A few passing thoughts and a thank you note:
1.
Will somebody ask Sachin Tendulkar to retire? Will Sachin heed to such solid advice? Is the 100th International Century – a concept, of adding Test Centuries and ODI Centuries, is faulty; and at best, debatable – so dear to him?
2.
It is sad that one will not find Rahul Dravid bat once again especially in the most trying of circumstances. He earned the nickname of The Wall playing along side Sachin Tendulkar: this has been his greatest achievement. Rahul beamed an aura of silent aggression, which I have always associated with Sunil Gavaskar. I find this variety of aggression deeply rooted in our ethos and intensely chivalrous.
3.
2013 in all likelihood will witness the next General Elections and truncation of the regime of UPA II. Mr. Prakash Karat, Mr. A.B.Bardhan and Mr. Gurudas Dasgupta – the Revisionist Parliamentary Left – are likely to hover around Mr. Mulyam Singh Yadav and Mr. Akhilesh Yadav for a long time now to revive hopes of a Third Front. Does Ms. Mamata Banerjee stand for agriculture or industry? Does she know that to stand for something she is required to carry a cogent and comprehensive economic and political vision that will require conviction and sincerity as compared to pulling off publicity stunts like organizing competitive padayatras?
4.
Is there an intrinsic nature of man, which we are yet to discover? If yes – as argued by a large number of anthropologists and natural scientists – what is it? Is it benevolence; and love for justice, collaboration and community life? Or, is it greed; warmongering; and accumulation of power, wealth and unfettered pursuance of material goals? Man arguably has both contradictory tendencies. The question is: does he have a conscience [not a supernatural one but a part of the brain that is a critique of his combined actions] or is it a liberal construct of human imagination. Where will the conscience of man lead man to? Can it lead him to a more equitable and sustainable world before he has destroyed it beyond repair with the help of his arms and ammunitions that have been mass manufactured and stockpiled on one pretext or the other?
5.
Holi night – was lost in a highway maze – absentmindedly took a route among a carnival of billowy unidirectional highways with no dividers in between to facilitate a U turn – stranded and headed for Delhi on a route that I thought would be homeward bound – having gone 21 km from home and going without any divider in sight, anxiety hit like a thundering typhoon – when this albino guy in lungi and kurta, we found, evening walking on the swarthy berm hitting us like a helpful cannon gliding us in no time to a divider, Dankuni approaching – getting dropped, almost vanishing, after showing us the return way near the toll tax counters near about Bally – he said his name was Haridas Bhattacharya and he was sort of retired – at home whoever heard the story told us we had sighted a good ghost on the highway maze – a Samaritan in today’s time, I believe – thank you Haridasbabu!
1.
Will somebody ask Sachin Tendulkar to retire? Will Sachin heed to such solid advice? Is the 100th International Century – a concept, of adding Test Centuries and ODI Centuries, is faulty; and at best, debatable – so dear to him?
2.
It is sad that one will not find Rahul Dravid bat once again especially in the most trying of circumstances. He earned the nickname of The Wall playing along side Sachin Tendulkar: this has been his greatest achievement. Rahul beamed an aura of silent aggression, which I have always associated with Sunil Gavaskar. I find this variety of aggression deeply rooted in our ethos and intensely chivalrous.
3.
2013 in all likelihood will witness the next General Elections and truncation of the regime of UPA II. Mr. Prakash Karat, Mr. A.B.Bardhan and Mr. Gurudas Dasgupta – the Revisionist Parliamentary Left – are likely to hover around Mr. Mulyam Singh Yadav and Mr. Akhilesh Yadav for a long time now to revive hopes of a Third Front. Does Ms. Mamata Banerjee stand for agriculture or industry? Does she know that to stand for something she is required to carry a cogent and comprehensive economic and political vision that will require conviction and sincerity as compared to pulling off publicity stunts like organizing competitive padayatras?
4.
Is there an intrinsic nature of man, which we are yet to discover? If yes – as argued by a large number of anthropologists and natural scientists – what is it? Is it benevolence; and love for justice, collaboration and community life? Or, is it greed; warmongering; and accumulation of power, wealth and unfettered pursuance of material goals? Man arguably has both contradictory tendencies. The question is: does he have a conscience [not a supernatural one but a part of the brain that is a critique of his combined actions] or is it a liberal construct of human imagination. Where will the conscience of man lead man to? Can it lead him to a more equitable and sustainable world before he has destroyed it beyond repair with the help of his arms and ammunitions that have been mass manufactured and stockpiled on one pretext or the other?
5.
Holi night – was lost in a highway maze – absentmindedly took a route among a carnival of billowy unidirectional highways with no dividers in between to facilitate a U turn – stranded and headed for Delhi on a route that I thought would be homeward bound – having gone 21 km from home and going without any divider in sight, anxiety hit like a thundering typhoon – when this albino guy in lungi and kurta, we found, evening walking on the swarthy berm hitting us like a helpful cannon gliding us in no time to a divider, Dankuni approaching – getting dropped, almost vanishing, after showing us the return way near the toll tax counters near about Bally – he said his name was Haridas Bhattacharya and he was sort of retired – at home whoever heard the story told us we had sighted a good ghost on the highway maze – a Samaritan in today’s time, I believe – thank you Haridasbabu!
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