Bury the scoundrels !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have a very nice suggestion, in case the CWG games are called off, and that is to fill up the J.N stadium to its capacity and in full view of a packed stadium bury both these scoundrels Kalmadi and Bhanot up to their necks in concrete, and let them rot there. By this noble act the full shame that these two corrupt crooks have brought on our nation will never go away, but at least those of us who are seething inside will find some peace with the sense that at least some justice is being done.

By his stupid remarks on television watched by the whole world, Bhanot has confirmed that he pisses in his own living room and sleeps on beds soiled by dogs. That is his standard and personal life style and he is very smug and happy about it. We the nation of India do not have any objections to his life style and his standard of living, but saying that his standard of hygine is the same as the rest of India is disgusting. He should be hanged for this. He has announced to the world that we proud Indians are filthy and live the way that he does.I don't think anyone of us can ever forget him for this.

The rest of the world has already written of the Commonwealth games and for all of us Indians it is the tragedy of this century, when all of us helplessly watched a small group of men swindling crores and crores of rupees, enhancing their personal wealth and putting all of us to shame.

When Judas' rule the day

Once upon a time in ancient times
Lived a man named Judas
Seemed Humble but was wily,
Was always there ready to please
Joined the Lord and played his wiles
And became one of the chosen twelve.

As one of the chosen twelve
He lived and shared life with the Lord
Always professing love and eternal devotion
He followed him wherever he went
And, to all around there was no one
As devoted and as humble as he.

But, all the while his heart was cold
Scheming and making plans to betray,
His master and Lord, in the most heinous way
For a few pieces of silver
He did it in the end
With just a HUG and a KISS.

Just a hug and a kiss mean so much
To so many in this world today
True love and feelings of loved ones
Who mean and care so much
Are swept aside and forgotten when the Judas’
Encircle you with hugs and kisses.

Oh ! these sweet hugs and kisses of betrayal
Seem to blind so many around us
While true love and feelings from their loved ones
That are so profound and true are ignored.
But true love sustains in the end
From all these assaults of hugs and kisses.

Why do bonds of love and relationships
Have to go through such pain and sufferings?
Why not the victims who are our loved ones ever realise
The existence of so many Judas’
Who lure and blind them today, will tomorrow
Will only betray with a hugs and a kisses.

As he once did our Lord.

Conspiracy theories

The Pakistani match fixing scandal story is running on expected lines. Their High Commissioner based in London is on a fast track mode to destroy whatever little credibility is left. The disease of cover ups, be it in politics, on terrorism and now in sport seems to only spread rather than subside. Every utterance coming out of the mouths of the Pakistani officials only makes the world laugh. Unfortunately sane voices of people like Imran Khan and others who played the game with passion and pride are quashed. I do not think any international side would like to play cricket with Pakistan any longer because the cheats seem to have taken over the game there. With each passing day the number of suspects in the team is rising and the officials instead of addressing the issue are burning the midnight oil to come out with innovative theories of international conspiracies against Pakistan. They don’t realise that these silly cover up stories have gone stale and nobody believes in them any longer. The High Commissioner would have been better off writing suspense thrillers instead of being the country’s diplomat.

As usual the first finger is always pointed at India and in this case also at the ICC, and the rats which had all drowned in the recent floods have re surfaced in the High Commissoner’s closet, as he has stated that he is smelling a rat.........hahahahaha.. He is yet to understand how deep this crisis is for Pakistan cricket is and therefore should be immediately removed from any position involved in conducting enquiries and investigations related to this scandal. Each minute of his continuing will take Pakistan another step downhill. People like Imran Khan, Sarfraz Nawaz, Abdul Khadir should be immediately brought in with instructions to come down on all those guilty with a iron hand. Never mind if the entire team is sacked. It is no longer a situation of being innocent until proven guilty, but guilty until proven innocent. That is the one and only hope for Pakistan cricket or else it is goodbye. And this would also destroy all sport in Pakistan.

Conspiracy theories

The Pakistani match fixing scandal story is running on expected lines. Their High Commissioner based in London is on a fast track mode to destroy whatever little credibility is left. The disease of cover ups, be it in politics, on terrorism and now in sport seems to only spread rather than subside. Every utterance coming out of the mouths of the Pakistani officials only makes the world laugh. Unfortunately sane voices of people like Imran Khan and others who played the game with passion and pride are quashed. I do not think any international side would like to play cricket with Pakistan any longer because the cheats seem to have taken over the game there. With each passing day the number of suspects in the team is rising and the officials instead of addressing the issue are burning the midnight oil to come out with innovative theories of international conspiracies against Pakistan. They don’t realise that these silly cover ups have gone stale and nobody believes in them any longer. The High Commissioner would have been better off writing suspense thrillers instead of being the country’s diplomat.

