Would Pawar Save Some Money for the Starving Indian Peasantry?
Have Some Tears for Other Performers as Sensex Shining India is celebtrtaing Cricket Carnivals!
Entire national Hockey Squad May Not Go on a Hunger Strike But Orphaned Indian Hockey is deprived of Chak De!
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Sensex Shining India is celebtrtaing Cricket Carnivals. All tears are spent to defend the Zionist Brahminical blind Hindu Nationality. Have some tears for other performers!Chak de has become the theme song for victory but while the cricket team is basking in its glory the hockey team feels orphaned.NDTV reports.One can understand why the hockey team is so angry, in fact some of the players and staff have threatened to go on a hunger strike.While the entire squad may not go on a hunger strike, it's clear that hockey is tired of being treated as the poor cousin of cricket. Cricket has become the best expression of Brand India Nationality and it pays heavily! Apart from being ignored by the (Indian Hockey Federation) IHF, the state associations and state governments alike the hockey squad is also upset that even the sponsors have not acknowledged their achievements.Sahara who sponsors both the cricket and hockey team, were quick to hand out houses to the twenty20 team but the hockey team didn't get anything.The hockey squad says they are thrilled for the twenty20 win but they feel the time is right for all non-cricket sports to launch their protest against this step motherly treatment.India has improved its position in the comity of nations in terms of integrity as it is ranked 72 among 180 countries in the Corruption Index this year, Transparency International (TI) has said.
Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Wednesday thanked the countrymen for their overwhelming support and for gathering for the felicitation ceremony for Team India at the Wankhede Stadium. Addressing the teeming thousands who had braved the rains, he said it seemed Mumbai had come to a standstill.
Reports Zeenews.To honour the men-in-blue, who ended a 24-year wait by bringing back home the inaugural Twenty20 World Cup crown, several state governments, political parties, the central government and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) have announced incentives and monetary rewards for the Indian cricketers. Meanwhile, Civil Aviation Minister Prafful Patel has announced that the Team India would now be entitled for a free travel in the country?s flagship career Air India for five years. Six Indian cricketers, also the employees of Air India, would be promoted out-of-turn in recognition of their achievement.
Why Hockey only? Recently Indian Footballers won the Nehru Cup! Who paid them incentives? Was there any corporate sponsership to boost Football. Waht about our atheletes? It is quite amusing that Newly appointed Congress general secretary, Rahul Gandhi, met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday.He asked the UPA government to extend its flagship programme - the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme - to the entire country.The scheme that guarantees a minimum of 100 days of employment to at least one member of every family is being implemented in 330 rural districts right now.
But the 11-member Congress delegation, led by Rahul Gandhi, wants it extended over 600 districts as it is in the interest of the aam admi.
Who cares for the Common masses?
They claim so well: Hindi, Hindu Hindustan!
Hindi Officers, diplomates and politicians may be the ingrdients of Creamy Layers. What about Hindi writers and journalists starving while the Engish writers and journalist always have the cake walk. See the discrimination in the same house publishing English as well as Hindi publications!
Artists like Somnath Hore die unnoticed. Celebraties in Bollywood live Cat`s life hundred times.
Eleven scientists selected for Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award
Eleven scientists have been selected for this year`s Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award for their outstanding contribution to various disciplines of science.
What do these scientists get for their lifelong research and inventions? The age of self-reliance in space programmes has gone, says former Chairman of ISRO K Kasturirangan, who suggests that countries should cooperate with each other to cut down time and developmental costs.
You have to struggle so much to survive and avoid starvation. But in Indian Cricket, it is altogether a different story. A twenty Over match may change your destiny and you may win corores!
Whose money is it afterall which is reserved only for the Indian Idols of the National team. While the taxpayers toil so hard to sustain livelihood. This govetrnment has no money to save the starving people!
Sharad Pawar is BCCI chairman. At the same time he happens to be the cabinet minister in GOI, responsible for Agriculture. Pawar remains always a Nero while peasant in his homestate Maharashtra commit suicide enmasse! Has Pawar some money for the starving peasants of Maharastra? Praising the feat achieved by the skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his men, the BCCI chief Sharad Pawar had declared an award of USD 3 million for the whole team. Besides, he has also announced a whopping Rs 1 crore for the dashing left-hander Yuvraj Singh, who enthralled the spectators by smashing six consecutives sixes in an over. The ?prince of sixers? will also get an expensive Porsche 919 luxury car for becoming the first batsman to hit six sixes in the Twenty20 format of the game.
