Cricket, a nation and a half naked fakir

Everyones out with a post on the world cup and India's amazing triumph. A lot of positives and negatives on the win out there on the net. so here is my two cents ( and maybe more ) on that and a related thing that I thought of.

Witnessing the crazy things that people do when we win ( or lose ), the aggression that people show, out on the streets, in the cricket stands, the 'mob phenomenon' is truly a fearful thing. Its sheer potential to get what it wants, the uncontrolled power that it exudes, feeding on everything and everyone on its path, encompassing all and destroying anything that tries to stop or control it. It makes me wonder, if a cause such as cricket can set a nation ablaze, how much emotion would there have been in the fight for freedom? How many millions would have come forward, daggers drawn, ready to put forth their lives so that the country may breathe free again? If a thousand people in a cricket stand can cause such things as stampedes, how much could millions do? How long would it have taken the guns and cannons notwithstanding, to raze down the British, to wipe them clean off the face of our motherland?

If one man, a single human soul, has turned a whole nation from breathing fires of war and revolt to protest in silence for freedom, whatever may his faults be, he is truly a mahatma. It is not so much as the loss of life that he prevented , but his ways that changed the mind, body and soul of a nation from war to peace. I think we owe it to him if the rest of the world sees us today as a country which despite being one of the most populated, is also one of the most peaceful and tolerant in matters of foreign relations.

It may sound strange to link two things so far apart, but on reflecting, there aren't enough superlatives for me to describe the job that Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi did. I salute you.

Weathered Lives

Photo details same as the one below except for the absence of any alterations to the image.

This photo was clicked completely by accident. I was moving my mobile camera around, looking for something to shoot when I just placed it against the door and this great shot just showed up! :)

Multiple emails revelation

The thing about having multiple email accounts - more time to sit at the computer aimlessly at work :)

Random photo - Commercial Street Bangalore

Where: Commercial Street, Bangalore
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Camera: Dopod 2MP Mobile Camera

getting older

Shit! Im getting older. Enjoy it while it lasts. Hope to write an optimistic post on youth or the lack of it later.