The dude!

How many nicknames do you have? Four, Five or maybe six!! This guy has lost count of them all! And to the guys who thought Bappi was cool, have a look at him..new clothes daily, customized jewels. The only thing he doesn’t is eat at KFC!! This dude only eats curd rice, much like me..:P.

The folklore has it that, some thousand years ago, this dude fought with his loved one and settled in this mountain called Sheshadri! But being the dude he is, could not live long without his chick! Neither could his chick..:P..Neither could his friends Brahma and Vishnu. So they hatched some plans and brought them together. Now this is what we call friendship!! So all said and done, some thousand years ago, these dude needed some crores of rupees to get ready to be married again.!! Now this is seriously romantic!! Marry once in heaven and get married again in earth….And so he borrowed the money from another dude of his time..Kubera! And supposedly, our dude is stil repaying the money back and we are “helping” him repay it..:P

Although there might be a thousand nay sayers to tell this dude and his legend his overhype, my frank opinion is a visit to his home once in lifetime is surely that everybody must think about. Yes, you will have to walk through vomit kissed floors, rub shoulders with people drenched in sweat, stay awake at odd hours and literally cross seven mountains!! All for one fleeting glance at him.

All said and done, this dude just has an alluring charisma to him which will keep pulling fans till time immemorial..Govinda Govinda!

Dear Mr. Modi and your facist brethren,

I write this letter, first, as a concerned Hindu and then an Indian. But, I am pained to say that you are the biggest enemy to my faith. Sometimes, I wonder if you are a devious design of some evil mind determined to wipe out this sacred religion from my motherland.

Probably, your knowledge of Hindu mythology is poor and so is your knowledge of world history. Revenge, as the Gita says, is the purest human emotion. The most naked of human emotions are triggered when the heart is wounded and the fire of revenge is only extinguished only after an evil of similar or greater measure is done on the forces which cradled the fire of revenge.

I do not fear the Maulanas in the far hills of Kashmir or the bearded gun trotting Muslim in the barren plains of Afghan. I fear the Zameer Khan and Shabnam Shaikh who stays next door to me. I do not fear them for the proximity but am helpless if I have to answer them. The Maulana preaches the radical version of his faith so that even the neighboring village’s Amjad Khan attends his sermon. A la Ramdev attempt at attention seeking! The gunmen in Afghan picked up the gun because he really didn’t know any better means to raise his family.

But my neighbor has seen his sister being raped by the saffron robbed warriors, His sole bread earning son being slaughtered to death. In his eyes, the tears of grief are still alive. The lump in his throat swells with every mention of his son and so does his anger with every mention of your name. Now, Jihad attracts him. The same clergy whom he found ridiculous from the last 40 years has suddenly given meaning to his life in the last 40 years. When 4 years ago, he was told there was a need for an Islamic land, he joked “Are sirf Muslim log honge, to Diwali ko phatake kaise phodenge!”. In every Hindu, he sees a Modi now.

There are so many Zameers and Shabnams in every corner of India who once were Indian muslims. As they say, adversity brings even enemies together. Your deeds brought the Arab Muslim closer to the Indian Musilm. Sir,please stop the Hinduisation of this country any further. I want my Zameer back.

A Hindu.

So near, yet so far….

On the 21^st May,2011, there was an unmistakable passion every time the crowd went wild chanting “Aaar Cee Bee!”. Although RCB ended up being second best in the tournament, RCB had won back its fans heart. The fanatic following that characterizes an RCB team was there for all to see. To me, RCB had already won it.

They say, “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.”. And RCB only epitomized these words. IPL IV started shakily for RCB even before the first ball was bowled. The opposition franchisees bid heavily for Karnataka’s local stars Uthappa,Dravid and Vinay Kumar and eventually RCB had to lose out on Bangalore’s favourite sons. Although it cash a shadow of self-doubt on every RCBian, the emergence of the tall and mean Sreenath Aravind under the wings of Zaheer Khan soon infused the local colour into RCB camp.Indeed, it would be no exaggeration to say Sreenath Aravind was one of the finds of the tournament.

The IPL think tank proved that it was strategically the best in the tournament. Virat Kohli, widely tipped as future Indian captain was the only retained player in the side and at the end of the tournament the gentlemen in RCB would have patted themselves. The youngster not only provided stability to the middle order but also showed glimpses of Jonty Rhodes with his exceptional fielding. And to cap it, he led the side admirably in the absence of RCB’s regular captain, Daniel Vettori who Is one of the finest captains in the cricketing world.

After a lot of talk off the field, finally when the action back it was disaster at the start for RCB. Back to back defeats, must win situation to stay afloat in the competition, questions raised about the team’s composition, fitness of players, the board’s commitment and a serious injury to one of RCB’s strike bowler Dirk Nannes. And so often than not, this was the moment to spur RCB. And in walked a dark burly man from Jamaica, Christopher Gayle. Was he ego hurt for not being picked during the auctions? What did he want to prove the world? What did Dr. Vijay Mallya offer him? Nobody knows! But seldom has the world witnessed imposing himself on a tournament of this stature as Gayle had on IPL IV. Every time the ball kissed Gayle’s brandishing blade, the clouds trembled with the fear of getting hurt. A certain Parameshwaran certainly has tale to tell his grandchildren.

Slowly but surely, the RCB juggernaut fell in place and a beautiful run of 7 victories on a trot which not only is an IPL record also ensured that RCB topped the league table. The manner in which RCB vanquished an MI side which comprised of the likes of Sachin Tendulkar,Keiron Pollard is something every RCB fan will treasure for a long time.Just when dreams of bringing the IPL trophy to namma Bengaluru began to look real, RCB fell short to a much stronger CSK side. Although, RCB was clearly disadvantaged given that it was playing its second high intensity match within 48 hours, staying true to RCB tradition the team and fans accepted it gracefully.

Sure, we didn’t get the trophy but we didn’t hurt our pride either and chant “Aaar Cee Bee” another day..