While the BCCI and state governments and local cricket associations have been showering the twenty20 champions with cash awards, cars and 'surprise' gifts, the men's hockey team has lodged a strong protest against what they call step motherly treatment by the government and the sponsors.The Indian twenty20 squad has been awarded around Rs 80 lakh per head by the Indian cricket board for winning the world cup, and very well deserved too, but compare that to the Rs 50,000 the entire hockey squad earned for their Asia Cup win earlier this month. Chief Coach of the national hockey team Joaquim Carvalho was peeved that while title victory of his wards in the Asia Cup was ignored, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel and the state governments of Maharashtra, Haryana, Jharkhand and Karnataka announced cash awards for the cricketers for winning the Twenty20 World Cup.
India's cricket triumph in the Twenty20 World Championship caps one of the most successful 30 days in sport for the country, coming after the Nehru Cup win in football and Asia Cup victory in hockey. 'Ranchi conquers Karachi', screams Dhoni's hometown daily.Headline writers across the country had a field day following India's five-run win over Pakistan in the final of the Twenty20 World Championships in Johannesburg. Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik on Wednesday described his team's close defeats against India as sheer bad luck and said the players were high on morale as they were not lacking in cricketing terms.The victorious Indian Twenty20 World Cup squad spent more time in traversing the 30-km distance from the airport and the Wankhede Stadium on Wednesday than in defeating arch-rivals Pakistan to clinch the inaugural chamionship in Johannesburg, DNA comments.Lending support to victorious Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, his deputy Yuvraj Singh said the Jharkhand player, who led the team to Twenty20 World Cup win, is the best possible skipper under present circumstances. Yuvraj said he was not bothered about captaincy and tried to cooperate with Dhoni during the Twenty20 tournament in South Africa.
The rain could not dampen the spirits of thousands of fans, who waited for their heroes outside the CSI airport. Maharashtra Chief Minister, Vilasrao Deshmukh, Deputy Chief Minister, R R Patil, top brass of the Cricket Board, including president Sharad Pawar, Vice Presidents Lalit Modi and Rajeev Shukla, Secretary Niranjan Shah and chief selector Dilip Vengsarkar were present at the airport to receive the players. It was the kind of welcome the Indian team had earlier received after Kapil Dev led the country to the 1983 ODI World Cup, and prior to that in 1971 when Ajit Wadekar's team had won the Test series in the West Indies.
DNA reports:
A Twenty20 game lasts around three hours, including a break of 20 minutes between the innnings, but triumphant skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his team members, who were taken in a 30-km long motorcade, took an extra hour to reach the Wankhede Stadium where they were feliciated by the Cricket Board and the Maharashtra government.
The extra long (in terms of time taken) journey for the team members, seated in an open-topped BEST bus, was because of the sea of humanity through which the vehicle had to pass right through the route from the airport in northwest Mumbai and the stadium in the southern part of the metropolis.
It was an amazing show of glee and enthusiasm shown by the Mumbaikars in greeting the team that was given very little chance to win the crown by the same cricket fans before the tournament began on September 11.
Dhoni made an apt comment at the felicitation function later by saying that Mumbai was a city that never stops moving but on Wednesday it had come to a standstill to welcome the team.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is trying to reduce the failure rate in launch of space vehicles to less than 5% in the near future and to less than 1% in the next 10 years, its Chairman G Madhavan Nair said.
Eklavya - The Royal Guard by Vidhu Vinod Chopra has been selected as the as India's official entry for the Oscars. With Amitabh Bachchan in the lead role as Eklavya, the multi-starrer film was released on 16th February this year.
Besides congratulatory messages and accolades, money is raining heavy on Team India from different corners for their glorious feat at the Twenty20 World Cup in South Africa. R P Singh, one of the stars of Indian victory in Twenty20 World Cup at Johannesburg last night, will be the first recepient of coveted 'Kanshiram International Sports Award' instituted by the Uttar Pradesh government. Former India captain Kapil Dev today opined that the senior trio of Sachin Tendulkar, Saurav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid should support the newly-selected Team India ODI captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni in the forthcoming series against Australia.
Jalandhar/Ernakulam (Kerala)/Vadodara /Mumbai/New Delhi: Relatives of Indian cricketers joined in nation-wide celebrations following the team's thrilling five-run win over Pakistan in the inaugural Twenty20 World Championship.
