The Cultural Nom Of a BLACK SOCIETY

THE DELHI GAN RAPE CASE HAS REALLY SHATTERED ME.  If this is the world that we live in the world should end soon .When I tweeted against the rapists yesterday I got a hell lotso replies saying that women should wear Burkhas ? If this does not rage you then what will…?Every time there's a rape, I feel guilty for being a part of a society that will have arm chair outrage and get on with life!The same society that teaches women to be careful not to get raped instead of teaching them not to RAPE! Rape is the matter of grave concern and it is definitely not an IPL to decide which city is best and which one is worst. Is my country gone to dogs already? 

The Protest against
the most wicked acts of all time.

 What concerns me and should concern everyone for that matter inherent sexism that comes along with ignoring the women when she denies her consent . By doing our society just doesn't believe women who doesn’t agree to something and not just in cases of rape. Society in itself has  got a problem in accepting the fact that NO MEANS NO!!!!! Apart from the fact what also can be deemed as rape is is when women says nothing. As peculiar as it sounds silence does not mean yes, not even close. Many women are blamed for the rape committed against her when she was too scared to speak or too intoxicated or drugged.

There was this movie based on a true story Saatchya Aaat Gharat. The movie had this man accused of rape and was asked was he guilty ? What he said came not only as a shock but raged us to an extent. He outsmarted the judge saying " If the jar was kept open , Why should I be guilty of checking  the contents in it !" This made me so furious that a button number 4 on remote control knows it(I pressed it so hard that it became dysfunctional since then and from then on if we had to tune in to channel that has 4 in it, say 34 we played 35 and reversed it back.) I just cant stand this injustice and this is the thing that provokes me. Sincerely speaking you raped her because her clothes provoked you , I should now break your face since its your stupidity that Provokes me.

I don’t only have Men to accuse of this disgusting act. Women , some might think, putting the revealing dress on , would make her look Gaga in male world. I have one kind suggestion to make to these girls," if Cinderella can get her prince charming without getting her dress off then so can you." Also something to men who say that dress had everything to do with my behavior , " Its just a Dress not a YES!".What I also feel the best gift a father can give her daughter on 13th birthday is a GUN!!

Getting back to the topic of what action do these rapist deserve? Mahatma Gandhi once said an eye to an eye ends up making everyone blind. Rapists deserve it high time.

Just say "NO!" to an institutionalized rape culture. Don’t just vote for women's rights CARE FOR IT!!!!  Our women Mother, Sister, Wife , Daughter, Friend want to be safe lets be responsible for them.

Let us all be responsible for
the women in our society.

The Police are doing there jobs very well. In a recent case there effort of catching the culprit so quickly  is really commendable , as they have in done in many cases prior to these as well. But can they think of a way to instill fear of repercussion in a potential offender?

Media Faisco

Stereotypical Expectation 

This might actually sound like a cliché when general expectation form media is to be neutral about something. By neutral I mean absolutely unsided about the happenings. The first and the foremost thing that applies to journalism is to report and telecast the news as and when it is happened. But with set of expectation you should have born 30 years earlier or in different country altogether. Today I am going to speak about both electronic and publishing media. What I will also do is try and offer solutions. People on social networking sites know me as the one who  puts the question articulately but has no answers. They had a point back then. But then happened " What Young India Wants?" , a book by Chetan Bhagat. While Chetan has inspired the masses to read , he also has inspired me to shape my writings  The book is a collection of essays where in the author takes a situation , deals with it in most fluent manner and tries to offer a solution , how-so-ever "Juvenile". I will try to do the same. Lets dig!