As usual the first finger is always pointed at India and in this case also at the ICC, and the rats which had all drowned in the recent floods have re surfaced in the High Commissoner’s closet, as he has stated that he is smelling a rat.........hahahahaha.. He is yet to understand how deep this crisis is for Pakistan cricket is and therefore should be immediately removed from any position involved in conducting enquiries and investigations related to this scandal. Each minute of his continuing will take Pakistan another step downhill. People like Imran Khan, Sarfraz Nawaz, Abdul Khadir should be immediately brought in with instructions to come down on all those guilty with a iron hand. Never mind if the entire team is sacked. It is no longer a situation of being innocent until proven guilty, but guilty until proven innocent. That is the one and only hope for Pakistan cricket or else it is goodbye. And this would also destroy all sport in Pakistan.

Match fixing and cricket

Over a decade ago the match fixing scandal in cricket almost destroyed the game. A lot of prominent cricketers like Azharuddin, Jadeja, Manoj prabhakar, Salim malik, Hansie Cronje to name a few saw an abrupt end to their careers. Since then slowly the scar seemed to have faded and the game of cricket seemed to have come out of its worst ever crisis. The ICC formed an anti corruption unit and these retired law enforcement officials appointed by the ICC seemed to keep a close watch on all matches and players, and have things under control.

Yet every now and again murmurs were being heard and fingers were being pointed mostly at the Pakistan players and at times others like the West Indians. Various investigations have being held now and then, the most serious being the one after the death of Bob woolmer, when a section of the world press said that he was done away with since he knew too much. The Pakistani board more than once conducted investigations of their own, suspended many a player , only to bring them back a few months later citing lack of evidence or misunderstanding or language problems.

But over the past week the scandal seems to have returned with a vengeance like the plague of ancient times. Nobody now knows where all this will lead to. To cricket lovers like me the whole thing brings a very bad taste in the mouth. I don’t know which one of the matches that I have passionately watched over the years sometime losing sleep, sometimes missing work, sometimes missing holidays are real and which ones are fixed. If all the matches that I have watched have been fixed then I would be better off switching to watching WWF wrestling on TV from now on. It also builds a rage within that me and I am sure with all the other cricket lovers across the world that we have been taken for a royal ride by these fake stars, who in my opinion will not hesitate to sell their own mothers for a few additional pennies.

Look at the wages and the endorsements that each one of them are getting these days, look at the life style of these cricketers in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and West indies where the majority of the population lives below poverty line.They live in lavish bungalows, drive about in the latest cars and yet they have to sell their own souls for a few additional bucks. In my rage sometimes, I seem to blame the whole lot of players, but deep within I would still like to believe that the Gavaskars, Tendulakars and Dravids whom I have worshipped all these years are beyond this. But again if there are one or two worms in a team of 11, it will reflect on the entire team and taint the country.

The Aussies today are sympathizing with some of these crooks and passing statements like their culture has driven them to do it. Is it not shameful to come upon such comments? A country that came into existence just around 200 years ago, pointing at our culture which began with the Indus valley civilization. We who first civilized the world now have to listen to lectures on culture and upbringing from these upstarts and descendants of re settled convicts.

I fully endorse the summons issued by the Lahore High court and filing cases of treason against these tainted players. Their act is nothing less than treason and should be dealt with severely. However, going by previous instances one does not see anything positive coming out of it. Some of the ministers in Pakistan have already begun working on conspiracy theories to ward of public opinion and anger. This as always is the most convenient excuse. Whenever there is an internal problem, blame it on external conspiracies and hide the dirt under the carpet. Unfortunately for Pakistan the dirt has become a mound and may soon grow into a mountain. Don’t be surprised if you see these players suspended for a few months and then brought back next year for the world cup to play more havoc in the cricketing world. In a land of adjustments and percentages anything can happen. Not so long ago the current president himself had a nickname of Mr. 10 percent.

The story goes on

Back in January 2010 about 8 months ago, I had written on the pathetic state of Indian sport. Looking at the situation with the CWG today my posting came in 8 months too early.
Since January things have not improved one bit, instead have deteriorated further. We have an 80 plus lady heading Hockey India, simply because the controlling mafia does not want to see change and bring in a new person who could expose the skeletons in the cupboard. The Hockey coach has put up his hands in surrender saying that he has lost and our corrupt system has won. Suresh Kalmadi the chief destroyer of Indian sport shamelessly continues in his post and also keep interfering in every other sport. The country has been put to shame by the actions of Kalmadi and his chelas and internationally we have become laughing stocks. He will never quit his post until he physically dragged and thrown out.
Anyway why should he?. As a businessman he combines his personal foreign business trips along with those of the Olympic association and puts to use the money supposed to be spent on the welfare of sport for his personal needs. Expensive wine flows at the sports annual meets in five star hotels while at the same time the athletes do not get paid their wages and allowances. They do not get proper diet in camps. Millions of dollars have been siphoned off during the past few years which were meant for infrastructure development for the CWG. Everybody in Kalamdi’s group has made money and are sitting cosy.
Last year our minister of sports proposed limited tenures for heads of sports bodies. This was a right proposal and everyone should have supported it. Kalmadi started screaming and crying then, but no other MP came forward in support of the sports minister, because lots of politicians cutting across party lines are heading various sports bodies and they too did not want to lose their positions. Even though I am not a great fan of Mani Shankar Aiyar, I must agree that what he says about the CWG and Indian sport is true. Be very clear that these games will in no way help improve Indian sport. They will only succeed in making Kalmadi and his chamchas richer. In the end we will be left with sub standard infrastructure which will eventually rot and wither. Kalmadi and his chelas will continue ruling Indian sport and taking it further and further down.................what a waste.

