Wake Up Call
It is a now an official standard procedure to send back who ever is not performing. The returning with thanks ‘Irfan Pathan’ is all set to come back home to play a ranji trophy match or two before taking on the giants at the world cup. Good idea. The practice or otherwise Irfan gets bowling out at small timers or the left outs for the sake of playing for the zones will help him face the masters of the game at world cup. At least this is what the selectors or the team think tank feels.
The fact that exposure to international cricket is necessary for a player of Irfan’s caliber rather than sending him to basics, and start all over again. This is nothing but experiment of another kind. Greg Chappell has the reputation of toying with the ideas that does not work and the whole world knows it. He first sent Irfan as an opening batsman, the sent him at three, then at five and tried to use his potential as a batsman and never bothered to improve or concentrate on his bowling.
This clearly is an indication that the top order batsmen, barring Rahul Dravid proved to be out of form and failed to cling on and make runs. This just made Irfan’s job too intricate, and he lost his sense of understanding as a bowler.
Agreed that the non-performers be sent back and punished. However, what were the selectors doing when Sehwag and Tendulkar constantly failing to perform.
Selectors wake up and ask the travel agents to book two more tickets for Sehwag and Tendulkar. The flights will be too happy to fly them back.
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
MEN BEWARE.
A case came up for hearing at the court. The first case that has come up under the newly enacted or somewhat enforced ‘Protection of Women against Domestic Violence Act’. The court hall is spell bound.
A woman judge chairs the court.
The lawyer representing the wife is a woman. The court hall is filled with media reporters, obviously women. The police present there were also women in uniform. The only men conspicuous by their presence or otherwise are the husband and his lawyer.
The woman lawyer is screaming left, right and centre to get justice for her client.
'Your Honor, this man is so cruel, brutal, nasty and pitiless, that he tried all the tricks up his sleeves in distressing, intimidating and harassing my client. He used to pester her for money, almost three to four times a week’
The husband’s lawyer woke up and said, ‘Your Honor,that was only small change to pay the auto fellow.’
‘But Your Honor, money is money and pestering for it amounts to dowry harassment’ the wife’s lawyer said. ‘This is nothing Your Honor; He even attempted to kill my client on two occasions’.
The husband’s lawyer woke to say ‘Objection’, but the judge has already overruled. He then went back to sleep.
The Judge asked the woman lawyer, ‘Can you substantiate your argument and prove to the court that this man attempted to kill his wife’.
‘Yes Your Honor. The first attempt was made on 27 September 2006. On that day, this man bought 15 liters of kerosene in a can. He bought it at Rs 30/ per liter, much higher than the open market rate, from Banarasilal oil merchants, Donghi chowk.’
The husband’s lawyer did not wake up this time, but the husband did and hence screamed. ‘Your Honor, that kerosene was meant for lighting up the lamps in the house and for cooking food as there is acute shortage of LPG. But certainly not to put off the light of my life, my wife’, he pleaded with folded hands wiping relentlessly tears flowing down his eyes, with the sleeves of his shirt. His wail fell on deaf ears, that includes his lawyer who is still sleeping.
The wife’s lawyer continued. ‘The second attempt was more planned, deliberate and premeditated. He purchased a two-way ticket for his wife and her mother, on the pretext of pilgrimage that spread for 24 days covering 12,467 kms, with 72 bridges and 9 tunnels.’
‘How does that amount to attempted murder?’ asked the Judge.
The husbands’ lawyer woke up just then and a smile crossed on the husbands face.
‘Your Honor, this is the evidence’ showing a railway ticket. ‘He planned to kill them by sending them in train which on some pretext or the other jumping off the tracks and into the rivers and killing all the passengers’
The husbands’ lawyer went back to sleep and grief came back on the husband’s face. All smiles for the wife.
‘My next point to prove his criminal tendency is he recently read few books written by some of the famous authors and watching a film or two produced by Ram Gopal Varma.’
‘I find nothing objectionable in your point. Everybody has the right to read and watch movies.’ The judge said.
This time neither the husband smiled nor his lawyer woke up, quite certain about the competence and skill of the other lawyer.
‘Yes Your Honor, but the books he chooses to read were ‘How to murder a Wife’, ‘A perfect Murder’, ‘Teach yourself the art of Murdering’. Then the movies like ‘My wife’s murder’
‘Madhyannapu Hatya’ (afternoon murder).’
