Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar is God Period

I just could not resist putting up a blog post. I am doing so for my selfish reasons beacause I dont want to forget it(I will never) but still whenever I will open this blog it will remind me that there was one man who has marked the day .

200 Not Out from just 147 Balls with 25 Boundaries and 3 sixes, batting from the 1st over till the last ball of the entire Indian innings, this spectacle will be, and should be, talked, written and discussed all over the sporting world for not only days, months but years to come. It took 2961 One-day Internationals, before the 200 mark barrier was broken and that too by one of the finest cricketers of all time.

In the era of Facebook, Twitter and IMs, it seemed pretty obvious that not only the print media but the electronic media and communications would be going ga-ga over Sachin's innings. But what stood out when Sachin actually scored that run was the commentary from the two commentators, the excerpts of which are below:

Ravi Shastri:A Huge Cheer from the Crowd ... Here is the opportunity for the little fellaw ...
Sachin on strike, hits the ball towards point, runs for a single and the crowd goes berserk !!!
Ravi Shastri: Gets it ! First man on the planet to reach 200 ... And it's the superman from India ... Take a bow Master ...

You little champion ... If there was anyone deserving to break this milestone, this everest, it is certainly Sachin Tendulkar ...

When you see someone scoring 200 you will obviously get lost thinking about that inning.....the first man ever to get to this score in ODI,442 matches taken him but he is there before anyone else....

One man's words cannot justify the excitement every Indian has felt on the day. So here is a compilation of the thoughts as my friends have quoted(thanks to Raja for the compiled list):

"He doesn't require much effort to keep India happy - all he has to do is get hold of a bat and stride out to the middle. With Sachin Tendulkar superlatives don't ever exhaust themselves. There might come a day when Roget's Thesaurus will fail to find adequate words to describe the man, but he himself will not fail. " -Utkrisht Kumar Shandilya

“Every Indain had an orgasm” - S Aditya Shekhar

God (yes, the Real One) [on feeling insecured by Sachin's recent elevation to God]: "...and I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger, and you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you..." – Pulkit Anand

"Contrary to popular perception, Sachin Tendulkar (also known as the God, Master Blaster, the One, Jesus etc) is actually made of flesh and blood. There are suggestions (unclaimed) that He is a genetically modified homo-sapiens, and arguments (unproved) that He is a by product of improved evolution. A further theory emphasizes that He is one of the two prototypes, other being a certain Bradman, made by the Jedi before the Sith Wars to clobber the dark side into submission." - Abhishek Kashyap

"Through proxy-wars and floods,terrorist attacks and droughts, through living under corrupt politicians and battling for survival at work or school - through it all, it was one man that brought us hope, who needed only to wield a bat to unite the most diverse country in the world. A hero who did not need a script, arc-lights and endless retakes to have the audience gasping in awe, but played out dramas in real-time." - Prateek Kr. Jain

"@sachin: thank u for everything and for all that is yet to come..thanks for bringing this smile on the 100 crore faces...only if you could play another 20 yrs..there r no words which even come close to substantiating ur greatness..u have belittled God today..hats off !!" - Ankit Kakrania

"aaj india ka hapiness index badh gaya hai......wah sachin" - Prateek Kr. Jain

"24th February... Happy Sachin Day!!!!" - Surya Teja P.

"yo sachin................aaj cricket itihaas ka sabse bada din hain..........aur sab shrey jata hain cricket ke baadshah batting ke khuda sachin ko..................isase bada din shayad hi is sadi me dekhne ko mile..............." - Mahesh Kumar

"no bird in hand and..... none in the bush!!! but bcoz of sachin, i m khush" - Pradeep Rathore

"If you have grown up as an average middle-class Indian kid in the 90's, you know what I mean. This one's to God. Sachin Tendulkar." - Somnath Meher

"Sachin=God! Om Sachinayen Namah!" - Amit Bhojane

"Sachin is God. Period." - Shrey Goyal

"God is Sachin" - Raja Gopal Sunkara

"of all the players on the planet, it had to be him. like they say in slumdog millionaire...IT WAS WRITTEN." - Pratyush Peddireddi

"100 years ago, in South Africa, someone threw an Indian off a train. Today, an Indian derailed South Africa only...." – Unknown

"opened a new coulumn in a batting cards...SACHIN !! 50s-93, 100s-45, 200s-1" - Raghu Komal P.

