Why Sachin should not be awarded Bharata Ratna

My hatred for UPA has reached the threshold. How could they even think of tweaking the eligibility criteria for the nation’s highest civilian award, just so that some influential people could get it? By the time I publish this, all Sachin’s fans must be ready with rotten tomatoes, but I have to say it. Sachin Tendulkar getting Bharata Ratna just on the basis of appreciating his aptitude in cricket is not justified in anyway. 

UPA’s new eligibility for Bharata Ratna “any human being who has excelled in just any field of human endeavour” is absolutely flawed. If this is the measure, then Rajnikanth, N.R Narayana Murthy and Rajdeep Sardesai are also eligible to be awarded Bharata Ratna because they have excelled in some field of human endeavor. With this new eligibility, Bharata Ratna’s caliber has been brought down to a sms voting contest on a television reality show. With this, UPA has added one more feather to its hall of shame.

In India, it doesn’t come as a surprise that celebrities like Sachin and SRK get superfluous recognition than people like CNR Rao and Sam Pitroda because of the unwanted importance given to entertainment sector. It’s true that when Sachin plays with full command, the whole world is watching. But, Sachin, other than entertaining a billion Indians a million times, hasn’t done anything humanitarian. He’s more of a mass entertainer than a real hero. They call him the god of cricket. But how many times his leadership skills are questioned? It’s a fact that everyone has to agree that Sachin (alone) did not bring back the world cup to India. 

 I feel Sachin don’t deserve Bharata Ratna on the simple grounds that most of the past (I don’t say all) Bharata Ratna Awardees have dedicated their lives to the service of mankind, for the goodwill and betterment of India. Sachin’s sportsmanship and mass entertainment should not be compared to the humanitarian works of Nelson Mandela and Mother Theresa or the pioneers of science like Abdul Kalam and C.V Raman or the statesmanship of Vishveshvaraya. It makes no sense at all for someone to be awarded the highest civilian award of a nation for his individual sporting talent.

Personally, I don’t have anything against Sachin. In fact, I’ve always loved his cricketing skills. But Bharata Ratna is deserved to be awarded to people who have displayed remarkable level of integrity, punctuality, quality, reliability and purity in their field of endeavors. Bharata Ratna– “The Jewel of India” if awarded to individual talents ; no more remains the highest honorary award of India.

 
Let Sachin remain the “Jewel of Indian cricket” and Bharata Ratna, continue to be awarded to the real “Jewels of India”

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The mid summer contemplation

It’s been pretty long time since I wanted to write something. But the chores kept me busy, very busy. Back to back meetings, calls that lasts till late night, eat-work-sleep has been the agenda for quite some time now. And of late, like two lovers on a first date, I’m suffering from ROT(Running Out of Topic) syndrome. So there’s nothing exclusive about this post as well. Just my thought process activated.

Thanks for all the overwhelming birthday wishes. I’ve always felt really good to have sooo many good friends. Waking up to superb Champagne, a bunch of beautiful roses (I know that’s too girlish) and a yummy butterscotch cake @ 6.30am on a Sunday morning is really fantastic start to your birthday. Lunch @ bobby dhaba followed by bowling and homemade pani puri sums up to an awesome day. I wish I could mention the wacky and whimsical birthday gifts I got by Anil, Navya, JJ and Neha, but never mind. And Meera, thanks for the courier. You did manage to get it delivered right on April first..!!

Now that I’ve crossed 25, I consider myself of being out of quarter life crisis. Life is taking diversions on steep curves. On a serious note, with 8 of my closest friends getting into nuptials, (I can’t believe it), sometimes I think is it the peer pressure that seemingly building up slowly? Naah.. I’m too busy thinking about managing my finances more than fantasizing about Katy Perry and Kareena Kapoor. So I believe I’m on a safer side. I can sense that my revolutionary and radical thinking is slowly substituted by Patience and perseverance. Uncleness is slowly plunging in. But I’m resisting hard. I’ve also realized that using too many F words won’t make the reactionary, a rebellion. Responsibilities are forcing me to come out of the happy go lucky state. In all, the prime of life is really boring.

I’m hoping that IPL will ensure that April and May isn’t really that dreary. My new phone is helping me watch movies and series whilst the 2.5 hrs of travelling every day. My HD movie collection is a real savior @ home. After more than 100 bad experiences with the Bangalore auto driver, I chucked them for good and now Rag’s Victor is running a supreme 55 kmpl (I silently show my mid finger while overtaking autos). With All India Bakchod and Dr. Sheldon Cooper, I’ve got back my weirdo laughter (For all those who know how I laugh)! 

