Cricket T20: Team India Back Where It Belongs, Beat England In Pune Match!

Riding on a vintage knock by the player of the match Yuvraj Singh (38 off 21 balls) and useful contributions by Raina and Dhoni India registered a comfortable 5 wicket win over England in the first cricket Twenty20 match in Pune tonight. Captain Dhoni won the toss and elected to field maybe due to dew factor. England looked to be in position for a big total, but thanks to some good bowling by Dinda and Yuvraj folded up for a modest 157/6 in allotted 20 overs. Team India never had any serious problems chasing it down with more than two overs to spare. India lead the two-match Series 1-0. The Scorecard:

Take a look at the England T20 cricket team—no Test team there at all except for one or two players with captain Cook going back home after a rewarding Series win. Whereas, it is almost the same Test team for India. And MS Dhoni—he captains India or Indian clubs in all possible formats of the game. Poor him! As we all know he cannot be changed or replaced, because he continues to be the top selling brand. His oft repeated complaints of ‘too much cricket’ get invariably drowned in ‘too much money or stakes’. This is the reality of Indian cricket—the money spinning short formats and the IPL have always been founded on the cricket superstars of India as irreversible brands. Any cricket businessman or investor would hardly do business in cricket sans the icons and the super brands. With Pakistan playing a short format cricket Series in India this Christmas now is definitely not the moment for any change. 

And, behold the contrasts this great country offers unfailingly. Last two days the whole nation had been hurt, anguished and angry over the brutal gangrape in Delhi. Tonight you see thousands of crazy crowds cheering and celebrating an Indian cricket victory. The 23 year old victim in Delhi is still critical but stable. She is conscious but cannot speak yet and was communicating through writing—asking her mother if her torturing demons had been caught or not. Then you behold fireworks lighting up the Pune night sky. The Indian news channels busy last two days in full blast social campaigns for the rape victim have today told you only about the results of the elections in two Indian States. Both of the outcomes, particularly for the state of Gujarat, had been more or less entirely anticipated. Everybody expected Narendra Modi to achieve a hat-trick win as Chief Minister in Gujarat and as per rotation rules everybody expected Congress to come back victorious in Himachal Pradesh. But still the hype of hypes (poll of polls?) got no less intense. Well, this is the India we all know and we always live happily ever after.

Delhi Gangrape: Spontaneous Protests All Over India!

The ‘human’ beings of India have woken up to the brutal reality of the society they live in and erupted into angry and anguished protests and demonstrations held all over the country over the brutal gangrape of a 23 year old girl on a moving public bus in New Delhi Sunday night . As the victim continued to be critical the Rape capital of India saw huge outbursts of people—mostly the young generation including women in large numbers—in several localities of the city demanding answers from the government and local authorities in the basic issues of security to women, quick justice and prevention of crimes.  The incensed people in hundreds and thousands held demonstrations before the residence of the Delhi Chief Minister, Delhi police headquarters and in other high security VVIP areas. Police had to resort to water canons to disperse the protestors. As per latest reports protests are still going on across the country.

One contrast came up instantly. The kind of security provided to VIPs and VVIPs became very clear as their forces tried to keep them secure from the common people. There has always been a shortage of police and security personnel across India and a huge chunk of the forces available are used up for VIP security. So, how much security is actually available for the mothers, daughters, sisters and wives of the common people? One news channel raised a pertinent question as to would all the big political leaders who shook up Parliament yesterday debating death penalty to the rapists care to release a percentage of their private security forces for the common people? That would make more policemen available per thousand of common people.

All across disturbed ‘human’ beings demanded death for all rapists and eve teasers. As far as the debate on ‘capital punishment’ is concerned there is instant agreement but for one crucial difference. The punishment must be fast tracked and instant if possible, and should not be left to rot for years and years in the due process of the courts, appeals and mercy petitions. And that no single rapist or eve teaser must escape from the law and roam free.

The big question is whether of this mass upsurge against criminals will be able to keep the momentum going for a long time to force the governments bring in stringent laws, creation of a secure environment for women and prevention of increasing crimes against women. We witnessed similar a mass outrage against corruption last year under Anna Hazare, but slowly it petered out as politics grew within. Hopefully, the momentum this time would keep going because this malady of the subhuman entities invading our society runs deeper and affects or threaten to affect the families and kin of both the corrupt and non-corrupt classes. 

Keep to the basics this time. Do not entertain sex discrimination issues, do not allow gender bias to come in and do not indulge in diabolical egoism. Untie on mutual love and trust, and stay united, to defeat the demons and the fiends trying to eat up our society. The subhuman fiendish progression must be stopped at all costs. Before it is too late!

India Against Women: The Subhuman Fiendish Progression!

 The deadly creatures prowl in hordes, always. In the street corners, in hotel or pub fronts, in the residential society entrances, in shops or restaurants outside school or college campuses, in movie theater junctions—to waylay and attack their victims. The deadlier creatures prowl in moving bikes, auto-rickshaws, cars, cabs, and even in public buses. Anytime, anywhere, everywhere. But their most favorite hours are always dark.

If we call our country India Against Women then New Delhi is fittingly the Rape capital. The marauders of humanity are much more sinister than the corrupt. The corrupt can only rob you of your money or belongings or properties, but these creatures loot your honour, loot your body and loot your soul. Like the political bigots, like the devilishly ambitious bosses, like the blood sucking parasites—all feeding constantly on the capital’s evergreen pastures, the creatures here too are more powerful, mostly protected and subhuman. They are capable of even making their feudal counterparts look aghast at what they themselves could not dream of accomplishing in their glorious medieval past.

India is also a country malevolently and malignantly male…male… and male. Rules here have always been made for the males. Women are lawfully or unlawfully at their perfect mercy within the four walls, outside and anywhere. Education has made the males richer and wiser, but their ‘male’ness remains like a historical or traditional truth. They take pride in their oppression, domination and torture of their females. The diabolically extreme ones among them become the subhuman fiends, and this class is growing ominously and growing out of control.

The fiendish creatures even took over a public bus the other in the Rape capital and began prowling the city stopping frequently for passengers or victims. One 23 year old paramedic girl student watching a movie with her boyfriend came out together of the theater just after 9 pm and waited at the bus stop. They boarded the fiendish bus unsuspectingly and what happened in the hour-long ride through the city is even beyond the imaginable levels of cruelty, depravity and brutality. The girl and the boy were thrown out after the subhuman fiends finished their job.

A national outrage was created just like in the case of Keenan and Reuben who got killed in Mumbai by a pack of hyenas for protesting eve teasing, just like in the case of the recent 19 year old Mumbai boy, the sole bread earner of his family, who was stabbed to death just outside the gate of his residential society by teenaged monsters for protesting against their lewd comments thrown at his neighborhood girl. The political class, some of whom never let go their male ego making irresponsible jabs at women, created in a din in Parliament today. The opposition leader demanded capital punishment for rapists. For the moment the leaders seemed to have forgotten their differences and politicking for perhaps righteously felt indignation. But what next?

The problem is those with some humanity still left in them are mortally scared of the subhuman fiends and prefer always to look on, because the lone brave one always gets wounded or killed. The real need of the hour is to get united—males and females together—and confront the demons. These creatures are basically cowards, because they prowl in hordes and attack the weaker victims. The ‘human’ beings must understand this and act accordingly. 

 What is needed to be delivered is instant justice. Stay united and make preparations in unison with the local authorities. And, hit the fiends where it pains the most and maim the demons permanently. The women of India must awaken, get ready and fight for their honour.