"theres Jack Bauer and theres Clark Kent and then theres Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar" - Suraj Dandekar

"God himself envies SACHIN!!!!! - L. Karthik Reddy

"Not everyone can make a 100 crore human beings go crazy." - Biswakalyan Rath

"commit ur sins while sachin is batting... coz god is busy watching" - Ravidutta Choudhuri

"Sometimes reality goes beyond imagination !!!! God at work indeed !!" - Abhinav Ankur

"Reducing atheists since 1989" - Suyash Sinha

3 Bows from me to the Master !!!

Emotions

Yes, we were flirting. A while later, she asked me the question - what did I study? I said engineering, without any particular meaning attached to it. And then like a cold metal rail, she went stiff. My jokes weren’t funny any more. Her eyes wandered to everyone else. What was it? Why? Why? Why?
I wonder why people consider engineers to have lack of ‘emotions’. Even the girls think that we don’t have that ‘touchy feeling’ in us.
Is it true?
Actually, four or more years of math, logic, science, and engineering can turn anyone into an automaton.
I am no exception of the above statement. I have a lot of contempt for the soft side of life .Emotions and feelings are not real, just some figment of someone's overactive hormones acting up. They are useless. They leave people susceptible to arguments that prey on man's irrationality.
The whole concept of human emotions and feelings is an overrated thing. Actually emotions are illusions like that of the tooth fairy, or santa claus. They are things we fabricate in our mind.
Like the illusion of falling in love, it’s great for young people. It’s better for older people who don't want to let it go and appreciate the magic that they feel, the eternal journey and adventure that comes from seeking it out, pretending to have it, and the tragedy and loss of waking up to find it gone. However it was never there. Love, perhaps the most selfish action any human being can express to others or themselves. It is similar to ordering the best available food in a restaurant from the menu only this time you choose a person. You change the restaurant and your preference change and similarly surroundings and conditions change your love.
All feelings which surge in our mind are just our own contemplations and the reactions which we choose subconsciously consciously. Feelings/Emotions are cultural invention not a natural phenomenon. We have been so deeply indoctrinated into the emotional mythology that we have no awareness of the process of programming that creates our responses. Popular culture provides the main way we learn to ‘emote’. Movies, literature etc. So in reality all emotions are well crafted responses a person have thought of in certain situations. We are just acting them.
So, some of us choose to be real and some of us always acting/faking. And Engineers, my friends have chosen to be real and not very good actors.
Hence Proved.

P. S.

So,My first few posts have told you that how wretched writer I am going to be. And as usual some of the grammar will always be terrible(please point me out if you find one).
I hope this blog should not be something like those things which I started and have lost interest in between. I know this blog is self centric and not going to make much sense to others but then whole point of having a blog is to unload your thougts.

Lot more crap to come :)

Destiny

Destiny’s a pretty big concept, when you think about it. Where you are in life, how you got there, what would have happened if one thing or another had been different…

Life is like that jigsaw puzzle in which every piece fit in to other and results into a different solution. It’s all up to us that what we perceive right at that moment and fit which piece into which. That is why I wonder that what if I would have chosen X instead of Y. How different life would have been? I still wonder about the possible solutions of jigsaw of my life. I still think of those key moments but I would never know what would have happened if I had chosen to act differently. But, I believe that till now whatever I have been able to make out of these scattered pieces I am graced to meet some most wonderful people in my life.
Move On….

Le jour

'The Day'(Last Day of College) - 15 MAY 2009

There are times for which you wait long and when they come you really dont know how to react.
This is something like that....I am filled up with mixed feelings and emotions.
Till now everything in life was scheduled but now uncertainty is everywhere....I dont what I want from life.
I hope I will soon find all the answers....


Narration
These words explains my present state very well. Its been more than six months that college has ended but I am still in hangover of it. I wish that may be its all a bad dream and will woke up in B224 realizing that I have just missed an important class or test ....'what the hell'(as if saying these words will undo all the aftereffects of my oversleeping) and come out of my room in quest for a 'sutta' from 'pappu' or 'maalik'. May be after that ‘smacky’ will come asking for billoos and we will all head up for the heaviest lunch :). If it is all true please wake me up....

Preface

Now I have started a public blog I was thinking of shifting some of my posts from private blog to this one. They may not make much sense to you but still I am following an advice. Yeah, recently somebody have told me that thoughts are not meant to be kept tight locked under but should be brought into sunlight where they can take their shape and sprout.

In fact what I will do is that I will keep on posting the fresh material as well as in between I will repost the old post from my private blog with original publishing date.

I hope that someday somebody will read this.

Untitled

This is not my first blog. I have deleted first one because of the generosity of my friends (long storryy) and therefore second blog I have created kept as a secret more like a personal diary. I do post in that on regular basis but the only one who reads and comments on that blog is me.
The reason I am writing a first public post is because I want to share the thoughts which are intriguing me.I am away from my country and this weekend I have got the news of Pune blast. The reaction was of little frustration and sadness but then this was not the event for one would have burst out in comparison to past happenings in our country. And then in an hour I got the sad news of demise of fellow kgpian. I was not among his best acquaintances but I do know him from an interview we attended together in Kolkata. A sudden surge of feeling filled my heart. The realization of how pity and indeed invaluable life is. The numbers took the form of rel people. I felt helpless to think about his parents for whom everything got ended in seconds.
In todays world uncertainty has become so heavy that when people call their dear ones to ask if they had lunch or something else, they actually make sure if they are alive or not.
My problem is that I am not getting the reason of these ill deeds. Why is all this happening? What is the point which is been proved here? How can killing innocent people can explain any ideology or put forward the point? Who is benefiting from all this? Why what how who?????
:( :( :( :(
R.I.P Ankik