The Judge noted the point and proclaimed the judgment. ‘After hearing the accusations against the husband, the court has come to the conclusion that there is sufficient evidence to prove him guilty and sentences him to five years rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs one lakh to be paid to the wife. The wife is free to apply for a divorce and claim damages from him’.
The husband screamed ‘NO’. The whole world woke up, including his wife sleeping next to him. She asked ‘what happened, any bad dream?’
‘Yeah, I am canceling your pilgrimage trip with your mother’, he said.
‘Ok, go ahead and cancel the trip, I will file a case against you under ‘Protection of Women against Domestic Violence Act’ she turned the other side showing her disgust.
He again screamed NO, which he could not himself hear.
A case came up for hearing at the court. The first case that has come up under the newly enacted or somewhat enforced ‘Protection of Women against Domestic Violence Act’. The court hall is spell bound.
A woman judge chairs the court.
The lawyer representing the wife is a woman. The court hall is filled with media reporters, obviously women. The police present there were also women in uniform. The only men conspicuous by their presence or otherwise are the husband and his lawyer.
The woman lawyer is screaming left, right and centre to get justice for her client.
'Your Honor, this man is so cruel, brutal, nasty and pitiless, that he tried all the tricks up his sleeves in distressing, intimidating and harassing my client. He used to pester her for money, almost three to four times a week’
The husband’s lawyer woke up and said, ‘Your Honor,that was only small change to pay the auto fellow.’
‘But Your Honor, money is money and pestering for it amounts to dowry harassment’ the wife’s lawyer said. ‘This is nothing Your Honor; He even attempted to kill my client on two occasions’.
The husband’s lawyer woke to say ‘Objection’, but the judge has already overruled. He then went back to sleep.
The Judge asked the woman lawyer, ‘Can you substantiate your argument and prove to the court that this man attempted to kill his wife’.
‘Yes Your Honor. The first attempt was made on 27 September 2006. On that day, this man bought 15 liters of kerosene in a can. He bought it at Rs 30/ per liter, much higher than the open market rate, from Banarasilal oil merchants, Donghi chowk.’
The husband’s lawyer did not wake up this time, but the husband did and hence screamed. ‘Your Honor, that kerosene was meant for lighting up the lamps in the house and for cooking food as there is acute shortage of LPG. But certainly not to put off the light of my life, my wife’, he pleaded with folded hands wiping relentlessly tears flowing down his eyes, with the sleeves of his shirt. His wail fell on deaf ears, that includes his lawyer who is still sleeping.
The wife’s lawyer continued. ‘The second attempt was more planned, deliberate and premeditated. He purchased a two-way ticket for his wife and her mother, on the pretext of pilgrimage that spread for 24 days covering 12,467 kms, with 72 bridges and 9 tunnels.’
‘How does that amount to attempted murder?’ asked the Judge.
The husbands’ lawyer woke up just then and a smile crossed on the husbands face.
‘Your Honor, this is the evidence’ showing a railway ticket. ‘He planned to kill them by sending them in train which on some pretext or the other jumping off the tracks and into the rivers and killing all the passengers’
The husbands’ lawyer went back to sleep and grief came back on the husband’s face. All smiles for the wife.
‘My next point to prove his criminal tendency is he recently read few books written by some of the famous authors and watching a film or two produced by Ram Gopal Varma.’
‘I find nothing objectionable in your point. Everybody has the right to read and watch movies.’ The judge said.
This time neither the husband smiled nor his lawyer woke up, quite certain about the competence and skill of the other lawyer.
‘Yes Your Honor, but the books he chooses to read were ‘How to murder a Wife’, ‘A perfect Murder’, ‘Teach yourself the art of Murdering’. Then the movies like ‘My wife’s murder’
‘Madhyannapu Hatya’ (afternoon murder).’
The Judge noted the point and proclaimed the judgment. ‘After hearing the accusations against the husband, the court has come to the conclusion that there is sufficient evidence to prove him guilty and sentences him to five years rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs one lakh to be paid to the wife. The wife is free to apply for a divorce and claim damages from him’.
The husband screamed ‘NO’. The whole world woke up, including his wife sleeping next to him. She asked ‘what happened, any bad dream?’
‘Yeah, I am canceling your pilgrimage trip with your mother’, he said.
‘Ok, go ahead and cancel the trip, I will file a case against you under ‘Protection of Women against Domestic Violence Act’ she turned the other side showing her disgust.
He again screamed NO, which he could not himself hear.
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