Publishing Media

Let me start this with Publishing Media. I find one problem very serious about it. Newspaper is not about the news anymore. It is about full page ads , Classified crap, Supplements and more supplements of Horse Shit. The shit consists of houses with lake view or mountain view, birth or death anniversary of tycoon  ,some cold cream ads, some engineering classes , some commercial schemes, and a long list of products we hardly know even exist. Are these things important to us in hunter gatherer sense of way? NO! a big NO. What are we then? Consumers! Consumers of Life-Style Obsession. What the publishing media thinks these days is Murder , Crime , Poverty  these things don’t concern me what concerns me is Celebrity Magazines , Television with 500 Channels , Some guy's name on my underwear (Rogaine , Viagra, Olestra, Allen Solley ). The moral of all of this remains the same."All this life we buy things we don’t need, with money we don’t have ,For the people we don’t like"

I stay in Pune and  I can say this thing blindfolded. No youth of this generation can afford a flat more than 70 lacks(Godsons excluded) ,even now it is a very very generous sum, and yet what I see on front page in Crystal Houses located on the suburbs of the city (5 out of 7 days). Gone are the days when front page meant something to us. Now a days any Dickhead can be there occupying that space. What's overhyped now is Page 3. The pary thrown by tycoons, politicos and other VIP events. Ask me then where is the news. Oh, it is there on pages 2,10, 16 respectively. I am not even undercounting. All the other pages are filled with Classified , Commercials and Expert (actual life Idiots, but I will get back to it) opinions. These are the problems an average indian is having against publishing media. (Lets Dig deeper)

E-Media (Electronic Media) 

E media activity on present day can be analyzed as 30% bolly masala( serials included),30% Cricket, 20% tele brands, 10% ads , 10% news. The work  definition is as follows,

Purana Jamana:- Report the News

Uske Baad wala Jamana:- Make the News

Aaj Kal ka Jamana:- Fake It and then Break It

Actually I never had a problem starting with something , but now am in dilemma as to where do I begin. Lets start. E media overhypes trivial things and no importance is given to real sensitive stuff. I have a quintessential example. A few weeks earlier a political tycoon was deceased. There was apublic funeral for him, but the way media handled was just disgusting. The whole day and I mean entire 24 hours the news channels went on showing the rally , the mammoth crowd  and the legendry politician. Sure, all of the state grieved on that day but media people should have known where to draw a line. The sensitive matter on other hand was dealt only with a sentence " Kasab, the terrorist, is hung and lives no more  ." there was some sort of info of him being infected with Dengue but no medical reports were released , neither did anybody get to see his dead body nor the hanging procedure, no ,nothing!!! Just like that.

Next thing they are doing is to offer astronomical solutions to existential problems. There is this guy called Rajat Shamra, one of the biggest aceholes (you know what I mean) of Indian Journalism. He claims himself to be a scion to have invented Breaking News and also Janta ki Adalat , and everybody knows Breaking news had done to media what pen drives have done to computer. whatever be the situation they are always linked to Chudailys , Pralaya, Kutta, Billi and Rajat Sharma is the one who breaks it to you every single day. For me he is the man who created news channel simply out of Punar Janam and Paapi Log, all the way from the programs about reincarnation to creating a nation of idiots.

What an Ass hole!!! ( I mean it )

And when time is good some actual news comes into picture. Oh yes we get the news form the strip that is running at the bottom of Tv set. If you are lucky enough you can also catch a sorry looking news  reader and if you are terribly lucky you get two readers who have nothing to do apart form complementing each other. What the hell goes on in those news rooms I wonder!

Cricket !! (Oh you will love this Para) . Every Indian is entitled to have a opinion about cricket but media are not entitled to telecast every single crap that comes there way. What they do is

Step 1:- Take a Issue( Currently dysfunctional Indian Team)

Step 2:- They find bunch of ugliest looking idiots who off-course has got the opinion

Step 3:- They will ask him some irrelevant question and never let him complete his sentence.

Step 4:- They will make them fight verbally with each other. Damn the topic, there egos are at stake now

Step 5:- One who is conducting the debate will announce the show is ending whilst the idiots , yes the ugliest idiots are still fighting in the backyard.

The good reason for calling them idiots is having limited cricket they opine about the God of cricket. These very people cant even hold a bat cant go for a walk single day in there lives say something slanderous about Sachin Ramesh Tendlkar. The stupid fuck that they are don’t even know sachin is holding his bat for as long as 7300 days in field.(Mind It!) Been running like a school boy for last two decades. He is the one who has child like enthusiasm about everything. We all know that retirement is part & parcel of the game but who the fuck are these people who impose the retirement on SRT. One such bastard is Monindar Amarnath!He comes up passing cluster fuck statements like "Sachin should have retired after 2003 world cup" , also  he said in 2007 Dhoni should not be a captain of Indian team. One month later India won the T-20 world cup under his captaincy after a couple of years we won Champions league 2010 that too under his captaincy and a year later won a 50 over Worldcup. I have nothing against this guy but he should stop considering himself a War hero. If so then it is high time he is reminded that this is a peace time.  Seriousy no respect form me … not like this!!

