful while throwing bricks. It has been just one series , that too in India. A better test would be against South Africa and on the next tour. Let's atleast hold back the cash rewards. The cricketers already earn a lot. The government can spend the money for more needy people.

Things do look better. There is a definite charge in the team akin to the 2003 World Cup dream run.

Ranatunga in his article says that India needs to respect their heroes.

http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=5&theme=&usrsess=1&id=96159

Mr Ranatunga can mind his own business and handle the mess that is Lankan cricket today. Ganguly partly deserves what is being dealt out to him today. If even part of Chappell's mail is true, then he deserves to be kicked out. Of course he is a great player and has led India to great glory, but history has taught us that people ,who tend to live on past glory , tend to perish.

The selection of the Test team to be announced on Nov 28 should be pretty exciting. Laxman, Ganguly, Zaheer and Nehra would be biting their nails in anticipation.

Movie Magic

Ah! the magic of a good song or movie.


I was up since the wee hours of the movie due to a shitty car alarm which kept going on. There was a deadline beating down my back , I decided to use the time to work. Around 10 with a minor headache and sleep beating down my eyes, I thought I should take a break and get back to work around noon. As is the norm with me, before sleeping I switched on the TV and started flipping channels. There it was. Believe me, I love Indian Cinema. I can watch Indian Cinema day in day out, well most of them from Govinda starrers to Kamal Haasan starrers . But there is something in Hollywood that sets them apart. No, I am not fascinated by the sci-fi and ultra modern movies but the stories some of them tell. The movie in question is "Shattered Glass". This is the true story of a young journalist who fell from grace when it was found he had fabricated over half of his articles. I'm sure you will be able to get more info from Google about this. But watch it if you can lay your hands on it. Amazing movie with amazing performances. Now back to work. :-)

Some snaps from my Tirunelveli Trip

Transportation

Had the good fortune of traveling to two diverse cities and experiencing the public transportation system there. I am a Mumbaikar and am very critical of the prevelant transportation system here. The only one reason why thoughts of resettling elsewhere crops up in the devil’s workshop is because of the pathetic roads and overcrowded trains. It takes a minimum of an hour or two to reach office on any given day. Maybe I should negotiate to get that time added to my work timesheet ;-)

Anyways, I had been to Sydney on an official tour and on return immediately went to Tirunelveli, the land of my ancestors. Sydney has a vibrant transportation system – Buses, Trams, Mono Rail, Trains all are functional. After traveling in the congested Mumbai local trains, traveling in the airconditioned double dickered train was a pleasure.

In Tirunelveli, buses are the norm. They have got amazing coverage and frequency. The private sector too runs their own buses and this has increased the competition. The roads are generally well maintained, at least on the routes I was frequenting on.

When will Mumbai rise to the challenge the ever growing population keeps throwing on it? When will traveling in Mumbai be a pleasure?