being dispassionate

How often do you stop to look around? It is good to stop once a while to have a look around you. Certainly we all do look around and take heed what happens around us to the extent that it affects our life circle. We are worried and concerned about what happens to things and people that affect our life and hence our perception and observation is limited to them. We do see others and other things around us but give hardly any significance and let it go off our mind or over our head because they hardly have anything to do with our lives.

We can effectively have a dispassionate or passionate outlook of beings animate of inanimate depending on our attachment to them. If you have noticed a lot problems are caused by undue worries and tensions that’s attached to our attachments. We are not at all affected by the situation of someone we don’t know. So what makes the difference; the condition of the other, whoever s/he is, or the person or thing no matter what the condition is?

Last of the Karnatic Heroes

After Srinath and Kumble, two astounding performers on the field and gentlemen cricketers, Dravid has put a full stop to his 16 years long career.

Addressed by several names like Jammy, The Wall, Mr. Dependable, Dravid’s temperament and technique will be awfully missed at the No 3 spot. As the man sat down for his final bow in Bangalore, one quote summed up his life, and passion. 'I have failed at times, but I never stopped trying.'

The second most prolific batsman in Test history, and India's middle order warhorse for years, walked into the sunset on Friday 09, bringing down the curtain on a glorious 16-year career.

His valiant efforts will be remembered in the years to come.

Dravid made his ODI debut before his Test debut, against Sri Lanka in Singapore in April 1996.

He made his Ranji Trophy debut in 1991 against Maharashtra in Pune scoring 82 after batting in the No. 7 position, the same position at which he would bat on his Test debut. Dravid fell agonisingly short of a century on debut, making 95 before he nicked one from Chris Lewis to wicket keeper Jack Russell in the Lord’s Test.

His maiden Test century came in his ninth Test, against South Africa in Johannesburg in 1996-97, when he top scored in each innings with 148 and 81. It was also his maiden Man of the Match award. He won 11 Man of the Match awards in Tests, eight of which came overseas.

He became the third Indian batsman after Vijay Hazare and Sunil Gavaskar to score a century in each innings of a Test when he made 190 and 103 not out against New Zealand at Hamilton in 1998-99.

Dravid was the highest scorer in the 1999 World Cup, scoring 461 runs. He was subsequently named one of the five Wisden cricketers of the year in 2000.

Dravid has been involved in the two highest partnerships in ODIs - 331 runs with Sachin Tendulkar and 318 with Sourav Ganguly at Hyderabad and Taunton respectively.

- Dravid has taken four wickets in ODIs and one in test. Dravid has taken the most catches in Test history - 210.  

 In 2002, he scored centuries in four consecutive Test innings - three against England and one against the West Indies. Only Everton Weekes has done better, with five in a row.

highest score in Test cricket is 270 against Pakistan in Rawalpindi in 2004. It is also his highest score in first class cricket. That knock was the longest innings by an Indian in Test cricket in terms of minutes. Dravid spent a staggering 740 minutes at the crease.

Dravid played 94 successive Tests from his debut before missing what would have been his 95th Test against Sri Lanka at Ahmedabad in 2005-06 due to fever. It's the second longest streak of consecutive Tests since debut,behind only Adam Gilchrist (96).

 Dravid has been bowled 55 times in Test cricket, going past Allan Border's previous record of 53. He was bowled in six of his last eight Test innings in Australia.

Dravid has been involved in the most century partnerships in Test cricket - 88 - three ahead of Sachin Tendulkar and Ricky Ponting. Dravid and Tendulkar have been involved in 20 century partnerships in Tests - the most by any pair. Their highest partnership was 249 against Zimbabwe at Nagpur in 2000.

Each of his five double centuries in Tests was a higher score than his previous double century (200 not out, 217, 222, 233, 270).

"At the end of the day, I knew I had to go and I didn't want to drag it any longer." Signed off.

Share unto others

Haven’t you wondered why some are born rich – at least in the material sense – and not others? Some have the best of everything and their children really rock the show while others just wonder as to how to meet both ends and their children starve. Social disparity is born in our society with us humans. Yes, one can give theories and formulas to wipe out such discrepancy and bring about a Marxian social structure where everyone is treated equal and everyone has everything. But we know how far that idealism can go – into the four walls of sociology classes. Even if we justify it with karma theory, the fact of the matter is quite evident and the streams continue to be there.

Finding an answer to such a dilemma prevailing in our society doesn’t prove anything and can be utterly meaningless unless we start doing something in order to satiate the poverty and hunger. If you have something, it only takes a decision of your heart to share with someone who doesn’t. and that’s the premise on which we can build a society that will have less number of poor and suffering and inequality is marginal. If everyone thinks I have what I have not just for my own glorification and extravagance but also to eradicate a little suffering from the face of the earth we can build a happy society around us. yes, easier said than done.

All work & only hard work

Does hard work always pay off? Often times, it would seem so but the fact of the matter could be something different. There is an aura of illusion around us compelling us to reckon that striving hard to reach a milestone makes the stride smoother. Nevertheless, one closer look at the reality would reveal a better or bitter picture otherwise disillusioned by our hazy anticipation. Haven’t you noticed those select few, the ones who seem to be born with silver spoons in mouth, those so-called lucky ones? Aren’t they lucky to be at the thick of things where they are without putting real effort? Most of the time it is not hard work alone that’s constituted to their flourish. Hard work just remains one of the elements that may have helped them heap the success.

Haven’t you at least once felt that despite putting in a lot of hard work you werent able to reap the joy of success and happiness? Of course, success and happiness can in many ways be relative. What can make you jovial and heave in contentment need not arouse any interest in someone else. For this reason, the amount of hard work and methods adopted to do things can vary. But what matters at the end of the day is like someone has said, it is better to cry in your caravan than in a shanty. Well, or is it that fortune favors the brave and hardworking?

break time again

Taking a break,

Meanwhile celebrate a Joy-filled Christmas & prosperous New Year

Advent

Three more Sundays and on the following Sunday we will wake up all exited to celebrate Christmas. Obviously, we are in to the season of Advent already; it is a phase of preparation and waiting for catholic believers who remain in anticipation to welcome the birth of Jesus. Year after year, people live through the season of advent and then Christmas is celebrated.

advent being a time of preparation, expectation n waiting, it is a time lived by all the peoples; Christians or non-Christians, believers or non-believers. We all live through instances of preparation, expectation and waiting in great anticipation in our lives, perhaps on recurring occasions around the year. you minus the religious aspect and the point is driven home clearer. Some instances of waiting can be agonizingly painful while some others can be all exiting and leave you joyful. Even when the wait is long the level of preparation and expectation will never fade or ebb. On the other hand culmination of advent can be horrifying too. Who or what you are waiting decides the swing of balance. It would be amazing to have a Christmassy end to all the advents. But life isnt like that always.

being and becoming

Day and night makes so much difference.



Day light being transparent and clear while night is mystifying and hidden.


Does day light shows up the real you or the night uncovers the real you?


When with others, our near & dear ones, friends, relatives we are what they want us to be. We put on masks, be someone else we are not, masquerading our real self becomes a natural & reflex reaction to being with people around us. There is hardly a thought spared on what we ‘become’ from what we are. From being to becoming…


Look at you when you are alone, none watching you, just in the company of yourself. Do you behave & be the same?


Maybe some of you can…life is like that

did you know?

An opportunity knocks at your door, you ignore it, let it go, yet it will come back to you knocking again or you may have all the time in the world to wait…




But there will be times when a knock wont last long and will occur never again though you wish it did

Some attempts in life you make way too early and some very late…