When I was a child TV serials were telecasted once a week. Be it Alif Laila, Shaktimaan, Suraag etc etc. However popular be the serial it was telecasted once a week. All we discussed was what would air for the upcoming week. Now a days serials are replaced by fancy word Soaps (specifically Soap Opera), which shows the show 6 out of seven days. The media don’t think that is enough so they run psychotic shows like Saans and the city to tell the audience whatz next to happen. There was the time when suspense had a vital role play in pursuing a serial but the Media has killed it now a days.

As I said I will offer solutions to these problems.

Publishing media

• Reduce the number of pages. Nobody reads the whole newspaper on week days.
• Glamorizing everything is no compromise for a less hi-fi story. People require truth not the manufactured version of it.
• Use the supplements  only when required. This is not a exam hall just to be remembered.
• Private ads should not feature more than a square of 8"X8"on page 4 or 6 whichever is convenient.
•   Always remember Freedom Fighters like Bal Gangadhar Tilak started Kesri Newspaper with sole intention of awakening the masses for freedom struggle against the Britshers.  They  might be less glamorous than you are but were equally effective. Some of his editorials are even at Library of Oxford and Cambridge. They were effective , you could be too. Give it a thought at least.

E-Media

• Telecast the news like the happenings in Parliament houses. The channels like Lok Sabha and Rajya  Sabha are telecasted only 3 hours per day. You could do it too. Telecast only the news part.
• No Astrology or Serial Crap is required. People are anyways bored of watching the marathon telecast of Balika Vadhu / Godh Bharai /CID / Crime Patrol that they can take it no more.
• Experts chosen should be publically respectably. If you don’t find one , its okay too. Conclusion is anyways ours to make with or without his opinion.
• Funeral/Auctions/Celebrity Events should not be telecasted for days and days . It is a high time that you are reminded of it.
• One mans tool is another man's weapon. Same holds true for Journalism . But Stop toying with it and feed us with some serious stuff.
• Always remember the legend Bhagat Singh. He got himself arrested so that People of India would listen to his voice through media. The media guys then were so articulate that they published What he had to say as he said it no more, no less.Notice the level of faith Bhagat had in media back then. The move was totally successful and thanks to Media people then. If same thing has to happen today ask yourself just this question "Will Bhagat Singh trust us? Could we live up to his expectation?".(since you so masala typically handle news that was meant to be serious)  Only then can we have this media problem handled.

Ricky Pointing

Legend retires today, and from this moment on there will only be nice things said about him.

Good Batsman ship overshadowed his
fielding brilliance 

Ricky pointing came out that very typical Australian mould of batsman. He was a quintessential Aussie batsman in style and approach. The good fielder as well but his batting brillance overshadowed it a little.

Superb near 2 decade international career from Ponting, who will go down as one of the all time greats. An excellent cricketer who made many achievements a reality - 3 consecutive ODI World Cup wins (2 as captain), back-to-back centuries in his 100th Test, 5-0 Ashes victory, first (and currently only) player to be involved in at least 100 Test match wins just to name a few. Successful captain, superb batsman and an exceptional fielder. Many valuable contributions over the years will most certainly be remembered.

After scoring 25th Test Century.

It is rightly said that the captain is as good as a team. Reading this sentence in reverse order is what pointing specializes in . As a opposition captain he was ruthless, Pointing was more Stylish batsman, and a brilliant fielder.  Aggressive is Pointing's  middle name. Agony to watch him piling on the runs against your country. Retirement of Pointing and Tendulkar nearing retirement marks a spot from where Cricket will never be the same.Even though my country won 2011 wc , ur innings in 2003 final against us still hurts. Every Indian shares a passionate hate for you since that very innings. Shane Warne had the nightmares looking Sachin bat in Sharjah, but every Indian has nightmares even now thinking of 2003 WC Final. Ricky was on rampage that day.

