Indian hockey vs Indian cricket

With the IPL being omnipotent and omnipresent in the Indian sports scene, there are always these comments regarding bias towards Cricket in India. Other sports like Hockey are not given their due attention by media and sponsors. Here I would say, as far as media is concerned, they would cover what people like to read. Same is the case of the sponsors. Sponsor won't do any charity, they want to earn money. At most, what they they can go for is no profit no loss. How will they earn money? They will earn money if more people are interested in the game. People watch game primarily for two reasons.
A- If the sport itself has an attraction.
B- If the players perform.
For e.g. a game like Football is globally popular. It's charm is tremendous.Most of the Indians are aware of the fact that man utd are the premier league champions ,they are aware that barca won the spanish premier league and inter won the serie a!! At the same time, not many know that recently India was knocked out of the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup by China failing to qualify for the semifinals! We have to accept that the Hockey itself is not as appealing as Football or Cricket .

Now, the performance part. If we remember, we will realize that advent of Cricket and Hockey took place in India roughly at same time i.e. pre -independence. We were world champions in Hockey while minnows in Cricket. Old timers still swear by Dhyan Chand, K D Singh, Capt. Roop Singh. People watched Hockey matches with more relish than Cricket . Cricket was considered elite's game while Hockey was commoner's. Unfortunately, India's Hockey performance started dipping since seventies, while with advent of exceptional talent like Gavaskar, Kapil and Tendulkar, India started performing well in Cricket. It won a World Cup, World Series,World T20 and successfully hosted a couple of World Cups. Sports loyalties were switched, once and for all. Cricket was no more a royal game. Also, Cricket evolved itself with One Days and Day Nighters. Hockey hardly moved an inch. People like players performing, winning matches and tournaments.This trend is there in every country. With standard of their Cricket declining, Brian Lara not withstanding - Football,Basketball and Baseball are now more popular in West Indies.Rugby is still number # 1 sport in NewZeaLand as it is more flamboyant than Cricket plus their performance is much better in Rugby.So unless and until, sporting authorities do not bring innovation in games and players do not motivate themselves to perform, people cannot be forced to watch sport like Hockey . After all, after days hard work, people want fun instead of frustration.

Sorry...No topic to write on!

I used to read books by sum of the famous management gurus a year back.But now I enjoy reading books once in a while, strictly fiction, though of any genre. But I am not exactly someone whom you would refer to as a “voracious reader”. However fervently I would like to hide it, only a few forms of literature that have a louder voice and command than their many fellow literary works, manage to pave their way into my bookshelf. In other words, I read popular fiction only, or books that, if not read, would invariably lead to your labeling as an illiterate in the ‘literary circles’ of society, which, it seems, includes everyone who can pee over an inch range. I will call myself “barely literate”. I shun anything that has a worldly reference, or non-fiction, preferring to dwell in the more enticing world of man’s boundless imaginations. Well, from all that I have said till now, it is plainly evident that I lack the all-essential ‘thirst’ for knowledge that seems to be an indispensible tag of honorable existence stamped on every forehead. And I admit it, knowledge be damned, I read for the thrill of the moment.

i know this has no connection to the topic iam writing on.so be it!

captian boredom-too lazy to live!

they say a 'life of purpose' is something we all should aim for. most of the people do have a 'life of purpose'. i too had one. but sometimes things get too humdrum that it makes ur life so damn frustrated. like i am. at such late hours, i dont have anything else to do but to vent this frustration out by troubling my tired fingers. y am i doing it ? i dont wanna write, but still i am. coz i dont have anything to do, or rather i dont wanna do anything else.how wud u feel if u get up from bed having nothing in mind but to wait for the day to get over ? (probably there r helluva of ppl who feel so!!)but how many goto bed with nothing but wait for the sun to start shining ?and how many feel the both ?i wake up doing nothing, with nothing great to do the entire day.. i spend my wasteful day, go to bed having nothing special to do! and yet again i wake up the next morning, with the same boredom. seems i have lost the zeal to be alive, not because i have complaints against my life.. no not at all.. but may be because i dont have anything to do. and i dont wanna do whatever i have to do. perhaps a common problem wid most of the mankind. and in sucha frame of mind, i think what will i gain if i live another day ? that doesnt mean i dont wanna live, but simply that i feel too lazy to live!
I am bored of writing this crap. Good bye!

the 'slumdog' issue

For the past few days I had been looking for a topic to write on. However I just couldnt find anything of my taste. While in the midst of this futile search, the simple truth hit me - I was driving myself too hard, taking it too seriously.i thought "just keep it simple and be at your spontaneous best".and then ,recently i saw the trailer of slumdog millionaire on pix and bang!thoughts started flowing!! so i chose a rather faded topic to start on with and then ill move on to the current ones!
I have heard criticisms and counter criticisms about ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ from the film critics , moviestars,common people , friends etc! It’s literally been a food fight of sorts!!! While some prefer to go out in the open with their opinions others claim to merely pass on the ‘opinion of the masses’. But I am not gonna debate upon that.
What I want to point out is that, if the film makers of Bollywood claim their right to ‘creative license’ that they deserve, why aren’t they as ready to let others have a bite out of it too.
Agreed , SM brings to the forefront the slummy side of the city; it exploits the crime and sleaze in the city and indicates it to be the only things that the city has to offer. Agreed , the westerners who have never been to India may be ‘delighted’ to see Mumbai in such plight. But this isn’t any different from the fact that thousands of Indians flock to enjoy the crime infested movies . Why don’t critics (and the common public) oppose them for exploiting the Mumbai’s crime scenario and projecting it as a city full of crime?
The bitter truth is that we accept anything and everything that comes from a fellow Indian, but it hurts our ego if the same comes from a foreigner.
What a shame!!!