It was a ceremony meant to facilitate Team India for winning the Twenty20 World Championship, but cricket virtually took a 'back seat' at the Wankhede Stadium here today, as no cricketer except skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni was given a seat in the front row at the dais. It will be a surprise gift for Mahendra Singh Dhoni when the victorious Indian skipper arrives home, and just what the surprise is to be the Jharkhand government isn't telling. The Wankhede Stadium was packed to the rafters as the triumphant Indian cricket team completed the ticker tape celebrating their success at the Twenty20 World Championships in South Africa.Thousands of wildly cheering fans lined the roads despite the rain and repeatedly threatened to surge over police barricades as the triumphant Indian cricket team rode in an open-top double-decker bus from Mumbai airport to Wankhede stadium Wednesday morning. Irked by the "step-motherly treatment" meted out to the Indian hockey players by the central and four state governments, the team members have decided to go on a 'hunger strike'.Chief Coach of the national team Joaquim Carvalho was peeved that while the title victory of his wards in the Asia Cup was ignored, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel and the state governments of Maharashtra, Haryana, Jharkhand and Karnataka had announced cash awards for the cricketers for winning the Twenty20 World Cup.Sahara India Pariwar, the main sponsor of the Indian Cricket Team, has announced an award of over Rs 4 crore for the players, gifting them a home each in their mega infrastructure project ' Sahara City Homes'. The Australians will be spoiling for revenge when they begin their seven-match tour in Bangalore Saturday after being knocked out of the Twenty20 World Championships by the Indians. On the other hand, Pakistan cricketers have less than a week to switch to Test mode after the just-concluded Twenty20 World Championships, with the opening game against South Africa to be played here from Oct 1.
The triumphant Indian team that won the inaugural Twenty20 World Cup in Johannesburg last evening, will arrive in Bangalore in batches from tomorrow night, since cricket fever has gripped the city with just four days left for the first One Day International(ODI) between India and Australia at M Chinnaswamy stadium here on September 29.
Anguish caused by burning of effigy of their son and ''so called'' cricket lovers' ire expressed following the World Cup debacle in West Indies is yet to be forgotten by India's Twenty 20 Captain Mahindra Singh Dhoni's parents.
"Why are our hockey players are being treated like orphans and why are our politicians biased against hockey, the national game?" Carvalho asked.
Carvalho said, "We are grateful ever to the President of India for her sending individual letters congratulating the hockey players for their Asia Cup win, without losing a match." He said a coach and four players had planned to go on a hunger strike before the Karnataka Chief Minister's house to protest the announcment of Rs five lakh cash award each for the members of the cricket team, while "treating the State hockey players like dust".
Carvalho said: "The Karnataka CM till date has not congratulated hockey players from the state for the Asia Cup win".
"Coach Ramesh Parameswaran, manager R K Shetty and four players namely Vikram Kanth, V R Rahunath, S V Sunil and Ignace Tirkey) are to go on a hunger strike before the Chief Minister's house," he said.
Twenty20 Cricket World Cup hero Yuvraj Singh is the highest earner among his teammates off the field with his endorsement value shooting over Rs 1 crore each and his fellow players' value will also go up after India's historic win, advertising professionals said on Tuesday.
Yuvraj, endorsing nine brands, including Hero Honda, Pepsi, Reebok and Donear, appears to be slightly ahead of his captain MS Dhoni, who endorses around a dozen brands such as Pepsi, Videocon, Exide and Reebok, among others, with an estimated value of Rs 1 crore per brand.
However, the trio of Indian cricket —Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid — are still ahead of Yuvraj and Dhoni in their endorsement values.
Industry pundits feel the T20 success has catapulted Dhoni's brand equity and already some new companies are trying to rope him in, saying he along with Yuvraj would be in maximum demand.
Other players, who were not much popular prior to the South African outing, are also expected to rake in big bucks with the Johannesburg victory washing away the bitter memories of India's early exit from the ODI World Cup in the West Indies earlier, prompting many advertisers and corporates to change their ad campaigns and brand ambassadors.
“There are a few companies which have contacted us and shown keen interest,” Jeet Banerjee, CEO of Gameplan Sports, which manages Dhoni's account, said. However, he said nothing changes overnight but the cricketers' endorsement value should go up if the team continues to play well.
Similarly, Collage Sports Management Director Latika Khaneja, who manages the accounts of Virendra Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir, said, “I expect more endorsements for Sehwag, who is engaged with Adidas, if he is able to maintain his form. But it will be decided ones he gets back to ODIs.”