The pathetic state of indian sport

We have just now witnessed the war between the Indian hockey players and the association, wherein the players finally won. They won not because of the magnanimity of the association, but due to the huge public outcry and the contributions made by some business houses to pay the players dues. If not for the public outcry the association would have continued to bully the players and then chosen a Z grade to represent India at the world cup. Who in the association cares as long as he / she gets his airlines tickets, 5 star hotel stay and daily parties wherever the association meetings are held. They have money for all this, but have nothing to pay the players.

What the players did this time was perfectly right and perfectly timed. Crudely we can say that the players had the association by the balls. It is also highly commendable that the media and the public stood behind the players and put and end to this nonsense quickly.

This particular situation is not restricted only to Hockey. All Indian sports including athletics, wrestling, archery, boxing, football suffer from the same. A few years ago when Mr Shahnawaz Hussain was the sports minister glimpses of a party of the athletic association of India in a five star hotel were shown on TV. Most of the attendees were having a gala time drinking expensive liquor and posing blatantly in front of cameras. Yet this same association said that they did not have the money to pay for the athletes food and milk while they were undergoing training in camps. There are no modern stadia anywhere in the country, no infrastructure, and not even the basic needs of the players and athletes and sportsmen are met. Nobody is able to answer as to where the millions of rupees sanctioned in the annual budget towards national sports go. And nobody cares to find out.

Most of the heads and administrators of these sports bodies have had nothing to do with sport in their lives. They are politicians who have somehow sneaked their way into these bodies and hijacked them, to gain status, free foreign trips with families, eat, drink and make merry in 5 star hotels all the while when Indian sport has been dying a slow and painful death.

Even though the cricket board is rich with tonnes of money, its board members do all kinds of nonsense except promoting the game of cricket. They have turned the sport into business as the Income Tax commissioner has herself pointed out in today’s newspapers. Where is the effort by the board to promote test cricket which is the purest form of cricket. In fact if they have their way, no test cricket will be played in 5 years time. Our heroes in the board will see to it.

A wrong perception has been spread around by vested interests saying that former sportspersons cannot run the game because they lack administrative and management skills, but the state of Indian sport clearly shows as to how the so called people with administrative and management skills have destroyed all sport in the country over 60 years. Yet they don’t want to give up.

However all is not lost yet and we can change this negative situation into a positive one. We have a media today which is alert and active and this hockey episode conveys a very positive message that the general public along with media support can change things. We must somehow all join together and with the help of the media sweep away all these parasites that are running Indian sport today. They simply are not fit to occupy these positions. It should be seen that senior sports men from the past who have represented the country occupy all important positions in all sports bodies. They can hire professionals to manage money and administration. This will bring back passion and interest. Strong sports bodies who have sport at heart will surely encourage young people to take up sport seriously. With proper management and accountability industrial houses will surely come forward and contribute towards the betterment of Indian sport. Today they are discouraged in doing so because they see their money going down the drain, as it is being swallowed by corrupt officials. If all this happens we will surely see a positive change happening in Indian sport is less than 5 years. I for one am 100% sure.

I sympathize with Mr Devegowda & family

The recent outburst by Mr Devegowda against Mr Yeddi the Chief Minister of Karnataka is understandable and one ought to sympathize with him.

A man who held power for long either directly or through proxy is somehow not able to digest the fact that he is no longer in power and not able to influence anyone either in the state or at the national level.

Even though he and his family have accumulated enough wealth over the years both through fair and foul means, these days the money making machines have run dry and without money the Gowda family does not know how to run the party ar create trouble in the state.

He had banked hopes first and was very confident on being a king maker at the national level with his single digit number of MP's and was making loud noises at the time of the general elections. He was very confident that the congress would come to him with a begging bowl for support. In the end all his plans bit the dust. His son was seen sneaking into Mrs Sonia Gandhi's house covering his face, the purpose of which was to beg for a ministerial berth. The congress plainly said NOTHING DOING.

The next plan was to bring down the Yeddi government through some crooked means and with the congress support. But this venture too seems to have failed after how the Gowda gang backstabbed both the congress and the BJP the last time. The congress is in no mood to extend any support to the Gowda clan as they have seen enough of this family in the past.

Today this family has become untouchable and a laughing stock in the state. Added to this is the likelihood of losing large chunks of illgotten land along the Bangalore Mysore corridor if the project goes ahead, has simply driven the senior Gowda out of control and he does not seem to have control over his senses.

Therefore i fully understand his outbursts and what is going on within him. After decades in politics failure stares at him during his final years, and he is simply not able to digest this fact. The ghost of Ramakrishna Hegde seems to be haunting him now.

It is therefore time for him to quit politics and retire and also for his sons and family to follow him. There are many other business opportunities available in today's progressive India and they should choose some other option for themselves and not politics. Their presence in politics has only brought misery upon themselves and the citizens of Karnataka.