IPL is back

Yeh! its back again; time of excitement, enthusiasm and glamour is back again.

As you all know, there is a strong relationship in Indians and cricket. We Indians consider cricket as religion rather than just a sport and most of us treat the players of Indian team as our God. And heaven is here.When it comes to the game, Cricket is leading the way in India, and the national game Hockey miles behind.The passion among the people for the game is evident in the matches that are hosted in India.

The whirlpool of twenty20 has been already started. I guess you already know! what I am talking about? Yes! I am talking about the IPL (Indian Premier League), the heaven for cricketers. The third season of IPL already kicked off  in India on 12 March 2010 , it is going to feature 60 games and will last over a period of 45 days. This time five new venues have been added in IPL (Cuttack, Vizag, Ahemdabad, Dharmshala and Nagpur).

The IPL, is a Twenty20 cricket competition initiated by the BCCI  Vice President Lalit Modi, sponsored by India's leading real estate developer DLF Ltd and many other companies endorsing it. It includes 8 teams or "franchise" consisting of players from different countries. This time the players were auctioned in month of January in which franchises had shown interest in them. A total number of 66 overseas players were included in the final auction list.

There are two way to earn money in this world. One is shortkut and another one is chota shortkut i.e. IPL. It makes money for those who already have huge amount of money in their pocket. And shortkut for the youngsters to show their talents; it works as a platform for the youngsters.

In my opinion, this game only favour the batsmen, they step in the field with just with one motive to hit the ball so hard that it cross the fence; So, there is no role of bowlers in this except that they have to bowl for twenty overs and just watching the ball crossing  the fences. And yes this is what fans or crowd wants, they pay money to see this only, they really enjoy this. And for making it more glamorous cheerleaders are there, they accomplish the remaining moto of the IPL. The TRP of TV channels which provide live telecast of IPL matches spikes to the sky in hrs between 3 PM to 12 midnight.  
 

 Several bollywood stars and business men have shown a tremendous interest in owing the IPL teams like SRK, Vijay Mallya, Mukesh Ambani and many more.

Shahrukh Khan's owned team Kolkata Knight Rider despite not winning any season, manages to earn maximum money (mostly through advertisement) in both earlier seasons, even though, in last season it finished last in the tally. While the Deccan Charger which was earlier expected to top the tally, finished last in first season but played final with its colleague Banglore Royal Challenger (second last in first season) in second season and managed to the scrape the season.Whereas the Rajasthan Royal which was expected to be the worst in first season, got triumph in that season and top the tally. Moving to Delhi Daredevil and Chennai Super Kings, were the teams which graduated to the semi's in both the seasons but becaz of there hardluck never got success. And last but the least Mumbai Indians not even managed to graduated to the semi's, hoping this time it will do something.

So enjoy this.......

First Holi - In College

Monday 1st March 2010. The day was quite a nice experience as it was HOLI.

Usually, we celebrate Holi with colors and sweets; we start waiting for it from at least two months ago and start preparing for it a day or two before the occasion. Bizarre! this time I didn't even think of it. Desolation engulfed me as this time I was in my college first time away from sweet home.

The day started as usual. I woke up when sun was shinning head on..... Strangely, for the first time I went for breakfast without have a bath in college. And started watching 'Roadies' (reality of MTv) after returning back to the hostel. Actually, I wasn't deliberate to celebrate Holi and didn't even bother who were celebrating it. Eventually, my flank mates came and took me with them to BaBa.

Oh! Yes, 'BaBa', actually it is a meeting point of  smokers half a kilometer from  my college. Genuinely, it is heaven for smokers.We went there for have  BHANG. It cost around Rs.25/- per glass. Initially we ordered a glass for each one of us, we have that but none of us feels like we have drank a glass of bhang, so we thought for second but we didn't have enough money for us. Actually, we left with only 100 bucks and there were five guys to drink, I didn't remember how but we managed to arrange another 25 bucks and ordered for second one, we drank that too but still have no such kind of feeling that we drank two glasses of bhang, so we decided not to waste more money on this and move from there to college. This was my second time but, quite a nice experience better than first one. In between we met many of our college guys who were going to baba, but Of course! For bhang. After an hour or two, I felt some kind of drastic change in my health. I feels like my life get clogged and every frame of my life starts drifting blindingly slow pace. I didn't knew what had happened to me, I feels like my throat geting desiccated, I told 'Spiky' my roomie to get some water for me, I drank water and felt like I get my breath back but again the same thing happened. Actually, I was to not able to breathe properly. Then, somehow with the help of 'Lal' I reached to the washbasin and washed my face and it feels like heaven. It was around 11:45 in the morning and I had a strong dozy feeling but I knew, if I went on bed don't know when I m going to wake up so I thought of having lunch first and rest thing later. And I did so, I went for lunch, but while having lunch I felt like everything whatever it was running extremely slowly. As I started chewing chapati, I ate one chapati then second then third and so on till the number rises to nine. Actually, I was unable to control my jaw, it keep go on, it was out my command. So on that day, I managed to made a record of having nine chapaties at once.....hmmm.....nice one. Somehow, I finished my lunch and returned back to hostel, as I felt exhauted and dozy I went to bed around 12:30 in noon. And woken up by someone from comatose I didn't remember who he was, at around 7:30 in evening but I didn't fully recover, still I was in process of recovery, my whole body was aching. Somehow, I managed to get up, went to washbasin and wash my face. That was the moment I feel oh! Yes, I am safe....and went for having dinner, have it and return to my room. As I was not fully recover, I thought of a kip and once again went to bed.


So this was my story of First Holi In College.
This is all I m able to recongnize.

Examining Reservation

A frequently heard word reservation.
What reservation exactly is??
Reservation is a provision of 'quota' system in which a fixed number of seats get reserved in schools and colleges; these quotas are not only only limited to the education level, but it also paly a vital role when we are hunting for the jobs where a specific no. of posts get reserved for the people comes under the reservation criteria in Government and in Private sector as well.

The word reservation was first introduced by Dr. Ambedkar in the Constitution of India for the people of 'Schedule Caste' and 'Schedule Tribe' just after Independence and they provide them reservation of 10 percent and we appreciate him for this step as he just wants to equalise the society. But the thing astonishing me is now the reservation were introduced for other sections as well. The supreme court ruling that reservations cannot exceed 50% has put a cap on reservations However, but certain Indian states like Rajasthan have proposed a 68 % reservation which includes a 14% reservation for forward castes why? Now days reservations are given on Caste Basis/State of Domicile/Religion Basis and depends on many other criterias. Would you think there is any need of reservation now?

IN SUPPORT
1. Actually, Reservations are a political necessity in India because vast influential sections of voting population see reservations as beneficial to themselves.
2. Reservations is a means to increase representation of low caste groups and thereby improve diversity on campus.

IN OPPOSE
1. Allocating quotas is a form of discrimination which is contrary to the right to equality.
2. Poor people from "forward castes" do not have any social or economical advantage over rich people from backward caste.

SOLUTION
1. Reservation decisions has to be taken based on based on real facts and not influenced by personal beliefs or feelings basis.
2. Emphasis should be given to proper primary and secondary education so that groups under-represented in higher education institutes and workplaces become natural competitors.
3. Government should announce long term plan to phase out reservations.
4. Reservations should be based on economic status instead of caste-based-reservations.

With this bit of thought, a day would come when there is no one arguing for reservation.