Tuesday, September 25, 2007

2020 SUPERPOWER?!!

Today I read in headlines in Economic Times 'INDIA superpower in 2020' … well, who expected India to win the 2020 world cup?!, but they WON !…
and who expects INDIA, as a economy, to really become superpower by 2020,.. People say it's a bit far fetched dream of Abdul Kalam (our Ex-President had quoted that INDIA will be superpower in 2020, during his 5 year stay at rashtrapati bhavan)
one thing I am sure about is that its not only 11 men's job as it was done yesterday in a cricket 2020….
it's a job of more than 50 crore young Indians!!! … so can we prove it !? .or we will simply be a spectator of others' achievements,… bask on hardwork done by someone else and keep waiting for INDIA to become superpower…
well, INDIA will become superpower, but now it's a matter of how soon.. whether in 2020 or 2050!?.. that answer has to be given by us!! .. not just by talking, but by DOing!! .. as SRK says in LEAD INDIA advt.… DOMINATION starts with DO…

well, coming back to lighter mood.. the T20 WC was indeed a fairy tale journey for team india , and for that matter, Pakistan too.. both teams miserably knocked out of the WC of bigger version of the same game… both teams in the hands of a young captain… both teams devoid of experienced minds (rather slow legs) … so much in common.. but there was one more thing in common about this whole event .. INDIA has never lost a WC match against PAK.. and thankfully, law of averages didn't catch up yesterday!!, YES, INDIA won .. team who had bid farewell to the top 3 contenders of WC, that's England, SA and Australia…
and also corroborated one thing yesterday… 'The probability of winning is inversely proportional to the expectation of people ' .. well, I did end on a sarcastic note about INDIA.. but sarcasm is my middle name (again, taking nothing away from my DAD, who officially forms my middle name .. hehehehe) … ;-)
thanks for reading guys… had just written this for fun, by the time I wait for my INFY service desk to install some stupid software tool on my PC …

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Home Sweet Home

The moment I stepped out of an airplane in Mumbai this time … I felt the tickling of cool breeze flowing across the airport fields (mumbai and cold breeze sounds a bit of a paradox, but i was back from chennai, so talking on relative terms )… the aroma of the Mumbai air, which had made me a big time complainant till 1 and half a year back, gave a mesmerising feeling to my nasal senses…
Embarking out of airport on mumbai streets, took an auto and started towards home sweet home… enroute to home, I saw the common sight on andheri-kurla road.. thats the the sign boards, warning you to ‘Go slow. work in progress’ ... I have always and seriously felt that they have misplaced a punctuation mark, the more apt message is ‘Go. Slow work in progress’… anyways, each instance of that sight used to resurge the frowning half of me, when I frequented that road in my college days...but this time it brought a bright smile on my face, as many times as it made me curse then! …
The beggars, the stink of mithi river (which was known only as one big gutter before 26th july rain made it famous), the rash driving of auto drivers... all gave a feeling of homeliness and made me Blissful :)....
back home.. however tired you are, somehow miraculously, all weariness disappears ...

And the moment I entered my home, I saw the most beautiful face…mom standing in front of me with a beaming smile and loads of satisfaction clearly evident on her face…HEAVEN! ...