Remember when you failed an examination. How many people recall that, your class, friends, relatives? You failed to make it to the IITs or IIMs. Who remembers. How many times have you had the feeling of being the best in your class, school , university, state, you failed to get a visa stamped this quarter…, you missed a promotion this year…, how did it feel when you dad told you in your early twenties that you are good for nothing,and now your boss tell you the same..
You keep introspecting and go into a shell when people most of whom don’t matter a dime in your life criticize you, back bite you, make fun of you. You are left sad and shattered and you cry when your own kin scoffs at you. You say I am feeling low today. It takes a lot from us to come out of these everyday situations and move on. A lot? really?
Now here’s a man standing on the third man boundary in the last over of a world cup match. The bowler just has to bowl sensibly to win this game. What the man at the boundary sees is 4 rank bad bowls bowled without any sense of focus, planning or regret. India loses, yet again in those circumstances when he has done just about everything right.
He does not cry. Does not show any emotion. Just keeps his head down and leaves the field. He has seen these failures for 22 years now. And not just his class, relatives, friends but the whole world has seen these failures. We are too immature to even imagine what go
Re: SACHIN this is for you
by Gladiator on Apr 04, 2011 07:53 AM
goes on in that mind and heart of his.
He has single handedly lifted moods of this entire nation umpteen number of times. He has been an inspiration to rise above our mediocrity. Nobody who has ever lifted the willow even comes close to this man’s genius. His dedication and metal strength is unparallel. This is specially for those people who would have made fun of him when India loses. They are people who are mediocre in their own lives. Who just scoff at others to create cheap fun. Who have lived in a small hole throughout their lives and thought they have seen the oceans.
Imagine what would be the magnitude of the inner struggle for him, pain both mental and physical, tears that have frozen with time, knees and ankles and every other joint in the body that is either bandaged or needs to be attended to every night, eyes that don’t sleep before a big game, bats that have scored 99 international tons and still see expectations from a billion people. And he just converts those expectations into reality. We watch in awe, feel privileged.
It was time that his team realizes that enough is enough. They have an obligation, not towards their country alone but towards sachin. They need to win this one for him and they did. This is not just a game, and he is not just a sportsman. Its much more than this. Words fail here..
As Virat rightly said: Tendulkar has carried the burden of nation for 21 years; It was time we carried him.
I wish our politicians and president (specially) had some life in them, she was merely doing this for formality and to be in the news. It looked so monotonous, hardly ever made an effort to speak to the team, even shook hands with nehra despite him having a broken finger and he had to whince in pain while this lady didnt even notice this! AND WORST OF ALL WEARS "GREEN" WHILE THE WORLD KNOWS WE BLEED "BLUE".. POOR from the president.
i appreciate Indian Cricket team but Indians should give prominence and respect to our indian hockey team giving them good fat salary or its shame to whole nation.
Re: Sachin always chokes on the big occasion
by om shanti on Apr 04, 2011 07:25 AM
Your thinking and Pakistani thinking is similar.
But in the process you are insulting two legendary marathies like Sachin Tendulkar and Zaheer Khan.
Further,why donot you say that lower caste north Indians like Dhoni,Kohli,Yuvraj etc should be including replacing all higher caste players?
Why do you not further sub-divide to Dhoni(east india),Munaf(west india),and so on...
You people are surviving on resources looted from the tribal belt of MP,Jharkhand,Chattisgarh,North East and surviving on them thanks to looters association in New Delhi and still you have the audacity to divide the nation based on region...
Re: ..
by ragavendran krrao on Apr 04, 2011 09:44 AM
The success and self sufficiency of Americans is because most of their organizations are run by private sectors.
Though we are cricket crazy. we dont realise that most of the world respect olumpic and football. we are zero in both game. its time to wake up. we should use the resources created by cricket and transfer them to promote football and olumpic. if we can do it cricket we can also do it in other game. jai ho.
Re: India win should be used to for other game.
by Vishnu Sharma on Apr 04, 2011 06:19 AM
Well said. Harness the power and potential of all of India in pursuit of this Grand Goal which will bring Gold.
is a national shame. She reminds me of the bhai who did cooking when I lived in Mumbai. HAving said that, someone told me that Pratibha Patil was a kitchen assistant for Gandhi family. Sonia rewarded her for loyalty not for the political skills. She was the best domestic help hired by Gandhi family. Dont worry, soon you will have Ambika Soni doing the same.
Manmohan and Sonia have had their vertebras replaced by rubber tubes that can bend 360 degrees.
Re: President of India
by Shake Hasina on Apr 04, 2011 11:07 AM
Oh you porki Akbar,
What do you Kasais know about the women of this sub-continent!!
Don't come here and write any rubbish about our President....... ...... or I start posting Zardari jokes banned by your Paki Authorities, here, like:
A man standing in a long line for food tells the others in the line that he is leaving the line to go to shoot the president. He returns after a few hours and rejoins the line. “Did you manage to kill him“, everyone asks him. “No, that line is longer than this one“, he replies.
