Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Monday, June 22, 2009

INFORMATION OVERLOADED ATTENTION DEFICIENCY

Does being around informative people make us knowledgeable. Ofcourse not.

"Information is not Knowledge"                      
                                                                                          -Albert Einstein


So where is the knowledge we lost in information? Even T. S. Eliot could not find the answer to his very own question.  And left us with this puzzling pithy which is eventually degrading to cliche. 

Human beings during their whole life come across with so many things that at some point of time they become vulnerable to this encumbered information. As usual exceptions are there, but they are never taken into consideration, otherwise they would not have been called as exceptions. 

Coming back to the cliche thing, it feels gawky to see some people still unsatisfied with their appetite for overloading information which will gradually result into nothing.

We are facing the greatest pandemic of the century- H1N1 flu ( Swine flu) but our health ministry seems unperturbed with it. Or it may be because they are running out of their little reserved mind. Comments like "Don't Panick", "Avoid Crowd" are well taken but so far suggesting people to wear mask not to protect themselves but others somwhere tells us that they are so badly moved with sudden inflow of cases that they even forgot the two way affect of mask. 

Lets go back to World Population Day. It was the day which showed definitive inarticulateness of our Hounrable Health Minister. In a Press Meeting he urged to the people of India to keep themselves busy with watching Television so as to achieve birth control. And he even gave a logic to this. Well I think he must be eating LAYS that time otherwise Dilogical idea seems to be pouring in from either Mahi or Saif. Actually at this level we Indian can't expect better than this from our Ministers.

In a recent incident when SRK became the victim of frisking by US Homeland Security, we in India let our emotional mind flow so fluidly that we even forgot security is what we are lacking and US is having. Now come our other Minister, Mrs I&B Ministry, who wants to take revenge with same short of frisking with Americans in India. I am glad and egarly waiting for the moment of full screening at our Airports. Atleast this would not give safe passage to some culprits.

Now if we look into all these not so trifling matters. We would find a common link between them. The link of deficiency of much required attention. And this is because, we all are surmounted with loads of trifling things that we forget or pretend to forget the most important matter in between. 

We care about no. of people dying of swine flu everyday but never bother to wear that non-placebo N95. We care about watching Television but never think about India's degradability into most populous Nation. We care about what happened to SRK, even though he was publicizing his upcoming movie "My Name is Khan", but never think about security holes in India.

So it might be very thoughtful of you to ponder about all these, but all we need is serious action. A thoughtful action which would help to pass on the knowledge without leaky channel.

Regards

Monday, June 15, 2009

Order of Star of India Stuck in Monetizing


Though the phrase may be obscure in its own. But it has a great relevance when we talk about BCCI. The phrase can be used as an abstract definition to our renowned, money making business organization registered under Tamil Nadu Societies Registration Act. Since we are talking about BCCI, eventhough it is registered but it is a Private Club Consortium which has an exception of showing balance sheet as any other private club do. And so do it sister State Clubs. I hope I reasonably use the term for the Cricketing club.



What surprise me more is its tightly coupled political relations. Though its true that in India Politics is in everything. They love,they hate, they fight and they survive only beacuse of politics. And politics is governed by money. Making money is not bad but what is bad is deviating from priority during the process of monetizing.
BCCI only knows how to cash in with the tournaments around the world during the whole season and if they feel that they would face some problem with future series they manipulate other playing Nations to get involved in a replacement series utilizing its money power over the corrupt members of the replaced Nation. They try to fill the gap but who get the money. Again BCCI.
BCCI having being doing this for so many year got the attention of another bounty hunter our own Laal Lalit. He then devised the way to make more money and got full time recognition
under the safe banner of BCCI. Well his game goes this way....when Team India don't have any upcoming series, engage them in IPL and make the most out of it. And again if during the whole year if you find any gap arrange 4-5 matches under IPL and again make out of it.
Well this money making theory might look somewhat difficult to you but that is how it goes.


$  I hope you can easily recognize two most out of place personality in the above pic. Yes you are right these are the two MINT industry in Indian Cricket. 


Once a champion always a champion, hardly suites here. 
I hope you remember the two iconic guys of our Indian Team who got GOI's recommendation for the covetous Padma Shri could not make to the Rashtapati Bhavan as they were busy in milking money.


$ Yes these are those guys.

The most obvious reason of Team India's defeat after defeat might be their mental and physical fatigue. But the core issue would remain unresolved if BCCI or Indian Players themselves don't take some concrete steps now. Otherwise SET MAX or STAR CRICKET would have to look for some other means for making the same money.

Regards,
Ankit