Alas, The prime of life may be boring, nevertheless, the secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.!!

The week that isn’t

It’s been a whole week since happiness has stormed out of my life. Or it feels so. When too many bad  and unwanted things happen, depression creeps in.  It’s very hard for me to be the real me. I can’t think like Tej when this happens. Things, when go awry back to back,  can drain you of all the spirit. It is a very bad week for me.

I woke up on a Monday morning to realize that its still 12^th day of the month and all my free internet bandwidth has been eaten up by the Service Pack upgrade and 157 other updates for my brand new Windows 7 OS on a brand new PC. Shit.!!! I felt cracks widening down the length of my body; because without internet, I’m suddenly all alone, having to watch some stupid movies and sitcoms for the rest of the month.

I was seized by the sudden fist of anger, frustration and shock when my mom called me and said that dad is bitten by a stray dog. I had an urge to kill the dog, but I came to reality pretty soon. And now, I have surplus work at office because our clients have come from Oxford and as always, we’re trying to show them that we have transformed from “hardly-working” environment to “work hard” system.

I came home totally exhausted and ran to bathroom to get fresh. I opened the tap and Baam..!!! I had a real bad electric shock. The electrician says that my building’s earthing has gone dead and that’s why it’s leaking. 7 grand for him to set it right. 7K for earthing?? I thought the former shock was milder . And from nowhere, my aunt calls me and tells that your dad had borrowed some 10K (god knows when) and now that you’re working in MNC and all, I expect it back now. I was thrashed like a housefly in the webs of my aunt’s words. Damn these relatives.  

Why am I treated so unreasonably by everyone? Why will I be the victim of circumstances always. Now that the talks about my marriage has slowly transformed itself into a topic of interest (definitely not to me) taking place of Mukta Mukta everyday, I’d end up discussing with Anil, about marriage, wife, life and so on.  I came to a conclusion that it’ll be very rude to myself if I don’t even try to have some good time before deciding to get married. It’ll be self cheating. 

My dad and mom had to go to  native and had asked me to book train tickets on Thursday. I checked the availability of tickets on irctc. 193 available. On the alternate tab of Firefox browser, Manoj tweeted “where boasting ends, dignity begins”. All of a sudden, blood rushed to  my brain I realized how true. I just changed the Thursday’s  “available” status to “wait-list” and convinced dad and mom to go on Friday night so that I can have all the weekend for me. I remembered the good time before marriage and smiled at myself.

Now, I just can’t wait for Friday night…!!! On Khamba’s suggestion, I’ve bought chyawanprash telling myself that a spoonful on Saturday morning will counterbalance the ill effects of fried shit and beer.

It’s gonna be legend… Wait for it.. Dary weekend at home..!!!

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The conscience of creativity

I thoroughly enjoyed the recent war of words between two biggest National dailies and the media Moguls, The Times of India and The Hindu. I never expected Hindu to come back in such a vigorous and influential way, rather nobody did. Take a bow Hindu! The powerful reply by Hindu reinforces the fact that in business “Dignity belongs to the conquered”.

There is an opinion in the minds of the public that a person who reads The Hindu has a very good vocabulary or if you want to take your vocabulary to next level, you should read The Hindu. On the other hand, The Hindu has always remained unbiased from the controversies and it has won readers by virtue of this quality. I had always thought that Hindu lacks creativity. But this episode proved me all wrong.

It all started with TOI coming up with an ad wherein a guy who is holding a newspaper (that is supposed to be Hindu) sleeps everywhere. The hidden meaning wass that people who read Hindu exhibit boredom.

I never expected Hindu to react so creatively. I just loved it the way they attacked TOI. Some of the awesome one liners by Hindu goes like this:

Read about Political Parties. Not about Page3 parties

Sense... Not sensational

For the current affairs... which are beyond bollywood affairs

Because government malfunctions matter more than wardrobe malfunctions.

Just watch the below videos and you’ll have the answers:

Conclusion: The media pot shots can be treat as well as an eye opener. The conscience of creativity never fails. I wrote about this because I have always believed in the power of knowledge. My special thanks to The Hindu for reinforcing and re iterating the fact that “Knowledge is everything”. Now it is up to you to decide. What do you want: Kareena’s bikini picture or some gyan. Whatever you read. But make sure you

Stay ahead of times!

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