Yes, there are more important things than the pitch-report at the Chinnaswamy Stadium! Will the track be spinning or bouncing is not the only question doing the rounds today...
The world is falling apart, but who cares. There are things that need our attention immediately. We've been reading about them in the papers. In the headlines, the page of International Affairs....where we do take a moment to think about the gravity of the situation and then carelessly flip over to the Sports-page.
First and foremost, the arrogance of the son of a gun - Muammar Muhammad al-Gaddafi, who is so not used to not being in power. He was the one, who led the Military to overthrow the Monarchy, and then himself assumed power as the 'be all-end all' of Libya. If you care to 'wiki' him, you'll be appalled to see his sense of International Policies for his country and the number of assassinations taken place under his regime (which include his critics mostly), and yes THIS MAN continues to live....!! It is like Dawood Ibrahim running India (Wouldn't it be a bloody nightmare!). Now when his own people are trying to overthrow him, instead of bowing out after 42 years of insane policy-making....He is killing them. Would you believe his audacity?! Am I the only one whose blood boils after reading this?Am I the only one who would like Batman to beat this man to pulp and then dump him in a garbage can? I don't think so.....
A woman laying in a vegetative state for the past 38 years in a hospital is one of the most agonizing headlines I've read recently. Aruna Shanbagh, bed-ridden due to a sexual assault in 1973, still lays in that same bed in a state of coma. The nurses take care of her, as she has no relatives doing it. A petition to grant Euthanasia to her filed by a writer Pinki Virani (who put the whole Aruna-story in print) by stopping food and fluid supply has been doing the rounds. The Supreme Court has been strangely spineless and mute on the whole issue. Denying several similar petitions, and what follows is a blaring debate about her “right to die”. While the victim still continues to suffer, the person convicted has already spent more than 25 years in the free world, that is after serving his 7-year sentence in Jail.....
A social activist by the name of Binayak Sen, has been jailed for the past 3 months on the charges of “conspiracy and treason against the State”. And why was he jailed by the government? Because he raised his Voice for the poor against government policies. This caused 'inconvenience' to the state government which resulted into such a disaster-verdict.
For all those who do not know the meaning of the slang “Bullshit”, please equate it with this verdict.
The House arrest of Iraninan Film-maker Jafar Panahi is just another revolutionary oppressed by the Islamist-Theocrats. While he has been banned from making films for the next 20 years because of his 'liberal-ideas' in the Islamic-World. He is also not allowed to give interviews, not allowed to leave the country. If this is not Human-Rights violation, then what is? Absolute nonsense, I have to say.
The UPA-hoopla does not seem to end even in the new year. After A Raja was accused in the 2G scam . A loss of an estimated 1.76 lakh-crores (176 followed by ten zeroes, phew!). The CBI did what it does best....that is being shamelessly shameless. And just when the Anti-UPA protests were dying down after Raja's arrest (Sushma Swaraj chose to take a nap from Twitter and Arun Jaitley made good use of the free time by literally napping in the Parliament) a new controversy came up – The appointment of CVC P J Thomas. P J Thomas (Yeah...you can afford a grin at those first two letters for a name) was recently forced to call it quits after the Supreme Court questioned a charge-sheet against him over the import of some over-priced Palm Oil for the Kerala State govt. He has allegedly caused the govt a loss of couple of crores (approximately). The UPA has seriously taken an image-beating in the past 12 months (CWG, 2G and now Thomas-ji!). The PM takes responsibility makes an apology, and the BJP as it usually does is screaming on the top of their voices along with the likes of Rajdeep Sardesai and Arnab Goswami about how incompetent the UPA Govt is.
These are only a handful of the various issues, which are a part of the current-affairs, and which we as literate citizens should know about. So, when you spend today's afternoon, watching the Indians thrashing (probably) the Irish, it wouldn't hurt to give these issues a minute, before you (comeback to your 'normal' self and) cry foul about how Yusuf Pathan shouldn't have dropped that catch.
Just for the record, it took me more than 10 minutes to write this........
