Scraps Stuffs - Random musings from apun ka desh

Good riddance.

The last thing that the BCCI needs is an incompetent, politicking, conniving bastard like Dalmia at the helm (or worse pulling strings from the back without any accountability). The drama surrounding the Chappell-Ganguly affair where Chappell accused Ganguly (rightly, I feel) of being unfit for the job of captaining the Indian cricket team and the totally incompetent inquiry that followed very clearly demonstrated what was so wrong with Indian cricket - total lack of accountability and transparence in the BCCI, in terms of the decisions they make, in terms of the players they select and in terms of their governance of the game in India.

Prem Panikar writes on what Pawar should do next, now that he has won the elections. The need of the hour is transparency and accountability in the BCCI. Pawar should provide that or else it will be more of the same, except that this time the NCP will be flush in money.

for booing Rahul Dravid and his men when they played at Eden Gardens. Rahul is more man than a Ganguly can ever be, and heckling Rahul just because Ganguly cannot make it to the ODI team with his current form is just plain childish. I guess nothing different can be expected from the boorish, unruly mob there. Too many past incidents come to mind.

Ganguly is back in the Indian test side. Undeservedly, I might add. He should have got the boot from the test side and asked to get plenty of runs before asking to be considered for the test side. He's in poor form and his attitude, of late, has been awful.

For the past so many days, Ganguly has been virtually begging to be let back into the team. Look at my past record, he kept whining. Frankly I expected better from someone so arrogant and proud of his cricket. To be reduced to such a state just shows poor class.

In other news, Kapil Dev has slammed Kolkattans for suggesting that they will boycott the Friday one-dayer because Ganguly is not in the ODI team. He rightly suggests that fans should look at what is best for the team and not what is best for a fellow Bong. But this is par for the course in Karnataka too, the same whining if Anil Kumble or Dravid are dropped or if Srinath was not playing. This reorganization of states on a linguistic basis was a really bad idea.

Laloo ki laltein to bujh gayi, ab Dharam ke haath ka kuch karna padega.

Today is a good day. The Bihari electorate kicked out Laloo due to his complete non-performance in the fifteen years he ruled the state. Good riddance.

I'm doubly kicked that the BJP got one more seat than Laloo's RJD (if the Rediff is believed - they have been wrong before).

Laloo, hai, hai! Rabri, phirse rotiyan banao! :-P

Take me down to Jannat City
Where the beards are long and the goats are pretty
Oh, won't you please take me home!

Hill-fucking-arious :-D

Its sad that companies selling alcohol have to resort to surrogate advertising in order to market their products. Sometimes its funny, for e.g., UB advertises their pint sized UB Export beer using their UB soda and stating that since this "soda" is available for about the same prize as a bottle of cool drink, why would anyone want to drink a cool drink when they could have the "soda" instead? Its pretty obvious which product this ad is pushing.

One more example is the ad for Fling. Fling CDs and music casettes that is, not for the identically labeled vodka. Again its pretty obvious what the ad is for. Sometimes I wonder, if these surrogates are really available in the market. Maybe the companies make small amounts of these products to be able to state that they really are advertising them instead of the surrogates.

India is really a nanny state, where the authorities need to tell everyone what's good for them and what's not. Heck, we are all children who can't be trusted with alcohol, among other things.

At any rate, it makes for interesting and sometimes wickedly funny advertising.

Bagpiper club soda, anyone?

Considering the pathetic roads in Bangalore, here's a web-site that urges Bangaloreans to report potholes wherever they see them - Bangalore Pot Hole

Good show by the men in blue, we won with matches to spare! Don't remember when that last happened. Nice finish, no panic. Dhoni has a cool head on his massive shoulders. Good contribution by Raina, very nice batting.

Wonder if Ganguly can get back into the side now.