Experts say India's win in the Twenty20 World Cup has boosted the brand value of cricketers, raising expectations of media planners and broadcasters that the upcoming home series against Australia will spell good business.
Not only are the media planners bullish on the increased brand value of cricketers, including star performers Dhoni and Yuvraj, but official broadcaster for the India-Australia series Nimbus is also expecting it to be a sell-out in terms of advertisement spots.
The seven-match series starts on September 29.
According to some market observers, there is going to be a big change in Indian cricket in terms of brand endorsements with new and young players making their mark.
“I think there is a new lease of life in cricket with the new generation players in the game. The Yuvraj and Dhoni of today will become Sachin and Ganguly of tomorrow, while players like RP Singh, Robin Uthappa and Dinesh Karthik will become Yuvraj and Dhoni of yesterday,” Globosport India Vice-President Anirban Das Blah said.
Nimbus is expecting the series against Australia to be a sell-out as advertisers are showing interest in cricket again, after the early exit in the ODI World Cup in West Indies.
“We expect the up-coming India-Australia series to be a sell-out,” Nimbus Managing Director Harish Thawani said, adding, T20 had a positive impact on cricket. Whenever India has done well, there has always been a good response to cricket both from viewers and advertisers, he said.
India's triumph in the inaugural Twenty20 World Championships was just what the International Cricket Council (ICC) needed, coming as it did like manna for the beleaguered body, according to the Afrikaans daily Beeld.Somewhat ironically, the victory by India in an ICC tournament will give the opposition ICL an unexpected boost.After the fiasco of the World Cup in the Caribbean, with its many accompanying controversies, ICC chief executive Malcolm Speed had every reason to smile and hail the tournament a roaring success. India's triumphant Twenty20 World Cup squad arrived home on Wednesday to a massive victory parade with hundreds of thousands of joyous fans braving rain to cheer their heroes.Indian and British troops are going ahead with their high-altitude wargames in disputed Kashmir despite protests from Pakistan and separatist groups, an Indian defence official said on Wednesday. India is celebrating a surprise victory in the inaugural Twenty20 World Cup on Tuesday, six months after the team's ignominious first-round exit in the 50-over version of the tournament.
The 'Space Shuttle' programme will be completed by September 10, 2010, National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA) Associate Administrator of the Space Operation Missions Directorate William Gerstenmaier said today. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) must help bring about synergy between science and society so as to bridge the urban-rural divide, eminent scientist M.S. Swaminathan said in New Delhi Wednesday. On tyhe other hand, the devastation caused by floods in northeast and east India has left thousands of people with psychological problems, including post-traumatic stress disorder, health officials said.Millions across South Asia are struggling to rebuild their homes as receding floodwaters reveal the massive devastation caused by heavy monsoon flooding, some of the worst in years.
While flood waters recede, many victims still live in temporary shelters with no idea of when they will return home and with little or no government help to rebuild their houses.
A slow government response has worsened conditions for victims, health workers say, amid criticism of affected local states seen as rife with inefficiency and corruption.
Flood victims are spending sleepless nights in dozens of temporary shelters and are refusing to go back to their villages, officials say.
"We found a large number of victims trembling with recurrent nightmares of losing all their near ones in fresh flooding," said Rajeshwar Thakur, a senior health official, after treating dozens of victims in the eastern Indian state of Bihar.
Floods damaged hundreds of thousands of hectares of farmland and destroyed roads and bridges across the region.
More than 2,000 people in northeastern and eastern India as well as Bangladesh were killed by landslides, drowning, snake bites, diarrhoea and collapsed homes after swollen rivers burst their banks, inundating huge areas since July.
At least 5,000 people had already been treated for mental illnesses in the eastern states of Bihar and West Bengal caused by prolonged misery and suffering during this year's floods.
India's most ambitious scheme ever to lift people out of poverty has met with largely disappointing results in its first year, studies suggest. Reports BBC.The $2.2bn scheme, which was launched by the Congress-led government in 200 districts, guarantees 100 days of work a year for every rural home. It has been described as India's New Deal for the poor in a country where 70% of its people live in villages. Critics say the scheme squanders public money and builds wasteful assets. The National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme was launched in February last year to provide employment to millions of people in India's poorest villages to work on building local infrastructure like village roads, small dams, ponds and buildings.
