mera bharat mahaan?

And now, without an iota of doubt, I can say that Raha is a bad omen for India in general and Indian cricket in particular.

I returned his favour by updating him about the cricket match regularly. I even tolerated his, "Man, the bas***s can't $$%^&## bowl! The &^$%#^%, how the *&%$##@ did the &^$#@@@@%^ get selected in the #$%^^&%# team???"
I saw every single ball bowled yesterday and what happens in the end, we lose. The friggin' D-L system never ever favoured us! And that's probably the ONLY way Pak would've won the match anyway but Dravid bhai(I know, I finally gave up my dreams of marrying him. He's looking kinda old, isn't he?) how tough is it to defend 328? And the sad part is, we had 2 balls to spare!:(

And I told you about Manmohan didn't I? He openly agreed at his Press Conference that "the shared leadership is working very well". How shameful!
The Congress took over Hyderabad this January. I'm not kidding, the only things they hadn't painted on or stuck flags in were the people. The city was all ominous hands and what not. And the area around the Stadium where the Plenary was held was renamed Rajiv Nagar. And there was a poster titled "the Gandhis", with the Mahatma on one side and the bloody Italian on the other. They've hijacked the Mahatma and made him party property. All schemes in A.P. are either called some Rajiv(ex: Rajiv Nagara Bata) or some Indira(ex: Indiramma scheme). It's almost funny but not quite! The last time around, she promised a widow, who's husband was a farmer and had committed suicide, that she would sanction her one and a half lakhs. She has got only Rs. 40,000 so far. And it doesn't look like she's going to get any more of the promised money. This is the tip of the iceberg. When is all this going to end?

Oh and as was expected, we gave in to U.S. pressure this time around too. Can you believe we voted against them again? It was an ill-advised thing to do the first time itself and now it just goes to show that we have no "independant" foreign policy. When countries like Venezuala and Cuba could take a stand, why the hell can't we? We allow Mulford to make outrageous comments, to dictate terms to us and we bend our heads and accept it without anything close to a whimper! Are we so used to colonial imperialism that we will simply accept such blatant impropriety without any corrective action? Was it democratic to vote in favour of reporting Iran to the S.C? Why wasn't there atleast a Joint session where this was debated? When one case of Sati in Rajasthan can spur a heated debate in Parliament, why wasn't this ever taken up?

I am sick and tired of bemoaning the present state of affairs in our country.
I am working towards being the change I want to see. What about you?