CELEBRATION??

Hurray!!! yet another booker for India!!Arvind adiga wins the Man booker prize 2008 for "The white tiger".


Indeed a moment of joy and pride for India.Havent yet read the book perhaps will do it soon...but from what I can gather the book exposes the dark side of India.But is it right on the part of Indian authors to cash on the dark side of India?Isnt it like demeaning India before the world? And to top it all it is a work of fiction if not to uplift the image but to disparage it even further.


India will be construed by its readers as a country with invincible poverty,ever looming illiteracy,esurient beings,abandoned kids,grubby streets,trifling governance,nepotism,larceny and ofcourse as the land of corruption.

Iam sure my perception is not largely cogent since a book is just a piece of art!but it does leave an impact on the minds of the readers... So should we celebrate the booker??

HOLIDAY time...frenzy time

Its dasara time and hence holiday time for all the school kids. 

Every available piece of flat land  around my house and in its vicinity is being used to chase the cherry.Cricket is like the hobson's  choice for all the kids to keep themselves occupied

all  day.Its like they are on a spree to obliterate their surroundings.Not like I havent experienced this  before 

just that I havent seen it in this kind of intensity.Curtsy 

our state government for making yet another nugatory rule that 

all schools ought to have a common vacation time for dasara.... 

Its quotidian to find kids playing cricket in the evenings 

but it gets freakin chafing when you have to listen to -

quibbles over "out...no...not out",squallings of "run out" and "lbw",

and roars of "howz dat" for like 50000 times a day....

          But what is most admirable about this whole thingy is the 

insouciance these kids possess.Just some wood,a bouncing cherry

and a piece of timber and they are all set to play the gentlemen's game the way it should be played unlike our national paladins who get moolah for it and yet they fail to retain the sanctity of the gentlemen's game.