On the other hand,INDIAN authorities have warned Britons visiting India to pay homage to British soldiers who died in the 1857 revolt against colonial rule, to stay away from a historic site following protests. A group of British historians and retired soldiers visiting India have ditched their plans to visit a historic site in the 1857 revolt against colonial rule after protests from Indian nationalists.A small band of protesters had pelted their bus with garbage when they arrived in Lucknow in north India on Monday. The local government warned the Britons to stay inside their hotel for fear of further attacks, and posted policemen outside.Some of the group left for Kolkata on Wednesday morning. The rest plan to leave later in the day. Reuters reports. Stuck inside their hotel rooms, none of them got to see the Residency of Lucknow, the site of the Siege of Lucknow -- a key event in what is known in India as the First War of Independence and in Britain as the Sepoy Mutiny.The group, which includes descendants of the British soldiers who fought and died during the uprising by Indian soldiers, said they had planned to commemorate both the British and Indian dead in a battle which they said saw savagery on both sides.The small band of protesters -- sometimes outnumbered by the journalists and cameramen covering them -- were led by a local leader of the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, India's main opposition party.Some activists forced their way into the Residency on Tuesday and attempted to deface the graves of the British soldiers and their family members, who were among the 3,000 killed during the 1857 siege.
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Celebrations over India clinching the inaugural Twenty20 Cricket World Cup after defeating Pakistan at Johannesburg turned into violent communal clashes at places in Jammu and Kashmir, Assam and Uttarakhand, leaving scores of people injured on Monday night. The police in all three states had to fire in the air to disperse the mobs. For millions of fans around the world, and India in particular, cricket itself is a religion -- the Twenty20 version being the latest denomination. So when Pakistani cricket team's skipper Shoaib Malik brought a communal hue to the gentleman's game with a gratuitous thanks to Muslims all over the world, ostensibly for supporting Pakistan, the blowback on the blogosphere was swift. The first reaction came from Pakistanis themselves. "How about Hindu and Christian Pakistanis in the US, Canada, and Gulf who supported the Pakistan cricket team? Don't we count?" wrote "ChristianPak" on
the blog Pakistaniat. com . Others thought the remark was thoughtless and gratuitous considering the Pakistan team itself has had a token representation of a couple of Hindus and a Christian in the past. It also does not sit well with Pakistan's current attempt, arguably feeble, to present a face of "enlightened moderation" prescribed by its military ruler Pervez Musharraf.
In Sapatgram, under Bogaribari police station in western Assam's Dhubri district, more than 20 persons, including two police officers, were injured when the police opened fire to bring under control a communal clash that broke out on Monday night after India's victory.
In Uttarakhand, celebrations over the winning of the Twenty20 World Cup led to clashes between two communities in Udham Singh Nagar late on Monday night. The police fired in the air to disperse the warring groups and additional forces were deployed to prevent the violence from escalating. According to reports reaching here, tension began brewing between two communities in the Gadarpur area of Udham Singh Nagar after India lifted the Twenty20 World Cup. Members of one community burst crackers and took out a procession to celebrate the victory, which was objected to by members of another community. Soon the argument intensified and the clashes began, leaving five persons seriously injured. Four persons have been arrested in connection with the clashes and patrolling has been intensified. The situation in nearby towns, like Kitchha, was also stated to be tense but under control, the police said.
Reports received in Srinagar said that soon after Pakistan lost the match, a large number of Hindu residents took to the streets in sensitive Rajouri, dancing to the tune of beating drums, chanting slogans and bursting fire crackers to celebrate the victory on Monday night. A jubilant crowd, while passing by a mosque, allegedly threw burning crackers into the place of worship where Muslims were offering special Ramzan taravih prayers. Enraged by the act, a group of Muslims came out and tried to chase the crowd away by throwing stones, witnesses said.
Confirming the incident, IGP (Jammu range) S.P. Vaid said the Muslims alleged that they were attacked by a group of people who were out on the streets to celebrate India's victory over Pakistan. The officer said the local police, on learning about the incident, rushed to the spot along with the CRPF and quickly brought the situation under control. Witnesses said the policemen fired their rifles in the air to disperse the mobs after the use of batons failed to yield the desired result.
But what rankled many Indians was Malik's attempt to own worldwide
Muslim sentiment for Pakistan when India has as many Muslims who
support their home team, which has always had a healthy
representation of Muslims and other minorities and has been a
showcase for India's secular society.
The same holds true of Sri Lanka and England, whose teams are also
multi-cultural, multi-ethnic and secular.
