Mumbai Terror —India again the hot target!!

The after math of the CST station(Courtesy CNN site).

A Terrified and shaken India again…..these two days have been nightmare for not only the people of Mumbai and the stuck tourists in the hotels but for each one of us looking at those harrowing scenes of blood spattered people, roads and stations again n again.

Are we really growing stronger with each attack leaving hundreds dead and putting the country in a chaos……. or are we actually getting immunised and indifferent with each one of these incidents…

Can a government be any more incompetent and lame. I guess they thought that people are not enough harassed with growing commodity prices and inflation as well as job cuts so why not just take away the national security as well…..How could a government treading in this kind of a geographical and demographic location debate on stricter terrorism laws(any kind of law can be abused, with any law that is framed I’m sure there can be enough precautions taken so that it’s not aimed at the wrong person….I mean if that’s the bone of contention).

Wonder how many more lives and blasts are going to happen before this hopeless government takes some actions and actually make their own people and foreigners feel safe in this country!

 

Marriages – and people getting into it!!

These 3 weeks are going to be the most “marriage invitation” infested weeks that i ever had.

Now since i stay out of my home around India for most of the time, I really don’t get to attend marriages, I mean the bengali ones which though a matter of debate is one of the most delightful place to be in if you are a food connoisseur or rather a foodie!!

Anyways this time its not anybodies marriage that i can just whine and forget about but these are- so called special times for my really really close group of friends who for some reasons getting married at almost the same time, I mean who knew where peer pressure can land people in.

However in this case most of my friends had partners to get married with, some honestly were going around for quite sometime, some were friends, some acquaintances, I mean those who were really running in this “Get married this year competition” could stand in line with their better halves –> that they would find out anyways in due course of time, I sincere think unlike some of my friends is that that the pleasure of marriage for men is in push( well this is really a crude way of looking at it but we love it) but sometimes it can come round to you as getting pushed at or worse getting shoved up ours….if our better halves are better in everything else other than what you had expected of her.

Now that’s really mean of me, Marriages are something which is really special, a BIG decision in our life to take responsibility and share our life with the chosen one…. etc… etc …etc….

I guess they are really ready to do it with whom ever they could with whom ever they should…

The worst affected people in this whole thing are not the bride or the groom or the stereotypical bride’s father or his family, its the friends or well the unmarried ones AKA ME.

 Now i really wanted to shout out and say that ‘m not ready to get into it or i still am not bored to death with myself or my social life is fine thank you….Seriously world is not at its end even if we are trying our level best to do that and as far as i know women are still not listed in the endangered species category….but alas you get to field such silly questions or asked to meet or are shown people in the party who you had never seen before (come to think of it i don’t quite disapprove it since you get to have ready introduction to a chick) and then you get that “funny grin with the dancing eyebrow” look from the self styled marriage brokers. Honestly this did not happened to me or rather not yet…but this time ‘m not really sure.

Anyways I’m really looking forward to it…I mean the marriage and meeting friends part…and sincerely hope and wish they does a one up on each other in terms of food at the party ;-)

Dada’s last series- A winning one with Aussies!!

Ganguly’s last series went through a real roller coaster as his cricketing life itself.

 

Fantastic come back by the Australia on the third and fourth day…but the last day of this Historic series was near perfect, with spinners doing the work, the fielders, well dropped some catches as usual which is expected from India.

However this series showed we have out performed Australia in more ways than one with batsmen’s contribution and bowlers’ perfect execution. The thing which i liked about this one is that the pitch this time was all world standard and is not typically a spinning one. Eight years back this day, Ganguly started his innings of becoming the India’s most successful captain. Well leaving all the bias i would say Ganguly not only showed a new face of Indian cricket, aggressive, competitive but also a team really to reckon with. Dhoni probably did the best thing in the last day by asking him to captain in the final moments of the game after missing a sitter early in the day.

A real historic day for Indian Cricket where Indians totally dominated the series and shook the Australian cricket’s post after a long long time, and an end of Ganguly era which showed no regionalism and partiality and probably  gave India the best players of this era.

Over-all Ganguly can be really happy going out in such a high( i don’t even remember if there is any Indian circketer off-let who retired in such a note) looking at his prodigies doing well and shouldering India forward.