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So happy to receive this certificate from Soham.
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Leaders of the fee world - The Economist

I am not sure how one should react to this, but I am feeling good about it. Read the report from The Economist.

May be we are at the bottom cuz most politicians don't really count on salaried income.

Politicians' salaries

Leaders of the fee world

How much a country's leader is paid compared to GDP per person

Jul 5th 2010

ON MONDAY July 5th Raila Odinga, Kenya's prime minister, rejected the pay increase he was awarded by the country's parliament last week. MPs had granted Mr Odinga a rise to nearly $430,000 a year, while giving themselves a 25% increase to $161,000. This boost would place Mr Odinga among the highest-paid political leaders in the world. More worryingly, his salary would be some 240 times greater than the country's GDP per person (measured on a purchasing-power parity basis). Lee Hsien Loong, the prime minister of Singapore, tops our list of selected leaders' salaries. He is paid more than 40 times the city-state’s GDP per person. At the other end of the scale, Manmohan Singh, the prime minister of India, reaffirms his reputation for saintliness by taking a modest sum from Indian taxpayers.

Revaluing the Indian Football

One of the futile FAQ is “India’s population is over 120 Cr and counting and still we can’t manage to bring out a team of 11 footballers worth sending to FIFA World Cup?” On that logic, considering the size, population and development of US, by now they should be hitting in the ICC World Cup. But it isn’t so. The decisive factor here is the overall interest of the country and much crucial is the boost from the administrators of the game in that particular nation.

Football is possibly world’s most popular game and the current buzz. In India, states where it is chiefly played are West Bengal, Goa, Kerala, Manipur, Mizoram and Sikkim, though the fan following across India knows no boundary. Perhaps, football is played more than cricket on the Indian school grounds and is loved equally to cricket. Moreover, minimalistic need to play this game on the local level is a ball and a pair of sport shoes (which were atypical in earlier days) and a place same as required to play galli cricket.

                  

League football in Kolkata is much older than the formation of FIFA. We have had such excellent players who made us proud at various national and international levels. The yesteryears few gems are Gostha Pal, Subimal Chuni Goswami, Sailen  Manna, P K Bannerjee, Peter Thangaraj, Jarnail Singh Dhillon. And the current whizzes include the impeccable captain Baichung Bhutia, Climax Lawrence, Sunil Chetri, Mahesh Gawli to name a few. Their efforts have given football a new position in the land of cricket. Still we are missing something very crucial due to which at various competitions either we don’t enter or we get disqualified. We win some and loose most.

We have world’s richest cricket board. We have IPL, which have changed the way cricket was played, watched and perceived. We have nurtured cricket so well that we have topped ICC rankings. While for Indian football team, July 2010 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) ranking is men at 21 and women at 13, while FIFA ranks men at 133 and women at 56.

Priyaranjan Dasmunshi has served as President of All India Football Federation (AIFF) from 1988 till 2008. Currently he is the honorary president of AIFF. He was also associated with AFC and FIFA. He is ex-VP of Indian Olympic Association, member of Mohun Bagan AC, East Bengal & Mohammedan Sporting Club. Despite holding such strong portfolio in football, he missed his aim. According to a report published in 2004, Dasmunshi had abandoned the criticisms of the infrastructure and management of football in India. He had assured of his confidence in the mission that would qualify India for World Cup by 2010. Its mid July 2010 and we have already enjoyed some terrific football.

Minister of State for Civil Aviation, Mr. Praful Patel is the current president of AIFF. On the website of AIFF Mr. Patel is mentioned as a sports person. Which sport made him that is a matter of speculation. The question isn’t about his credibility to handle India’s Football, but it would be better if he is left to do what he does best. Let him manage aviation and let him be an industrialist.

Management of football coaching is haphazard here. Players often complain of paucity of qualified trainers and inadequate infrastructure. The call is to bring in best coaches to make future footballers fit for the international standard, to have state of the art infrastructure. To make this transformation possible we need investment of money, expertise and man power. Tycoons like Lakshmi Mittal, Sunil Bharti Mittal and liquor baron Vijay Mallya have already entered into sponsoring and supporting football at foundation level. 