Only Captain for Aus to go down as the one to have
won successive World cups.

I hear a lot of people say that Pointing was blessed with crucial players which improved his captaincy. True from a captain perspective, Not true form a player perspectives. His individual batting or fielding ability stayed intact throughout his carrier. You see Cricket analysts are bound to compare players. So when it comes to compare somebody of his class in a cricket worldwide, I see no one. You may answer when asked about Great Batsman of all times(SRT). Same holds true when asked about Great Captain of all time(Imraan Khan). When both these questions are compounded my answer would be Ricky Pointing. He had dual responsibility but more importantly he had the stuff within him with which legends are made of.

Agonizing times after losing Ashes 09. 

Where , I think, Pointing was wrong is choosing this moment for retirement. After the retirement of the key players he had to become a molder from a manager. His captaincy and team strength were exposed after there retirement. If one looks at the moment or the manner in which great captains Border, Imraan khan , Lara took retirement , Pointing will go on wrong side. He, should have retired as a captain but instead had to retire in  a manner  like removing the burden of bearing with a old out of form batsman from the team(like Ganguly in this years IPL). Ashes loses in England as well as in Australia dented his carrier as a Captain. That was the only time he was in news for the wrong reasons. The  pressure of being the "only" star batsman of the team took toll on his batting and captaincy. At one point Pointing was to remembered as the cricketer who brought 2 World cups(2007,2009) for his country but  so deep were the wounds of losing ashes and his ambiguous tactics that he will be thought as the captain who lost 3 Ashes (2005,2009, 2010-11).

Pointing's Double Century Stand(221)
against India at Adelaide Oval 

Arrogant, Aggressive , skillfully with the dash of panache. Watching Oz cricket 5:00 am in the morning will never be the same again. There is a department in which Ricky scores more than players of his competition. That is handling pressure situations. Ricky is the master of handling situations like these. Even in last World Cup (2011) they lost to India, a lone fighter Pointing made his century. It was do or die for both the teams and every Indian was traumatized since an average Indian knows what is it like when Pointing scores a century. Also for one thing Ricky was always superior in temperament. There was healthy competition for all the records that mattered and we enjoyed the tussle between Sachin and Pointing. With age both face the same problem and yet Pointing is the first one to realize that. He realizes the simple fact that though he is enjoying the game, his good enough is not good enough for the team . So while Indian pride themselves having witnessed  Sachin's  century of 100 , Pointing involved in 100 Test wins for Australia is huge compared to a personal milestone of the former.

While other people are welcome to say that Pointing had worldclass talent in his team which made his team aggressive , but what they comfortably ignore is the fact that he was audacious enough to take over a team after the retirement of key players.

…..Your retirement is one more reason to quit watching Test Cricket. Great Puller and Great Driver….Enriched the game by his feats..........RICKY POINTING!!!!

Farewell Pointing

The Faithful Departed

Prayers to the families who have lost their members in the most wicked, cruel and dastardly act of all times. My condolences to the families of the Faithful Departed.

CRAP-FEST

Judged even by the yardstick of a ‘leave-your-brains-behind’ entertainer, Son of Sardaar falls considerably short, particularly because it wants to be too many things all at once. Dhir mines the premise for its comic potential, offering us some moments of inspired lunacy. But this is equally an action film, and the cartoonish set pieces fail to impress because they rely too heavily on tacky special effects. In one sequence, Dutt’s crony, pursuing Devgan on a motorbike, rams into onward traffic, and next thing you know, he’s riding the bike upside down mid-air. The same scene might have worked in a film directed by Rohit Shetty, who brings skill and a lightness of touch to comic-book action, but here such moments have little impact.

The performance of Sanjay dutt will draw the spirits out your bodies so much that watching a nonstop 72000 hour marathon telecast of Balika Vadhu or Godh Bharai would have brought more pleasure than to the one having had the misfortune of seeing Son of Sardar. That Sonakshi is one hotness impaired chick!!!!