Yet a new group is emerging at the very top. They're CEOs and CFOs of global corporations, and partners and executives in global investment banks, law firms and consultancies. Unlike most national symbolic analysts, these global symbolic analysts conduct almost all their work in English, and share with one another an increasingly similar cosmopolitan culture.There's a good economic reason that this group of global symbolic analysts emerged. Global commerce is now occurring on a scale and with a complexity that no commercial contract can adequately cover and no single legal system can sufficiently enforce. Hence, global dealmakers must rely to an ever greater extent on an extended network of people whom they trust.
The wealthy class is splitting into two elites, one national and threatened by outsourcing, the other international and profiting wildly from globalization.
The heady days of globalization, when it was the latest buzzword on business people’s tongues, now seem naive. These days the word elicits caution, tempered by new awareness of just how complex it is to do business on a global scale . In their new book, “The Kimchi Matters: Global Business and Local Politics in a Crisis-Driven World , ” Marvin Zonis, a professor of international political economy at the University of Chicago, and his co-authors Dan Lefkovitz and Sam Wilkin, take a hard look at how to make globalization work. What businesses often lack, they argue, is a clear understanding of local cultures and local politics. NEWSWEEK’s Laura Fording asked Zonis for his take on the current state of globalization.
India's call centers provide cheap English-speaking workers and high-speed telecoms to provide customer service helplines for companies around the world. They're a boon for India's army of job-hunting youth, but there is a murkier side to the industry.Governments across the globe, especially in China and India, are pouring unprecedented sums into building and improving their universities, and are spending millions more selling them abroad. Europe is unifying its fractured system to make it more ... Two different groups of symbolic analysts are emerging: national and global. Most symbolic analysts still work within a national economy, manipulating various kinds of symbols with the aid of computers. They're at the core of their nations' middle class— accountants, engineers, lawyers, journalists and other university-trained professionals.
SHOAIB MALIK'S BOO-BOO
Mike Ghouse, September 25, 2007
Sachin Tendulkar, the Master Cricketer is liked by one and all,
whoever understands and loves cricket loves him. He is simply the
best that there is and a legend to emulate for generations to come.
His religion does not matter to any one, his play does.
Shoaib Malik, Captain of Pakistan Cricket team has all the potentials
to be one of the best on the field, and he is equally liked by all.
However he has annoyed many a Cricket fans by singling out his fans,
rather shamelessly.
He should have thanked the people of Pakistan for getting him up
there that is the norm for any player to thank his nation. However
thanking Muslims of the world is dead wrong for many reasons, three
among them:
1)By appreciating his fans on the basis of religion is wrong. That
simply excludes all other fans who are not Muslims. That is not
sportsmanship.
2)Most of the Muslims around the world may not even know Cricket, let
alone him.
3)Like all other Cricket fans of India or the world, he may be
appreciated by Indian Muslims also for his skills, but they are no
fan of him when they have their own national team they cherish and
support.
I lost respect for yet another Cricketer, former skipper of India 's
team Azharuddin. He was corrupt and got caught, instead of being
ashamed of his own acts; he claimed he was singled out because he was
a Muslim. That is a total abuse of one's religion to earn sympathies;
he did not get any from Muslims or others.
The act of Shoaib Malik is his own and he should bear responsibility
for that. Cricket and Religion don't go together. We ask all the
Cricketers to play a good game, they can thank God and their nation
for it, but they should never exclude any fan from appreciation.
http://mikeghouse. sulekha.com/ blog/post/ 2007/09/shoaib- malik-s-boo-
boo.htm
[It's an undeniable fact that the Indian team included
Muslims, one became the "man of the match", and the
VVIP gallery had the leading film actor from India,
who's also a Muslim.
But it is also equally true that sporadic violence
between Hindus and Muslims broke out in different
corners of India, mercifully only a handful this time,
in the wake of the nail biting game.
But then, another interesting question the blogger did
not engage with. Whom did the South Africans of Indian
origin with Islamic faith/names support?
Was it Pakistan, or India?
Muslims from elsewhere, having no connection with
South Asia, perhaps hardly noticed.]
http://thecountervi ew.blogspot. com/2007/ 09/slip-of- tongue-or. html
Slip of the tongue or ...
".... I want to thank all people in Pakistan and
Muslims all over the world for their support..."
So said Shoaib Malik, Pakistan cricket team captain as
he expressed regret for letting down supporters in the
T20 World Cup last night.
In the euphoria of India lifting the first T20
championship and the well-deserved celebrations that
followed in India, Malik's statement may have got less
attention than it deserves. As