The blend of corporate world and the football administration can bring a football revolution in India. When money is poured in glamour, fame, audience and more money will eventually follow in. The other essential ingredient to add is a pinch of professionalism and a little bit cutback of political touch. At this stage only professionals can give a makeover to Indian football and not the politicians. We need to set up football clubs across the country with high standard amenities, make it easily accessible to any aspiring footballer, supporting the needy with financial aids. We may be having all of these but there is lack execution.

If searched, there are many, many talented but unexposed footballers in the nook and corner of the country. They are still lying in there cocoon, thanks to the crabby administration and pitiable response we provide them.

To sum up, we have done enough cheering up for Brazil, Argentina, Spain and others. Now we want our own team to applaud for in the next FIFA World Cup. Hope, in near future, we will hear our National Anthem on the international field of football. Waka waka. 

It is not safe, anymore.

I’m talking about the cabinet of your two wheeler.

Unlocking it without key have become as easy as locking it.

Two days before, I kept my mobile and purse (with everything possible in it) in the cabinet of Activa, LOCKED it. After returning, lock was broken, and you know the following. (I know some people must be thinking, why there is always something wrong with me and my mobile. Huh!)

If there are too many vehicles in parking and that “someone” special watches u keeping something in it, be assured, it is gone.

My sis told me this story which she recently read in a newspaper.

“”A lady was alone at home. A plumber ranged the doorbell and was supposed to do some repairing.

Her daughter at school needed pickup.

In a dilemma, that plumber might steal her gold jewellery; she took it all with her to school, locked it in the cabinet of her vehicle.

She returned only to find the cabinet lock damaged and you know what. All in the count of few minutes.””

My sis almost consoled me with this story :)

Well, this is just to warn you if in case u are unaware of it.

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BTW, don’t you think cricket should be banned in India for at least two years?

Mainly for three reasons –

1.     To resolve all these, Modimania, BCCI, IPL’s JHOL
2.     To get players back in shape (good shape)
3.     And I am personally really very bored of news with all the cricket in it

Also, the players can get uninterrupted parties for two years…the captain says, “parties ke beech me cricket bahut aa jata hai.” So touchy situation.

And This Too Shall Pass

You might have heard or read this story, but I thought this should get a place on my blog space.
It's beautiful, mythological story.
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One day Solomon decided to humble Benaiah ben Yehoyada, his most trusted minister. He said to him, "Benaiah, there is a certain ring that I want you to bring to me. I wish to wear it for Sukkot which gives you six months to find it."

"If it exists anywhere on earth, your majesty," replied Benaiah, "I will find it and bring it to you, but what makes the ring so special?"
"It has magic powers," answered the king. "If a happy man looks at it, he becomes sad, and if a sad man looks at it, he becomes happy." Solomon knew that no such ring existed in the world, but he wished to give his minister a little taste of humility.

Spring passed and then summer and still Benaiah had no idea where he could find the ring. On the night before Sukkot, he decided to take a walk in one of the poorest quarters of Jerusalem. He passed by a merchant who had begun to set out the day's wares on a shabby carpet. "Have you by any chance heard of a magic ring that makes the happy wearer forget his joy and the broken-hearted wearer forget his sorrows?" asked Benaiah.

He watched the grandfather take a plain gold ring from his carpet and engrave something on it. When Benaiah read the words on the ring, his face broke out in a wide smile.
That night the entire city welcomed in the holiday of Sukkot with great festivity. "Well, my friend," said Solomon, "have you found what I sent you after?" All the ministers laughed and Solomon himself smiled.

To everyone's surprise, Benaiah held up a small gold ring and declared, "Here it is, your majesty!" As soon as Solomon read the inscription, the smile vanished from his face. The jeweler had written three Hebrew letters on the gold band: "gimel, zayin, yud", which began the words "Gam zeh ya'avor" -- "This too shall pass."

At that moment Solomon realized that all his wisdom and fabulous wealth and tremendous power were but fleeting things, for one day he would be nothing but dust.
Source  - http://www.inspirationalstories.com
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If you are bestowed with happiness, love and prosperity, enjoy it - coz, may be, "this too shall pass".

And if you are caught in some sad situation or are afraid of something, don't worry - coz, definitely, "this too shall pass".
Love.
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