Cricket coach and National Spirit

News of BCCI deciding Gary Kiersten as Indian coach is taking rounds on media circles. This white skin fixation of Indian cricket is pathetic. After reading his musings in 1996 tour diary.. i really feel terrible... its quite sad that we have to bring people with such derogatory outlook about our country and the sport and get coached our national team.. Please don't feel once again taking up the oft beaten track of "the need for an Indian Coach". What's wrong in handing over the mantle to the kinds of Sandeep Patil, Robin Singh, Roger Binny, Anshuman Gakewad etc.. who have well proven their credentials in previous exposures... Morevoer they are good at fitness front and man management skills too... the only need is for providing them a freedom to run their regime. Hope wisdom prevails.. Cricket, may be another sport, but it's influence among Indian society is quite phenomenal.

Gujrat - the pain the linger

While the expose of Tehelka sank without a trace, as Congress and Left shown more hurry than the sangh parivar to shove it under carpet.. the deep scars that it had created in many a lives bound to linger. One of the bloodiest pogroms in the history of independent India, brought not even a single culprit to the altar of justice. It's a shame (not withstanding the crocodile tears of hypocrites and opportunities in moderate and secular garbs) to Hindu culture, perhaps the only relgious entity that would tolerate pluralistic society, to let free such demons and barbarians in two legs...

while dust refuse to settle after the so called "matrydom" of Saddam Hussein... leaving aftershocks in the subcontinent who in no way have hardly any hand in the act, other than being passive towards the judgement defies logic... some thoughts linger as sidelights of the drama enacted... The main accusal of the so called ideology driven secularists the filled the news paper columns and news rooms was about india's thankless attitude towards the dictator who was supportive to indian's cause at international arena.. so was mr.najibbullah..saddam atleast got a chance - even it can be poohpoohed as farce, for trial... what happened to najibullah? isn't the his mutilated body hanging on a roadside pole in kabul was more heartbreaking than the "royal retreat" of saddam.. Wasn't he a better friend of india than anyone else?

While accusing US on Saddam's fate, one would also think...Didn't they got a better chance to eliminate saddam, when the petrified dictator was taken out from the bunker with folded hands? and why should US wait to make him stronger or even more dignified..

Though one feel the dictator got the end that he deserves... the saddened aspect is that why these kind of verdicts only happen to Asians or Africans.. not to richard nixons, tony blairs and bushes (Jr and Sr)...