Soccer tales

Had to admire the great effort by Arsenal to keep a final full of excitement down till the end with their ten men facing the daunting task of keeping Barca off their net till 76th minute. Fourteen minutes away from glory, they conceded and down went all the 76minute effort. But the tremendous mettle and courage shown by the brave playes needs immense admiration.... hats off.... especially when the refree didn't really want the team to win.....

For all the soccer following readers... hope you watched the game.. and developed some good respect for Arsenal FC and certianly much more respect for football, with the fine quality of football put up by both the teams.... I just hope THierry Henry stays with Arsenal....

Looking forward to the world cup now....

Ahh.. they dint win

For once I was anxiously looking out for the election results in Chennai. In particular 8 constituencies where candiates from Loak Paritran were contesting. They did look quite resonable in their philosophy of transparency in the government and couple of other things, and recieved quite a bit of support from the educated community of Chennai, in particular the IT ppl. Grrhh... but they lost in all 8 constituencies and we got a 83 year old out there taking the oath.

Getting to that, I always find it funny the way the government changes in TN. It so very well reflects the inadeptness and inefficiency of every party. Over last couple of years there has alaways been AIDMK and DMK alternating in the rule. Possibly, since every time a party wins, their mismanagement and whacky governance, takes them down the next time. Common sense should really make people to come out of their mental block and think of alternatives. But, completely realize the difficulty and practical infeasibility of all that I blurted above.... but I believe I can make a wish... my birthday wish ....

Back in the park

The story is about a small place called, Surat Pur , way too rustic a village, deep among the cedars and birches of the Himalayas. The naive, unsophisticated, villagers were the heart and soul of the story. Time and again when the situation demanded they would react to it by pulling off a ingenious idea, quite orthogonal to even the wierdest of the dreams of an average thinking adult in cities. But the pulp of the story revolved around the kids of the village and the world when viewed from their eyes. The inquisitive nature of the kids and their tremendous (il)logical explanations was what people loved about it. It just looked as if people always wanted to experience their childhood and correlate themselves to the unweildy. Noone was spared from the kids' desire to learn and explore, strating from celebrities, democracy, people as educated as Dr.Singh to the icons like Mr.Yadav. Every sport was being taught to them in a new fashion and a complete different satirical manner. Like fixing matches was taught as a rule to the kids at their school and non-taxing political braingames were imbibed into them as the regular norms of winning games. The innocent kids were well complemented in their effort to learn by their extremely ignorant parents.

Haroon and Serus the cofounders of multi-billion dollar venture Arouse Inc. in their attempt to diversify tried to capture the whole village in the form of a naive cartoon series. And, there, was the begining of Doordarshan's biggest ever animated series Surat Pur.