BVHK's world-view

An era has come to an end

Finally, Steve Waugh has declared that he would retire at the end of the Sydney Test against India. This great man started his career against India and should ideally end it with a win against India. His career has had too many romantic instances to not have another romantic end. I am pained that he did not wait to conquer the final frontier - a series win against India in India. I feel this is a defeat for the most indefatigable character I have ever seen- the very fact that he is not waiting for the Indian series is a sign of a rare admission of defeat that I never associated with him. The century against England was so Rocky like- triumph of the human spirit against all odds.

Ahmedabad

I was back in Ahmedabad after three months,this time for the Confluence 2003. It was great fun as I caught up with Manish Singhal, who had become a dear friend during my stay at IIM A during my summers.Also made some new friends this time with whom shared lot of ideas.

The Final

Notwithstanding Ponting's belief about the crowd and how they can handle it, I believe the first 15 overs for India and the first 15 and the last 10 overs in the Aussie batting innings are absolutely important.

Hindustan Times

An editorial and a news article in today's Hindustan Times made interesting reading. The editorial was about Boris Becker's new autobiography in which he has claimed that 'men are not made for monogamy'. Then there was some interesting information about how even swans and foxes, once held up as examples for fidelity, have now been found to stray. The sole exception seems to be the unfortunately named screw-worm fly, which stays with its partner till death-do-them-part.

This is called playing BLIND

Now I am attempting something which every Hindi movie hero ( I might have slipped on ocassions, but one should take note of the fact that I refrain from using the term Bollywood - we are a bigger Industry with more diverse movies and we are demeaning ourselves by calling ourselves a derivation of the term Hollywood) who has ever laid hands on a pack of cards does, be it Gambler (Dev Anand), The Great Gambler (AB) or any of the umpteen Mithun movies - I am going to p

A good day

Yesterday, I decided to spend some time by myself. Spent two hours in Planet M and bought two Audio CDs - Tehzeeb, Mannay Dey's rendition of the Madhushala. Then, watched two movies back to back. Pinjar is a very intense movie with a very powerful story and brilliant performances by everyone. Amrita Preetam's story has the punch and overall the movie is definitely one which a aficionado would be only foolish to miss.

Dravid

Irrespective of the result of the match, full marks to Dravid for his imaginative captaincy, yet again. Opening with Sehwag and then having Agarkar bowl later in the match is a masterstroke. Step down Ganguly. You have done your job. The team got the fighting spirit under you but now its time for a thinking Captain to take over.

Knew this was coming

With the kind of sex starved general populace out here (both men and women, mind you!!), I knew this was coming. The guys had to run out of docile girls some time and had to look in the other direction.

Cricket

In spite of his having shown no evidence of it in public, I have somehow associated a very rich sense of humour with Steve Waugh. Its on display in this article where he has described,dissected and analysed The God. Of course, there is still a lot of self praise inserted intelligently, 'he will be keyed up when he plays the best'. Talking of self praise, I have always thought that I can more or less predict The God's game and can tell when he is setting himself for a big one.