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I love rediff. I love it a lot. I’m aware that I’m contradicting myself. There are loads of posts where I’ve accepted the fact that I hate rediff. But, come on. Do you think life would be great with no stupid thing around you to make fun of ? or atleast do you think that life would rock in monochrome ? Rediff brings lots of colors of my day, every damn day. Well, I should tell that its not rediff, but its rediff comments which do that.

If any of you guys have seen Southpark, and loved/hated the character Eric Cartman in it, yeah, trust me, You will love comments on rediff. About Cartman, You’ve to read this at Wikipedia. For the lazy folks, here are the tags for you from the content - fat, mean, immature, brat, aggressive, cunning, sociopathy, theorizing, sadistic. Each of these tags can be used to tag most (atleast 80-90%) of the comments at Rediff. Here are few examples of the comments.

• “Power of Bhudhism! Its time India give up following Rama and follow the reformist Budha!”

Guess the context of the above comment. Take a minute and try to come up with some thoughts about it. Try to go beyond your wildest imagination. Uhmm, Dalai lama, or Tibet issue or Chinese ? Ah, no. You are completely wrong. This is a comment on India Vs Srilanka Asia Cup Final match, where India has lost. This great guy came up with theory that in match between Buddha and Rama, Buddha won.

Well, other that the above intelligent comment, the other comments include, Sachin is God. Dada is God, Dhoni is a dhobi, Uthapa Sux, Bring back Dravid, Sehwag cant become Sachin, and Karma. Yeah, you read it correct, karma. One guy thinks that Indian govt supports Srilankan govt to kill innocent people so, we lost Asia Cup final.

• “Rajanikanth has a deep and abiding respect for human life… unless it gets in his way. There is no such thing as global warming. Rajanikanth was cold, so he turned the sun up. Rajanikanth can set ants on fire with a magnifying glass. At night. “

Now, another comment. Guess the context of this great comment. Sivaji movie ? Tamil movie ? South Indian Movie ? South Indian Movie stars ? Hehe, Na. It was a comment on a post where Amitabh praised Smita Patil’s son for his performance in “Jaane tu .. ya jaane na”.

Few other comments on this post include, “BJP Should have supported the deal”. No wonder why he was talking about Nuclear deal on this post. And another guy thinks that Rediff dint receive money from Aamir Khan, so they are praising Smita Patil’s son here. Ultimate Genius.

I found these comments in last one hour. Now, expect the fun you can have when you read rediff comments regularly. But, do remember, over dosage of anything is not good for health. You might even lose your sense of humour because of the immature nature of the comments. So, whenever you are bored, or whenever you feel like you are dumb or stupid, you know where to go.

• Well, for the final touch, here is a great topic in Get Ahead of Rediff titled “I love my maid - should I leave my wife ?”

And for your information, this topic made to the front page of Rediff. Dont forget to read comments on it, especially this one to know the nature of guys posting comments there. After reading few ultra-stupid comments on rediff and few ultra-ultra non-sense articles like this, now I feel like doing something like Cartman. “Screw you rediff, I’m going home !”

As I’ve told already, I hate Oz. Now, after seeing the outcome of second test match, I can tell that I found a reason to hate it even more. Thinking from their perspective, they always had a problem with India. It became visible when they lost to India in the T20 World Cup. With that trophy, they wanted to complete their cabinet and name themselves ‘true’ world-champions. But, India has shattered their dream and sent them home without that trophy. After that, they have seen a whole country celebrating the victory their team and making their team damn rich and super heroes.

Now, from their perspective, one can easily tell that, if - Indians perform like Oz, they are anyway now treated as sample-Gods, they would have been treated like real-Gods. On the other hand, Oz, even with their fantabulous performance, only 59% of their Aussie population is interested in cricket. Infact, ‘Footy’ is ‘most’ watched sport in Australia and more Australians tend to participate in Swimming than Cricket. These reasons are enough for Australian Cricket Players to hate be jealous of ‘Indian’ Cricketers. The outcome of that jealousy is nothing but their desperate attempts to win the game.

Well, yeah. Australian cricket team + 3 Umpires, managed to convert a losing-game into a draw-game and later into a winning-game today. Hats off to Indian players for their patience. I became sick after just watching those replays in news. I’m sure that many Indians who watched match would have been even more pissed off. Indian team proved that they have very good patience at the end of the match by not hitting any of the umpires of Oz players.

Well, yeah, just another fact before ending this post. This post is not to support bad game of Indian team. This is just to make note of bad attitude of Australian team. Indians indeed played badly, but not as bad as to lose the match. For Umpires, Steve Bucknor Fucknor, this is the time for you to retire and Mark Benson, what the heck were you doing on a cricket ground ???

He is a British-educated lawyer
He is the first “colored” lawyer admitted to the bar in South Africa
He invented a new weapon for fighting - Ahimsa
He is the Father of the Nation which boasts being biggest democracy

The above hints might not be helpful for current generation to identify our Bapu. But, certainly there are couple of hints which might be of very helpful for them in identifying him.

The old guy who talks to Munna Bhai in Lage Raho Munna Bhai movie

This hint might be very helpful for the current generation kids to identify him. But, in India, politicians, often being under-educated than a sixth class student would be knowing a lot about Abu Bhai or Dawood Bhai, but not the “first” Bhai of “South Africa”. I’ve a very easy hint for them to identify the person who made India to appear on World Map as India.

Politician uncle, I’m talking about the smiling person on our currency notes

Now, I don’t think there would be any Indian who didn’t manage to recognize the hero of this post. I’m not a fan of him personally but I’m a very big fan of one of his weapons to fight against Injustice - Non-cooperation. Sorry, I don’t remember the exact dialogue, below is “form” of a dialogue taken from one movie

Do whatever you want. I will accept the punishment you give. And after it’s over, I will do the same what I’ve done for what you’ve punished me

In the movie, he states that he learned this technique from his wife, and the fact is I’ve seen same form of war-tactic in almost every girl/woman I’ve seen.

