The initial part of this blog is in reference to the horrendous outpour of affection shown by our former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda towards the Karnataka CM B S Yeddyurappa (BSY) calling him a Bloody Bastard and a Kannada version of an SOB (Son of a Bitch, for all those unfamiliar). While it is too graphic and frankly, too funny, I believe the actual term used was Bosudi Maga. While this news has been more than a week old, I couldn't resist writing about this. Karnataka politics is already in deep shit thanks to the Reddy faction ganging up against BSY and his cohorts, this chapter darkens the mood further. My initial memories of H D Deve Gowda from the early 90s is that of a silent politician who rarely spoke (and who probably rarely acted upon). I distinctly remember a Doordarshan footage of the PM and his entire family boarding the equivalent of the Air Force One for a vacation in Africa. I guess public opinion was pretty high of him then allowing him such kind of liberties but the recent blasting has surely dented or destroyed whatever little image the general public had of him.
Talking about abuses, Ajit Agarkar and some of the Ranji winning Mumbai squad did not earn themselves any friends after the final against Karnataka in Mysore. Rarely has a Ranji match been interesting, but this one was for all the wrong reasons. An India international behaving like a school-kid (even worse) was downright pathetic.
Even more pathetic than the Cricket hoopla was the state of our national game, Hockey. Hockey India, unlike Cricket, and like ALL the other sports in India is run by policitos, bureaucrats and babus who have no business allowing our Hockey-heroes to suffer this embarrasment. Not getting the promised monetary reward for excellent performances in 2009 was nothing but a tragedy waiting to happen and a timebomb waiting to explode in the faces of the sport's so-called administrators. I am glad that the team stood together and got rewarded (although just a recorded assurance from Suresh Kalmadi is all they have for now as an incentive to participate in the upcoming Hockey World Cup in March).
Talking about tragedies, what happened in the western hemisphere's poorest country, Haiti is heart-wrenching. A 7.0 magnitude earthquake eating up majority of the capital (Port-Au-Prince) and close to 200000 lives lost/accounted for.
And here I am cribbing about nothing to do on Saturdays and Sundays. Someone whack me clean.
Talking about abuses, Ajit Agarkar and some of the Ranji winning Mumbai squad did not earn themselves any friends after the final against Karnataka in Mysore. Rarely has a Ranji match been interesting, but this one was for all the wrong reasons. An India international behaving like a school-kid (even worse) was downright pathetic.
Even more pathetic than the Cricket hoopla was the state of our national game, Hockey. Hockey India, unlike Cricket, and like ALL the other sports in India is run by policitos, bureaucrats and babus who have no business allowing our Hockey-heroes to suffer this embarrasment. Not getting the promised monetary reward for excellent performances in 2009 was nothing but a tragedy waiting to happen and a timebomb waiting to explode in the faces of the sport's so-called administrators. I am glad that the team stood together and got rewarded (although just a recorded assurance from Suresh Kalmadi is all they have for now as an incentive to participate in the upcoming Hockey World Cup in March).
Talking about tragedies, what happened in the western hemisphere's poorest country, Haiti is heart-wrenching. A 7.0 magnitude earthquake eating up majority of the capital (Port-Au-Prince) and close to 200000 lives lost/accounted for.
And here I am cribbing about nothing to do on Saturdays and Sundays. Someone whack me clean.
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