Men In (Black and) blue.
Today many Indians are shattered, angered, frustrated, disgusted, bemused, and confused. The country is trying hard to cope up with a tragedy which has severely affected most Indians, both physically as well as psychologically. People of India have successfully endured natural disasters like earthquakes, floods, droughts and tsunamis. They did not succumb to the Kargil war, Gujarat riots and the Bombay blasts. But this tragedy is awesome, its colossal. It has reduced the ‘Shining- Feel Good Indian’ to a ‘Common Man’. It has affected the ‘Global Indian’ in such a local way that the entire nation is in mourning. How could India be ousted of the Cricket World Cup so early? – This is the burning question the Nation is facing today. Every person has his/her own opinion on this critical question that will define the destiny of India in the 21st century. Unlike other times when the parliament was stalled and members rushed to the well of the house to discuss this kind of important issues, this time the politicians in mourning have extended their ‘two- minutes – silence’ to hours, days and weeks. Every news channel has exhumed great cricketing souls of the past to find an answer to this present tragedy. Some of them are playing a longer innings in these news channels than they played on the field during their entire career. Their verbal catharsis from a constipated cranium and their thoughts with guzzling flatuance has put a lot of chronic insomniacs in deep slumbers. These souls are adept in emotionally defending their stands and are able to blame almost anything for India ouster. The religious minded say that the men in blue experimented hard but failed to come to terms with the hard regimen of monastic life of ‘Chap(p)el.’ The naturists attribute the cause to the extinction of the ‘Bengal Tiger.’ The engineers say that the ‘Wall’ was weak and so the entire team had fallen alongwith. The masters say the ‘Little Master’ got a bit too belittled. The baldies blame the longhaired. The oldies blame the youngsters. The NRI’s blamed it on the Al Qaeda. The home ministry blamed it on the ISI. The batsman blamed the bowlers. The bowlers blamed the batsman. Everyone blamed the fielders. I blamed it on Gabbu for not wearing his lucky shorts. Gabbu blamed it on Dabbu for not chewing his nails. But whatever it was- Huh Hah India just got reduced to Ha Ha India.
Overnight the icons became effigies, the blue billion entertained their angered souls by beating posters black and blue. The coach said he was not answerable, the captain said he was out of luck and the higher officials said that they had no ‘Pawar’ to take responsibility. On the flip side of all this is the fact that the country is getting back to work. The government has postponed indefinitely the scheme to provide folding beds in all government offices. Bosses are happy to see their staff arrive only an hour late (as usual). The teachers are happy that the students are not bunking their morning classes. The finance minister just confirmed that the inflation will be low due to cut in TV advertisements and therefore tax cesspools will be bigger in the next budget. However, one Mandira Bedi is totally devastated. Few now listen to the verbal turbulence in her ‘threadbare’ discussions. SET MAX is shortly coming up with an IPO to cover the losses incurred. BCCI today proposed to set up a commission of enquiry to find the causes of India’s early exit an d suggest remedies for World Cup 2011. The Commission will be headed by a retired Chief Justice of India and is likely to submit its report by December 2010.
Overnight the icons became effigies, the blue billion entertained their angered souls by beating posters black and blue. The coach said he was not answerable, the captain said he was out of luck and the higher officials said that they had no ‘Pawar’ to take responsibility. On the flip side of all this is the fact that the country is getting back to work. The government has postponed indefinitely the scheme to provide folding beds in all government offices. Bosses are happy to see their staff arrive only an hour late (as usual). The teachers are happy that the students are not bunking their morning classes. The finance minister just confirmed that the inflation will be low due to cut in TV advertisements and therefore tax cesspools will be bigger in the next budget. However, one Mandira Bedi is totally devastated. Few now listen to the verbal turbulence in her ‘threadbare’ discussions. SET MAX is shortly coming up with an IPO to cover the losses incurred. BCCI today proposed to set up a commission of enquiry to find the causes of India’s early exit an d suggest remedies for World Cup 2011. The Commission will be headed by a retired Chief Justice of India and is likely to submit its report by December 2010.
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