Roti, Kapda aur Cricket !!!!
Written on Friday, November 24, 2006 by Unknown
The drubbing at Durban didn't come as a surprise to me at all especially when it was the same pitch where we were skittled out twice for a total sum of less than a hundred in 1996. But what astonished me was the debate and subsequents hours wasted in the parliament over it. Come on guys this country has enough graver problems which need your precious time.... literally. (Believe it or not, the cost of running a Parliament is approximately Rs 58 lakh a day, while that of the whole session easily runs into crores.)
No where in the world do you never expect the house of commons fighting over issues like their team losing a soccer match but then where else do you expect people saying with blatant prideness "It happens only in India". I would not be amazed if i read this (members fighting in parliament over cricket) as some fun trivia in an international publication.
And when reaching a conclusion was concerned cricket was no different from other issues (not considering here the reservations, amendment of constitution to provide more power to legislative etc.) Neither had you Peter Roebucks and Gawaskars dissecting the peformance of the team [no
(un)fortunately they are not yet Rajya Sabha or Lok Sabha members]. So the quality of discussion wasn't any better than the ones heard at the "chai ka galla" next door. From chappel bashing to "bring Ganguly back" song, as if reason for current failure lies solely on them.
Just before i sign off (hope this is correct way to use it and if it is not blame it to over exposure of host oriented tv shows ;) ), even if we owe this to very sporty MPs we have then why not a discussion on Indian Hockey debacle (Trivia of the day: Hockey is India's national game. Played with 11 sticks and a ball. The stick looks exactly like those which bad guys carry in hindi movies ;) Save it somewhere, you might well be at loss of words while you explain hockey to your childrens.)
No where in the world do you never expect the house of commons fighting over issues like their team losing a soccer match but then where else do you expect people saying with blatant prideness "It happens only in India". I would not be amazed if i read this (members fighting in parliament over cricket) as some fun trivia in an international publication.
And when reaching a conclusion was concerned cricket was no different from other issues (not considering here the reservations, amendment of constitution to provide more power to legislative etc.) Neither had you Peter Roebucks and Gawaskars dissecting the peformance of the team [no
(un)fortunately they are not yet Rajya Sabha or Lok Sabha members]. So the quality of discussion wasn't any better than the ones heard at the "chai ka galla" next door. From chappel bashing to "bring Ganguly back" song, as if reason for current failure lies solely on them.
Just before i sign off (hope this is correct way to use it and if it is not blame it to over exposure of host oriented tv shows ;) ), even if we owe this to very sporty MPs we have then why not a discussion on Indian Hockey debacle (Trivia of the day: Hockey is India's national game. Played with 11 sticks and a ball. The stick looks exactly like those which bad guys carry in hindi movies ;) Save it somewhere, you might well be at loss of words while you explain hockey to your childrens.)
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