I seriously think Indian Cinema has now reached whole new unseen level of sucking. That’s right , SUCKING!!!! I must congratulate the director of this movie for being the pioneers in achieving the threshold ram gopal verma never knew even existed.Sonakshi looks like 2nd adorable girl on planet…..first most beautiful women on planet …..first being Srimati Godavari Dhondiba Sarasambe , mukkam post  Chikhalthana age 75 years old can perform better than you did…….. Looking at her even Farah Khan arouses me.

Sugggestion to Sonakshi:-

IF YOU CONTINUE TO APPLY YOUR ACTING SKILLS NO MATTER HOW LIMITED THEY ARE IN THE FIRST PLACE IN LETHARGIC OVERRATED NONSENSE INFESTED PARASITIC MEGA ESSAYS OF STUPIDITY AND PSEUDO COOLNESS WITH LOTS OF WEIGHT THAT YOU CARRY  THEN YOUR CAREER IN A FEW YEARS IS GOING TO BE REDUCED TO SPOTS ON REALITY SHOWS LIKE BIGG BOSS.

I am not going to say a word about ajay devgan………….

THAT’S HOW ULTRA LAME AND SUPER MORONIC YOU AND THE OTHER TOTS IN THIS CLUSTERFU*K OF A FILM ACTUALLY ARE.

 This seriously was soul sucking crapfest. I want 30 minutes of my life back!!!!!!

The Expedition!

What do I do when I am not in not working? Well, then am at my apartment hanging out with my roomies or my friends but that happens seldom. What happens more often is that I am left stranded with my laptop. It is such a place where there is something in for everybody. If u are a geek , u get documentaries if u are movie junkie you get lotoso movies but for a whimsical guy that I am you also get TV serials. The good thing about it you don’t have to invest 3 hours and there is no such thing of disappointment  of investing 30 minutes a day. So this is what I do , perhaps I used to do!!!!!

The first encounter was friends , I still watch its season on random basis. When in college mass bunk was a tradition. Life was so much simple when there was no laptop. In those times,I had actual friends now I have the database. So when there was mass bunk , friends used to hangout & I used to hangout with FRIENDS!!!! All this while I was in search of perfect set of Ross, Phoebe and Chandler. There is only one first time and this was hell awesome. So that is how the interest was generated. If you don’t have anything to do and u don’t want to watch a movie, opt out for the serial. This paradigm helped me out till June of this year and then there was replacement. 

Serial watching spree was subdued by an Expedition! I had just finished watching Lost. Good serial. I will write of it in some other place. But necessity is the mother of inventions. And I invented such a thing that would amalgamate two longtime interests of mine History & Video Gaming. This was the deadly combination and the influence of one such cocktail hounds me as I write this blog. Video Games they always have my interest. Before June of this  year Age Of Empires 3 was the best I had but a new brick is  now added to my wall. Perhaps I have new wall entirely !!!!

The phenomenon is Assassin Creed!!!!

Tenants of the Creed.

Frankly put I am not fond of open world gaming. Neither using a sword instead of Magnum Sniper 615 is not my type. I hated Prince of Persia due the same thing. You play in the block with your sword. Why would anybody play that, was what I thought. But something was different in Assassin Creed. Its has got two story lines. One story line is in 2012 and that progresses as the story progresses and another storyline is in historic times. As mentioned in earlier blog I have an appetite for history. This game has the mix of it in the such great proportions that I got carried away in I-don't-have-anything-to-do kinda way. Whatever be the game in the series the plot remains the same. You are led upfront to the Assassin vs Templar war. The war is waged to posses a artifact. The artifact is called Apple of Eden. Once you have it you become the source of unlimited power. Speaking of time line. There is second timeline to this game. You experience it by going into machine called Animus!!!! The people at Abstergo Industries claim that human DNA not only has the memories of oneself but also of his ancestors. They also are modern day templars. So what they do is capture a guy called Desmond Miles , who has DNA of an assassin. They make him go in the Animus to experience the genetic memories of his ancestors. That’s all!!!!

