Hostel Cricket

It is 5 in the morning .
And it has been 4 hours since I have been playing cricket with all the guys who have stayed back in the summer holidays in the hostel.
Love to have started playing again, after nearly 3 years.
And would like to keep this memory forever , the whole 'bakar' game that is played , and where teams seem to be at war , where some are identified for ' uski to bajaani hi hai' , where sometimes the scrotum of the other team players are the target , where , ma- bhen derivatives know no bounds , where sledging happens intra as well as inter-team , where the sound of the bat connecting to the ball is better than any sweet music , where a 4 or a 6 is celebrated by showing gestures which would never be shown in a social gathering , where we can transform into 10 year olds quarreling about a boundary , a wide or even the rules that apply to the game , where a game finishes every 10 minutes and a new star batsmen or bowler emerges for each.

The heat is a deterrent for us in the day , the humidity is the reason for us cribbing to go home , but when it is cricket , we don't even care , whether after an hour of play , even our vests are to be taken off.

Only when the birds start chirping and when the first rays of the sun can be seen destroying the darkness around , giving a heavenly bluish tinge to the sky , do we call our game off.

The public's verdict

16 th May would always be a milestone in the indian politics. The verdict of the people is conspicuously clear , we no more can tolerate a government made of goons (of the RJD), a polity of nonsecular ( yes , which makes more sense after one of my friends told me the three 'basic' issues addressed by the BJP) people or representatives who brand themselves on the basis of caste ( with special reference to Mr. Pasvan).

Seeing the mandate , it is clear that the public still wants grass root politics , where candidates go to their villages and ask their problems ( as Rahul Gandhi did in UP) , not pompous advertising on every website you visit ( the campaign showing Advani humped ; which I got to know was even there on some porn sites) or someone who sits on the seat of power as if a queen ( and then calls herself 'dalit ki beti').

Mr Lone loosing his debut election shows that even the awam of Kashmir does not want seperatist leaders( considering a majority of people voting).

It is a landmark election , where at last , after some 15 years we would have a stable and independant government.

Looking = Eveteasing

Attached is a snapshot from the blank noise project .
15% of the people who have voted here think that looking , yes , looking is a way of eve teasing.
Well , I agree staring is , but looking?

And , for me the most surprising part is that 15% people also voted that , other than the ways of eve teasing in the list here, there are other ways of eve teasing as well. How can people think of so many ways!

Languages

And suddenly I want to learn Bengali for reading Tagore , Latin for Dante and Sanskrit for The Gita.