Salute to Sachin

“He has carried our nation on his shoulders for 22 years and we are proud that we got a chance to carry him on our shoulders “. We all heard the junior in the Indian team, Virat Kholi, talking about Sachin to visual media immediately after the glorious World Cup 2011 final. What makes this man, Sachin, so special and adorable? Well, the answer is…everything about him. He is a perfect role model if you ever were looking for one. He has his head firmly on his shoulders in spite of all his towering achievements. After twenty long years in the game, he still continues to live in a bubble, unflappable and unaffected by controversies and just lets his bat do the talking. Sometimes this makes you wonder – how is this possible? All of us as individuals need to look at the lives that such individuals lead. Sachin’s life has been a primary model of success and how to achieve that success by moving ahead on the right path and inculcating the right values in ourselves. He is passionate about his game, enjoying every moment of his profession. His dedication, hard work and sincerity towards his game make him to deliver success consistently and, therefore, he is not only successful in his career but he is at top in his social life and family life - yet down to earth. He respects his family, game, country and his fans. He is honest and loyal to cricket, country, his fans and to his own family. A young prodigy, he began playing cricket at the age of two with his grandma in the family's backyard, using a broomstick for a bat. As he grew, he began playing street cricket with the neighbourhood children. Tendulkar began playing cricket as a toddler and at age of sixteen was selected to play for India's national team. He is a youth icon in our country, where he lives modestly even though his income from endorsements etc., have made him one of the world's wealthiest cricket players. Sachin Tendulkar is one person capable of bringing this whole country to a standstill. When he plays, roads are empty, shops are shut and everyone is in front of a television set. When Sachin is batting against Pakistan, the Indian television audience exceeds the population of Europe! He handles fame and adulation with such ease and still firmly keeps his foot planted to the ground. Such is the greatness of the man. The pressure he has had to handle over the years is unimaginable! He has had to carry the hopes of his entire country on his shoulders for two full decades and he continues to do so. For a person, to whom anything less than a century is considered an ordinary score, the expectations are ridiculously unrealistic. Still, he does not disappoint on most occasions. And the last word..I am not a cricket fan and rather a decrier for the over importance it receives over other games such as hockey and football. I like only the last five minutes of the one day match and more happier if it is the shorter version, 20-20.But I have to confess that I am a fervent fan of this master human - Sachin. This blog is to salute this great human being – SACHIN RAMESH TENDULKAR.

My New Year thoughts

New Year wishes from Mampra to all
Looking forward for a better year ahead.....better than all the years passed in our life
I wish you
1.An year of :-
· living together...
· sharing together with equity...
· patting the deserved instantly....
· trusting each other and being trustworthy
· supporting each other without expecting undue return
· helping each other in bringing up children and their formation
· doing exercises regularly and leading a reasonably healthy life
· respecting each other on their strength and helping to tide over their weakness…..sincerely
2.Without:-
· jealousy
· the fear of telling the truth when needed
· the fear of promoting others in public
· the fear of arguing for deserving others who promoted us
· ditching each other even with a whisper.....
· celebrating failures and set backs of others .....
· telling a lie or twisting the truth among us to win an argument.
· running away from the responsibility of correcting each other for the fear of being badged as a bad guy around
· having a stiff &lost feeling in genuinely congratulating others for their achievements
· hesitation in sharing the failure stories also along with success ones for the benefit of others.
· getting tired of genuinely involving to support people who have some areas
of improvement

Hope you agree with my new year thoughts.
I am writing this to ignite & reinforce this thoughts in me first and then to others.....
Once again wishing you a bright year ahead with a WIN-WIN relationship.
warm regards
Mampra

Where is “Adarsh’ for the Raja of corruption

I am wondering why the Indian Government should carry the minister in charge of corruption rrrr…I mean telecommunication? Even keeping him is a threat to DMK as the elections are around in TN.Is this Raja blackmailing the UPA and the DMK leaders.Are this people scared of this Raja of corruption? Is he a scapegoat or benami of somebody else more powerful?We tax paying citizens has the right to know.
Here comes the savior of our environment the intellectual Jayaram Ramesh.He was talking against the traditional graduation gown as he has completed all the graduation ceremonies.Now he is talking against SUVs as if he has just received his enlightenment.Being the minister belongs to Gandhiji’s party,he has no other option but to travel in our own Amby or Esteem and what is wrong in talking against SUVs and subsidy misuse,if he can get some applause from the so called think tanks.He seems to be not aware of the subsidy misuse by the affluent in the case of cooking gas.
Now the latest .. he want to demolish the Adarsh apartment.He came to know about this thirty plus floor apartment just yesterday and he want to shine in front of us demolishing it mercilessly following the footsteps of Kerala CM Mr.Achthanandan.Why this people enjoy demolitions rather than creating?.
Why can’t he acquire this and distribute it to the deserving Jawans and their family?
We have just seen the opposition shouting for resignation of Raja and Maharashtra CM,while they keep quiet about Karnataka and its horse trading.Contadiction again.
I feel sympathy for our honest Prime Minister for running the show with ministers like Raja & Jayaram
We ,the tax paying public have learned to live with this contradictions and we stopped taking the politicians utterances in its face value .Or in other words,we are helpless.

China-my next destination

I am visiting China again….Lat time,it was aimed at knowing the country for the first time and to participate in some exhibitions and trade shows which matters for my business….This time its for studying this emerging economy in their best University there and to hear from the horses mouth.
During my last visit, Iwas amazed by the diverse culture of this country.I travelled and stayed in Beijing, Weifang,Shanghai,Schenzhen , Guangzhou and of course,HongKong.The criss cross plane Journey was long and I was using every opportunity of travel to talk to people and to understand the country and its culture.
What is a culture? Is it characterized by art or literature? Does it include actions, feelings, or thoughts? Is it ideas, objectives, or ways? What about beliefs or values, or customs or tradition?According to me,culture is all of these. In everyday conversation, the word culture might refer to such fields as literature, art, or music; At the same time it is something more complex, a way of life.
A culture defines and sets something apart from everything else. It makes something unique and therefore meaningful, not only to itself but also to the diversity of the world.
For thousands of years, the Culture of China has attracted and moved many people from all over the world, being so unique and one-of-a-kind as well as elegant and inspiring. The Chinese Culture, a culture that has evolved for thousands and thousands of years, contains rare beauty and enchantment with history. It has drawn so much interest that it is integrating with other cultures. With such a long history and old-living civilization, the Culture of China offers much more than anything or anyone could possible receive. The Chinese Culture has shown that China has become what it is capable of becoming.
But, I found ,in my last experiment with China,that Shanghai and Hong Kong is totally stand out from the mainstream in culture and it is more of westernised.While you travel in underground metros in these places,you cannot see the passengers speaking each other and playing games in their electronic gadgets instead.Can we call it as a casuality of cultural invasion from west? May be.I am not sure.
I will be writing more on this after my second visit…..see you again
Mathew Mampra mampra@yahoo.com