Altair-Ibn-Lahad

Journey was begun. At first you are Altair-ibn-Lahad, the assassin during third crusade. You don’t feel so badly about the guy. But what really drives your gaming experience is the story. Story of an arrogant Assassin who had to lose it all to gain everything all over again. You have 9 memories to complete. The experience of newness , and open world gaming in 11th century made me tour deep into game. The game as such was simple. After having the basic skill of fighting , Running from rooftops to rooftops , Combating and throwing knives you have everything you need to excel in game. But for me that was not it. The question that drives my psyche is "Why we do what we do" apart  from  " how to do it?" and so I took the topic of assassination quiet seriously. A couple of my friends who have earlier played the game helped me set my perspective on this subject and then I transgressed at pace. Swords started to feel ecstatic , ridding a horse felt more dear than driving a car. Hidden Blade is now my most favorite weapon which even overshadows other weapons of mass destruction. As a player you travel to the cities Jerusalem, Acre, Damascus, Maysaf. I finished the game only to find me 

desperate to wait for next installment in the series.

Enter Ezio Auditore Da Firenze!!!!!

Ezio Auditore Da Firenze

After having experienced the best of Assassin Creed I bought the next game Assassin Creed II. The genetic memories take you into Renaissance. If story was the ace feature in the earlier version , Presentation was the crux in this. When the people like Leonardo da Vinci are ur friends who design the spectacular gadgets that is when you know you have got yourself a treat .This protagonist is actually the object of why am writing this blog. I am utterly obliged by the virtual reality by living the life and times of the guy-turned man-turned master Assassin. Now we are talking. The guys life falls in pieces when he loses his family to treachery. When the elder brother , father and younger  brother are hanged in public. I would be lying if I say that didn't hurt. All I could think for the next couple of days is now what? The expedition of 

revenge lands you in Tuscany, Forli and Vatican.

Ezio's family lost to treachery

You are so furious after this cut scene that you wanna bring all your Assassin skills back. This is what you acquire step by step but presentation in such a game is Period specific. Clothing, Architecture and most important part Economics. . The protagonist in earlier game was driven by duty, but the one in this game is driven by revenge. But as the story progresses and he starts getting the answers about the origin that is when you start enjoying. Because there comes a stage where u neither are the assassin nor a nobleman. Transition phase is the toughest in ACII. But when you are on the other side of the river that is when you get the taste of assassination. I don’t know why the antagonist was spared but still each and every part of the game was thrilling. Adventurous and thrilling ride with leonardo da vinci just paid off.Assassin Creed II is a prolonged series which has two further installments.   Brotherhood and Revelation.

Ezio in Colosseum Memory 8 Seqence 2 

Lucreiza Borgia

ROME, is the first of 16 places , I want to visit before I die. GOD answered my prayers in form of AC brotherhood.  In this installment you don’t have to travel from cities to cities the entire game is set in ROMA.Rome is beautifully designed and there were only some parts that were annoying for having to go all the way round the cliffy areas. Once you accept that things will often "pop" onto the horizon as you approach, it does look good and play well. The cut scenes are great apart from some weaknesses in the facial animation, which put it a step behind some other games where it looks better and has better lip synch. The characters remain engaging as well, although I missed some of the humour from AC2 – Leonardo in particular was such fun in 2 but here he seems too drab and a little dull compared to who he was originally. Ezio remains a great character to play while the modern characters are also stronger and more fun. Most of the landmarks are tailor made to its actual detailing architecture. Also the makers of the game have not messed with the history too much. The characters in the game Ceasre Borgia , his on-my-my sister Lucrezia are real and complicated relationship that they share is real fun. The game also has got the flashbacks of the love stories of Ezio and Cristina Sforza. Man this game is totally like a hindi movie in 80's. This has got everything(gana hai , bajana hai , emotion hai) the modern gamer is looking for and I fell like being lucky to have been blessed with such a beautiful game.

