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Solar eclipse - Ring of Fire

Posted on January 14, 2010 with No Comments

The millennium’s longest annular solar eclipse starts today  in India, around 11 a.m. and end around 3.15 p.m. The eclipse will first be seen in the south of Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu and then move to Rameshwaram and Dhanushkodi. It will also pass through Mizoram in the northeast. Delhi will see a partial solar eclipse. Read More »

Lalit Modi’s Mumbai bungalow gutted

Posted on December 20, 2009 with No Comments

A major fire gutted Indian Premier League commissioner Lalit Modi’s bungalow in Juhu on Saturday evening. Read More »

Wedding Limousine

Posted on July 9, 2009 with No Comments

“Marriages are made in heaven”, we always come to heard about this quotation, so why not make this really like a heaven in an earth, the best day of your life deserves, the best ride of your life, so what we need is only an awesome wedding car. Wedding is one of the most memorable days in our life. Spring time is definitely the busiest season for wedding, so its obvious price rises for limo services as the demand increases. Most stretch sedan limousines are simply not big enough to accommodate 14 peoples comfortably. Read More »

Slumdog trust hires social worker for Rubina

Posted on April 22, 2009 with No Comments

The ‘Jai Ho’ trust by the ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ filmmakers
has hired a social worker to ensure the welfare of Rubina Ali Qureshi
after her father allegedly tried to sell her for nearly $300,000. Read More »

Voting to elect 140 MPs on Thursday

Posted on April 22, 2009 with No Comments

People in 12 states and union territories will vote on Thursday to elect 140 MPs in the second phase of LS elections being contested by big names including Rahul Gandhi, Sharad Pawar, George Fernandes, Ramvilas Paswan and Sushma Swaraj with their campaigning focussed mostly on the theme who is fit to lead the country.

Election is already on Wednesday in one seat in Manipur Lok Sabha constituency, although polling there is counted as part of round-two of the five-phase elections.

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Father of Slumdog star Rubina Ali arrested

Posted on April 21, 2009 with No Comments

Rafiq Qureshi, the father of Slumdog Millionaire starlet Rubina Ali, has been arrested over claims that he tried to sell his daughter for 200,000 pounds.

A complaint from the 36-year-old man’s ex-wife initiated the arrest.

Indian cops spent several hours quizzing Qureshi and are now on a prowl to obtain video recordings of the meeting at which the deal was supposedly brokered, reports ‘The Sun’. Read More »

Mayawati is India’s anti-Obama: Newsweek

Posted on April 21, 2009 with No Comments

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati features on the cover of Newsweek’s latest edition, with the US weekly drawing parallels between
her and US President Barack Obama - in their rise to political heights though belonging to the bottom of the social ladder. Read More »

Sholay Movie rights sold

Posted on August 30, 2007 with No Comments

Pritish Nandy Communications Ltd has informed BSE that it has signed a deal with Sholay Media & Entertainment, rights holders of the Sholay franchise, to officially remake Sholay, the iconic classic of Bollywood produced by Sippy Films and released in 1975 which ran for 5 and a half years, breaking all box office records. Read More »

South Arabia King Chief guest at Republic Day

Posted on January 25, 2006 with No Comments

King Abdullah is the chief guest at the Republic Day parade. The King of Saudi Arabia , Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud was today given a formal ceremonial welcome in the forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhavan, the Presidential Palace. Read More »

Is it a Sin to be Hero in Indian Cricket.

Posted on January 9, 2006 with No Comments

1991, India tour Australia : A young man named Saurav Ganguly made a disastrous debut….. to follow it up, some articles here and there in the media regarding his failiure……. and the selectors on there part do the predictable…..drop him from the national side. At this time most would have thought that this young kid would ever show up in the indian line up.

1996, India tour England : A matured young man Saurav Ganguly selected for the Indian test team makes his sparkling test debut, brilliant batting display studded with breathtaking drives in the offside becomes an instant star in a nation mad about its cricket and cricketers…… to follow it up delivers consistent performances throughout the tour….. and the selectors on there part do the predictable again, gave him a chance in the ODI’s where he soon becomes the king of the offside…. one of the most dangerous opener… the maharaj of indian cricket…with Sachin Tendulkar he formed the best opening pair of there era. Saurav Ganguly is a suprstar.

2001, Australia tour India : An Ambitious Saurav Ganguly is now the indian captain and in his eyes has a dream to conqour the world, but infront is the challange of facing the world beaters the world champions Australia, the optimistic few gave india an outside chance, in the 3 test series, india are 1-0 down after the first test, most predict a walkover by the world champions yet again….. but a new indian team has just got its saviours, heroes are born out of people whose selection in the team was doubtful, indian team has got over the world champions, and the world, the leadership shows the team is a unit to contend with…. indian teams success was credited to saurav’s aggressive attitude with reflected on indian team….Saurav Ganguly was an instant star again as indian Captain… India Loves Saurav Ganguly.

From 2001 to 2004, Saurav Ganguly was a captain of the indian cricket team which seemed hungry for success, had some of the senior players - best in the business Sachin and Rahul, and the young brigade which Ganguly had very carefully built- Sehwag, Bhajji, Yuvraj, Kaif, Zaheer, Pathan. India performance shows in beating Pakistan in Pakistan, beating England in much hyped Natwest final, winning champions trophy, and reaching the World Cup 2003 finals.

2004-2005, A Desperate Saurav Ganguly was now more of a Captain than a performer, his performance had started dipped some of the so called experts found glitches in his batting technique (which evidently was there since he had started playing), this man who gave up his opening slot in ODI’s for the team, the man who persisted with some of the current indian players in there not so good times and was critisized for the same. The man was now under pressure to keep his place in the side, some of the so called experts wanted him to step down…… One of them was current Indian Coach Greg Chappel, who infact told him to step down and wrote a secret email to the BCCI to remove him as the National Captain. In the mean time Saurav Ganguly had now become the most successful indian captain and led india to its first overseas series win after 19 years. …… despite this slectors give more importance to the email sent by the coach …. and drop Saurav Ganguly from the Indian team…. despite some disappointment among some die hard Saurav fans (i m not one of those) the nation takes this decision as a step forward.

late 2005: A brave Saurav Ganguly, makes a comeback into the national team on the back of some good performances, his performance in the second test after the first was washed off was more than satisfactory considering the kind of resolve he showed…. but the selectors this time have done the unpredictable, excluded Saurav from the team which will face Lanka in Ahemadabad.

The entire nation is in shock over this paethetic decision, only because this time around Saurav did not deserve this the reasons for this decision are non cricketing… to me the reason is that man called Greg Chappell who gave his 5 reasons, each of which could be well debated and beaten, for ousting Saurav Ganguly at this point of time. A man who himself does not have basic manners and dignity to respect the public in a democratic country (the incidence where he made indecent gesture at a group of Saurav fans) and then does not have the guts to accept his wrong doing (him denying making that gesture) was given more importance than a man who gave the best 15 years of his life to this nation, and brought home never before glory and success to the nation as far as cricket was concerned.

Now my intent in writing this is not that i am a die hard fan of Saurav Ganguly, but as an Indian when i think and analyse this whole episode it raises this Question, that Is it a Sin to be a Hero in Indian Cricket ?

……I leave this Question to be answered by all u indians who felt proud evertime india won in the last 5 years of Saurav’s Captaincy.

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a hurt Indian Cricket Fan

SUMIT