The first final, sachin's inning, budget and nothing much..

A perfect 10/10 innings this was. This is as good a hundred you would get when chasing 240. Paced to perfection.. 46 singles.. 2 upper cuts to third man and you have Sachin that we all loved to love. If he repeats this again, I have no doubt we are coming back 2-0. But it was a team effort to put it that way. Harbhajan making his balls talk against Heyden's mouth, Pravin kumar's initial spell, good fielding, and yeah don't forget Rohit's batting. Australia would be more worried about the way India won then the loss itself.

Budget... well i am not a very financial times man but what i get of it is i would be saving some 40K on taxes next years, some really troubled famers are finally getting some help and the biggest thing is the education allocation has increased. This is the key, if we have to be anywhere near the Finalands, the UKs, the Japans or even Chinas of this world we have to get our literacy, the infrastructure and our basic amenities right. I don't give a damn where our Sensex is going or what out growth forecast is. If in some corner of India people don't have clean water to drink, a doctor nearby and schools for their kids... we are not good enough. Money in the hands of few is no use. I would have rather forgo’ed that 40K if it would have meant better roads to drive on or lesser electricity cut. Take that 40Ks back and please do build those power plants that we desperately need. So overall i think though populist, an "aam aadmi budget" is what we need for another few years. But the hope is that this money would indeed reach those farmers who are committing suicide and not the ones who are already having tractors and harvesters for themselves.

Let’s have bread for everybody yaar...

On the personal side Shrini cut his finger in the Mixer. He still can't remember how he did that, he says he was trying to adjust Pudina leaves in the running mixer. 7 stitches on his right hand and i am still having a headache on this. I did this to myself about 15 years back but i was less stupid trying to see why the blades were not running when my brother actually switched on the mixer.

Well i have an explanation... he cut his finger because he doesn't drink beer. Because when i cut my fingers even i didn't drink beer and since i have started drinking beer from last 12-14 years, i have never cut my fingers in my Mixer.

So for all of you who want there fingers intact, cheers... :-)

Umpiring Blunders, Aussie Integrity and Racism

I am not going to take any high moral ground and say we should continue playing the series despite the odds stacked up against us. Sometimes its good to snap.

First and foremost there is no doubt if umpires wouldn't have played their part this game belonged to India. Common look at the number of decisions..
Pointing out at 17 went out to score 51 (He talked about integrity right?)
Symonds stood his ground at 30 and went on to score 168
Symonds again not out when stumped. The umpires simply refused to refer stumping to third umpire.
Hussey was out on i think somewhere in 20s and went out to score 145.
Dravid was haded a shocker (I though cats not monkey has 9 lives)
Pointing and Clark duo cheated and got Ganguli out. And the umpire believed them.

And yes please remember the Melbourn test also. That test was not clean of Aussie misdeeds and umpiring errors too.

Common guys how many more could we have endured and still won. Shame on Aussies.. if anything racist that can alleged on them is that they are a race of cheaters. I mean look at their grandfathers who came and for what they came. So blood still runs true. and then they talk about integrity.

Racism: Do you know why Symonds is monkey.. because of his antics.. Not because for what he is but because of what he does. He wears a monkey makeup and then people get the obvious message. Common in India we call ourselves monkeys when somebody does that. We didn't knew he had a west-indian father till the papers published it. I really thought he was an aboriginal before.

And now the guys who took Africans as slaves just couple of centuries before are calling us racist. Its their collective guilt that now they want to view everyone who says anything to anyone from African decent a racist.

Indians might be many different bad things, but never racist. We might be castist, we might have burned women for dowry, we might have gone through series of inter religious strife but a differentiation of people on their color was not what we do. we have a monkey god. Most of our gods are depicted black in color and then they accuse us racist. We brand people on their behavior and not on what they are. Like yes branding Aussies as cheats seams justified with what they have done on television for us. (Though this genralization might be wrong but atleast it applies to a team 11 for sure). And i am proud to say Symonds is a monkey and please brand me a racist of you like.

What should be India teams respond now:
Abondon a tour: Why not, you can play 11 against 13. Aussies are playing 3 innings to indians 1 and a half. But this would be too sharp an action i guess.
Bring back the current team and send an under 19 team instead for the rest of the tour. Aussies don't deserve the respect of playing our guys.
Or play the searies but oust the unmpires. We should never play with the Bucknor umpiring. He seems to have something wrong against the avians and particularly Indians i guess.

Common its anyway difficult to beat Australian cricket team and you give us this handicap. Give us a fair chance.