Sachinnnnn sachin

And it was finally done. Aishwarya couple named their baby
after 4 months (wonder what they were waiting for ), and immediately sachin
scored his 100th 100 thus getting renamed as TONdulkar by media.
It was all a confusing types on a single day. I was not able
to understand why the media seemed to be so relieved knowing that the AB's
named their baby. I understand that they are celebrity couple, but it went too
much this time. More than the AB family, i felt the media was worried with the
unnamed baby(they even went to the extent of naming it Beti B for temporary
sake. Like the Temp registration for cars). Today morning when i read in the
paper about this, I was made to think as if even I was waiting for this to
happen. The news was really forcing us to believe whatever silly news they had
to sell. Foolish me. [putting this within brackets to avoid self-embarrassment.
In spite of such silly news being stuffed into that movie supplement of the
paper, i still continue to read it. So to summarize it, the above view point
may not indicate that i'm super fed up with this supplement paper. Rather it
may be indicate how i waste time in reading such useless stuff and later make
fun of myself. Confusing isn't it? That's what i said at the beginning of the
paragraph!].

And its time now for people to air their opinion. But
thankfully, i was part of a evening Tea-group which used the ocassion to
discuss innovative scenarios out of this milestone of Tondulkar. So, what are
the takeaways for Bangla after this historic milestone? The bowler can tell his
kids n grandkids - "See, he scored his 100th run of 100th 100 in my over.
see see... ". To help him further, cricket channels will keep airing this
innings till eternity(borrowed this word - eternity - from a fb update on same
topic ;) !! increases the impact of the sentence).

Back to the office, I was made to attend a meeting (why
didnt i take my bike key while going for tea-break??????). Outside the meeting
room, typpical indian ishtyle statements started to come out of the
self-proclaimed cricket experts. "So did he announce
retirement?""No no, he will announce it tomorrow". "Only
against team like Bangla he can score". "Ya, bangla, Kenya....
(pause).... Afghanistan". Afghan?? How on earth could you imagine them
even play gully cricket ?

Then it was our country's finance minister's turn to slam a
similar slap on us with his budget. The day just ended with lot of confusion. I
kind of ended up linking the two incidences of the day. When i logged into my
laptop and opened the IE, the default homepage opened up msn.com which was
showing the slides of rare photographs of master blaster. The different phases
of indian economy was visible in those snaps(i thought). When he started his
cricket career, hardly any sponsorors where there to sponsor his bat or jersy.
Post 91-92, when the indian economy got liberalised - opening the doors for
global market - the changes started becoming evident. WILLS replaced POWER from
his bat . MRF then dethroned the Wills occupying a permanent place almost till
he reached his 90th century. The indian team jersy suddenly felt the pressure
similar to real estate. Companies started fighting in tender wars to get a
prominent place for their logo on the jersy. All this signified how the govt's
monopolistic grip on the country's economy, due to socialistic policies, got
loosened and liberated as the time progressed, thus letting the market to
incubate the new companies as well as welcoming the global majors. Even the
cricket stands seemed to be a witness for this. Growing job markets offered
more employement opportunities for the people. This made them afford the luxury
of buying tickets to watch the match at stadium, buy the team jersy,
after-match celebration etc.

But then, i had a fear whether i've been thinking too much
about indian economy. Because, i felt i've become so insane in linking Sachin's
photopgraph with Indian economy. will any normal cricket fan will do this? I
quickly closed the browser and started watching you tube video!

Bottom item: I had this question in my mind recently as to
why i write blogs and waste time. The only answer i could get was that it makes
me happy to see my thoughts getting a shape in form of a blog. when the mind
seems to be too much troubled with overflow of various thoughts, I put it in a
paper and give it a shape. Thus i can take off the load out of mind, as well as
give a shape to the thoughts.