Ceasre Borgia

As before the game plays really smoothly and with a decent amount of variety. Naturally everything involves going somewhere, doing something and then going somewhere else, but the missions are well constructed and the challenged to do them "100% Synch" by achieving additional challenges makes them more interesting and essentially increases the difficulty for those that wish to try it. Around the main narrative though there is loads to be done. I really liked the addition of the Borgia towers to be cleared, the war machines and the many smaller missions for thieves, mercenaries etc that are scattered around. The collectables are still in place but this time the ability to unlock and buy maps makes this so much less of a chore. Developing the Assassins is a nice idea – not nearly as deep as it could have been but quite good and handy for calling them and earning money. Redeveloping Rome is quite easy to do – a bit pointless considering it surprisingly leads to no achievement but not having to go to one place to do it or get money (the Villa in AC2 was a "once an hour" chore). The little challenges from the various guilds are a nice idea as well and a good example of just how many little things there are to do if you want to do them; none of them will extend the game forever but I enjoyed doing all these things in between story missions – sometimes I would play for a couple of evenings without advancing the story at all. Getting out of the animus is also a nice addition even if it isn't particularly meaningful till the end.

What kept me engaging is that you feel like a batman doing the missions. Be it any version this has kept me engaging like a book and now AC Revelation is being in the backyard as I write this blog. Totally , looking forward to playing that one. The series was such a success that they have now launched AC 3 with totally new hero. I am afraid as the people wont feel so dearly about Connor as they feel about Ezio !! The Expedition was quiet glorifying till now which is about to get even better.

Long Live The Creed!!!!!

The Jinxed Prince Of Indian Cricket

English people are the best in inventing things , and the gracious people that they are , they let the world get better at it. One such invention is Cricket!!!! The longest running soap in Indian entertainment history. The inventory required for playing such a sport is just minimal. All you require is a wooden plank and a rubber and BAM!!!! You can engage in a game anywhere anytime. That is the beauty.  "What's Cricket in India ?"   is actually a stupid question in like of  " What's India without cricket?". The advent of limited over cricket lies in the fact that you don’t always have 5 days to get those prolonging results. So limited say 100 overs on a sunny day are enough to fix a clear winner and clear loser.


 Accident!!!! The word most loved by Indian Cricket. In India we don’t make things happen , accident happens and we are at right place at right time, sometimes. One such example is 1983 world cup , who would have imagined underdogs to defeat world champions who had the likes of Viv Richards and company. But we did it unexpectedly and it was the most cherish able moment in India. Twenty years after that we landed in a same situation. At Johannesburg India vs Australia. They say history repeats itself. But for it to do so some parameters also should be unchanged. Legend has it that a Captains knock is the only knock  which sets the game in your favor. In 1983 it was Kapil Dev.1987 Allan Border who even was the man of the series then. 1992 final belonged only to one man Imran Khan. Who could forget his speech after having the cup in his hand. He truly went on to define that modesty is the only virtue sportsman should have. 1996 , Arjuna Ranatunaga, do I need to say anything?, and finally Steve Waugh. You are not a cricket frantic if you dare forget semifinal between Australia and South Africa. One od the best matches in history of world cricket.  


A common thing in all those legends is even when they were blessed with world class players in there team (kapil had mohindar amarnath, border had taylor & waugh, Imran had javed,wasim and debuttante Inzamam, Ranatunga had Desilva & Jayasurya, Steve Waugh had the likes of the best players in world)  , they as themselves were world-class in every aspect of the game including leading form upfront.


The year is 2003. Australia is led by Ricky Pointing while India by Saurav Ganguly. Both the captains had best players on globe in there team. Ricky has Gilchrest, Hayden ,  Warne, McGrath while Saurav has Sachin, Rahul, Shewag, Srinath. Australia while batting first posted massive 359 on board.  Thanks to Ricky and Martyn both scored centuries. Seriously they were on song that day. To neutralize this achievement  someone should pull atleast half of what Ricky or Damien Martyn pulled off. The popular criticism that Saurav had to go through is that he would land India in finals of the tournament but could never win one. In his captaincy India was the best number two and WC 2003 Final was not an exception either. We ended up as runners up.


 When Star players succumb under pressure it requires someone special to turn the attack. To be blessed with key players is the call of fortune , but to perform as a player individually that totally is the call of one's own mettle and mental strength. Saurav's team was the team which could any team in the eye, but to make them pay was not always possible on biggies. India had to wait sometime more to call themselves world champions. Even in corporate life they say manager is first the team member, then a team leader and finally then a manager. 