United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution declaring Bapu’s birthday (2nd October) to be the “International Day of Non-Violence.” Bapu, being the person who flashes in any person’s mind when he listens to the word “peace” was nominated for the Nobel peace prize five times, in 1937, 1938, 1939,1947 and 1948, but wasn’t given the Nobel Prize. However, recently, Michael Sohlam, the Executive Director of Nobel Foundation in Sweden said that not awarding him the Nobel Peace Prize was a great mistake done by the Nobel Foundation. May be, it was Bapu’s wish not to be awarded the prize given on the name of the inventor of “dynamite” and owner of “Bofors”

No doubts about it. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi a.k.a Bapu a.k.a our Currency Guy is one of the Greatest Gifts given to India by God.

Even though, all my optimist expectations on World Cup became true, I had a very pessimist expectations on outcomes of Indian win.

1. Twenty20 World Cup will be conducted once in every two years. Does that mean, once in two years, there are more chances of mobs burning effigies of cricketers or cricket board as well as state governments pouring money on cricketers.
2. Yuvi is given 1 crore as well as a Porsche 911 by BCCI for his 6 sixers on England and 70-run knock in Aussie match. India played like a team where Yuvi made his mark in 2 out of 6 matches, where as contributions of players like Gambhir, Uthappa, RP Singh, Irfan Pathan, Bajji and even Sreesanth were of greater use in remaining matches. We need to remember that Yuvi was indirect reason for the defeat with NZ giving 38 runs in 3 overs (20 odd runs in single over) runs in single over and scoring just 5 runs in the match. When each and every player played an equally important role in the series, those two giant goodies from the board went only to Yuvi which can certainly make remaining players think.
3. Goodies given to the players by their respective state governments is a different thing. But, this is made an issue by players of another game, Hockey. Indian Hockey Team, which won Asia Cup without losing a single match and with record performances like thrashing Sri Lanka with 20-0 certainly couldn’t withstand the step-motherly treatment for the national game by central and state governments and is now planning to go on a hunger strike.

When a go-straight brain like mine could see so many problems, I wonder what would those complicated brains perceive all this.

Taking all these complications into account, Indian Government either has to check all these goodies given “only” to cricketers or it should start giving bank checks with similar numbers on it to players of other games too.

Update: The complicated brains have started analysis on “Why was Team India in the back row ?” while the front row was occupied by great ministers of Maharashtra and greater BCCI crowd. Great to see that it became a political heavy weights’ meeting rather than the function to honor the World Cup winning team.

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Wondering whether a movie can bring Good Luck to a nation ? A definite logical answer to the question is “No”. Not Just “No”, but it’s “NO!!!”

But, let’s trace through this time line

• August 10, 2007 - Chak De India starring SRK is released
• August 29, 2007 - Football, India won Nehru Cup [1]
• September 9, 2007 - Hockey, India won Asia Cup [2]
• September 24, 2007 - Cricket, India won T20 World Cup [3]

Lets do the analysis on the above wins.

1. Football, I knew that India had a football team, but never knew that it can even win a cup. The only cup it wins is South Asian Football Federation Gold Cup participated by Maldives (165), Pakistan (179), Afghanistan (191), Sri Lanka (166), Bangladesh (175), Nepal (185), Bhutan (197) and of course India (145). The numbers in brackets are rankings given by FIFA to the national teams of respective countries. Don’t wonder if there are 197 nations in the world looking at Bhutan’s rank, there should be; atleast according to FIFA, there are 200 ranks and 208 nations. As per the above rankings, India should be the obvious winner of SAFF Cup. On the other hand, participant nations of Nehru Cup ’07 are Syria (123), Kyrgyzstan (149), Cambodia (178), Bangladesh (175) and India. Obvious finalists are India and Syria and India won with 1-0 score which no-one expected as India never reached Finals of Nehru Cup.

2. Hockey, despite being national game of India is often neglected. But this year, Asia Cup is a very special tournament for India as they entered as defending champions. India started this tournament with a very mediocre win of 1-0 on China. Later, India played at its best while thrashing Sri Lanka with 20-0, Thailand with 16-0. In final, they out performed Korea with 7-2, all the seven goals being field goals. India ended the tournament with 57 goals and just 5 goals against them without a single defeat.

3. Cricket, after the dismal performance at 2007 World Cup, no one expected India to win Twenty20 World Cup. Seniors understood that they can’t play this type of fast paced game and took leave from this tournament. Guess, this was the new beginning for the team with just love for the game and hardly any experience. Knocked out two great teams South Africa and Australia and won a thrilling match over the arch rivals Pakistan in finals. No other win can be sweeter than this.

Football, After 13 tries, Indian Team won Nehru Cup
Hockey, India thrashing Korea to defend title, not with Penalty Corners but with high quality Field Goals. BTW, Entire Chak De squad were there to support Team India for the final.
Cricket, After world cup first round exit, just after losing ODI series to England, with experience of JUST ONE International Twenty20 match, leaving seniors behind, with a captain who is leading his first tournament, with performances not by a single player, India WON the first Twenty20 Cricket World Cup. SRK was there on the final.

All this happened just after the movie is released. I’m being silly trying to convince that Movie could be the reason for India’s luck. But, I’m sure that all the three teams must have followed what SRK told in the movie.

Play for India first, then for the team, if anything is still left then play for yourself

Any Indian cricket fan can tell that this hardly happened in our team, till this tournament. Chak De India !