Saurav was one of the best hitters of cricket ball & also one of the great Captain India has produced. The irony he could not be both at the same time. In his early days looking at big sixes in Sharjah was literally glorifying, he also has scored a century on his debut in 1996 , he was spectacular player. In his captaincy he even washed off the tag of India being overseas losers. He built a team that could sustain the pressure and we won a lot of overseas matches.
But when captaincy chipped in , India performing better under Capt. Ganguly overshadowed a non performing player Saurav Ganguly. To me he is like jinxed king who won every battle but lost the war. So the crux was answered. India required a performing captain. The one who is not a manager but a team player. And by now we all know what do both stand for.


Saurav was born fighter. Even when he was out of the team his didn't give up training. He made his way back in national squad retained it for a few days. We can't help but admire the strength of potent of his supernatural spirit. 


Hail DADA!!!!!!!

Maratha & the art of Solid Defence!!!!

I ,so much, wanted a platform to express the feelings I contained and with "test run" successful there is no looking back. To move things forward let me start with the topic that appeals to me the most. History!!!!!!

My blog is not the place where you get historical info of some sort , but u will notice my take on a particular subject. When in school I always topped History class owing to one basic reason , I had an appetite for it. But the education system in India has restricted the study circle only to Indian history. I am  not getting into the topic of education , at least in this blog. But what I always felt  is the quest  to study medieval history. India is the country which has not invaded any other country in past 10,000 years. Neither was it good in defending itself from Mughals, Dutch , Portuguese but best of them all British!!!!If we take in consideration span of rule Dutch were close to British , but Englishmen occupied  every nook and corner , so I say they were the best. Written History always has favored the winners and that’s why history of Englishmen is much more glorified than a freedom fighting Indian.

Mahatma Gandhi credited as the father of nation is remembered as the only fighter who tackled the britishers. Though the man was right , the same could not be said about his ways. His methods finally ended up in anarchy and blood bath of the native Indians , more than what aggressive congress thought of spilling the blood of Englishmen. So the object of writing this blog is to make you familiar with warriors , gladiators ,aristocrats , diplomats , cavalry leaders , bureaucrats and above all "Heroes " of the republic who fought with vigor to force the enemy troops beyond the Indian mainland.  

Shivaji Maharaj laid the foundation of "swaraj " a true aristocrat who planted the seed of "स्वराज्य ". When the great man was counting his last breath there was anarchy in kingdom. The kingdom built by blood and sand of people like you & me. This was the first time that anybody succeed in conquering the self land in Maratha empire. But as they say if there is first time for high , there always is first time for low. What Maratha empire experienced a golden time during shivaji maharaj rule was all set to experience the ruins. The cycle of misery kept on repeating itself. His son Sambhaji  possibly defended the empire to the best he could. But what he didn’t get is the support of other Marathi soldiers. Shivaji was brave but his son was even braver.  

To sum all that up after Shivaji died there was no sense of unity among Bhosle clan. The paradigm of dichotomy had set in the minds of two brother. Sambhaji always had the potential to run the kingdom and expand it twice to what it actually was. But the crux was the Marathi cabinet didn't favor  the prince as much as they would. This led to division among two brothers. While Sambhaji took the responsibility of the whole Kindom his step brother (Rajaram)was not man enough to understand the machinations of either battle or politics. This guy was born inverted , empathizing he would invert mughal rule but destiny had different plans. Sambhji the defender , fought mughals to the best he cold. But his death left entire Marathi Kingdom in conundrum. Maratha had lost the heart of there attack. Sambhaji was dead and his family , son Shahu and wife yesubai, were taken a hostage and sent to delhi.

When Sambhaji had fallen the mughals were guaranteed that victory is now eminent. But what stood in there was the daughter in law of Shivaji , Tararani saheb. It was due to her spectacular defence of more than 19 years that Mughals could not conquer the Marathi Kingdom. But when ennui steps in the attack is toothless and the defense is pointless. It was like mughals conquer something , Marathas reconquer it back. This cycle of hatred , misery kept on repeating itself. Because mughals led by Aurangzeb were not successful in getting handful of territories , neither did Maratha did anything different from defending itself. 

Thus was the historic defense of Marathas.