India lost second Border / Gavaskar trophy match against Australia after losing its last 3 wickets in 6 remaining balls of match – thanks to one-sided decisions of Umpires Steve Bucknor and Mark Benson during whole match.

When you find that two of the players which were NOT OUT but were declared OUT in first innings and in the same way, during second innings of same team, four key players which were clearly NOT OUT but given OUT by the match umpires Steve Bucknor and Mark Benson, you know that somewhere something is going wrong.

Also, when opposition team is favored by umpires for their batting, you start feeling hatred towards them which is natural.

And in such situation when our poor team loses match, more than being sorry for them, if someone abuses umpires feeling frustrated for them, you feel better to support him.

The second test match was total blunder full of umpiring mistakes. Umpires which are taken with utmost request in a match, the Gods of match, looked too small in this test. Steve Bucknor is well known for his sick behavior towards Indian team and he was atop in this game when India lost a well-expected Draw match. Then a good sport lover of game is supposed to be angry for these two pranksters of match who thought that they can even prove the match cameras wrong.

Throughout the match, Australians were appealing and umpires were raising their fingers for players like Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Saurav Ganguly etc. Some of batsmen tried to show disapproval to umpires’ decision but of no output. And this all was for making Australia achieve their 16^th consecutive win. Not even single Australian felt sorry for wrong umpiring decisions (I was expecting it from Australian Captain Ricky Ponting at least).

Result…I am no more going to believe that umpires are always right – something my dad taught me during my childhood while making me understand this game!

Here are the videos of umpires clearly favoring Australian team -

IND vs AUS 2nd Test,Sydney-Day1- 4 Poor decisions by Umpires

Nonsense Umpiring Ganguly Out 2nd Test Ind v Aus @ Sydney

Poor Umpiring Day 1 2nd Test Ind v Aus @ Sydney 2008

Lucky Ponting Day 1 2nd Test Ind v Aus @ Sydney 2008

Poor Umpiring – Indian vs Australia 2nd Test 2008

More news results on same topic -

• Australia beat India in Sydney thriller
• BCCI to complain against umpiring
• Umpire gaffes hurt as India tries to push for victory

Update (January 07, 2008): Thwarted BCCI has decided to put forward suggestion for change in ICC rules so that there shouldn’t be any doubt about Umpiring decisions for the teams visiting Australia. Here are the proposed guidelines –

A situation which can appear to be hard to believe.

I received a mail from Anish in morning with the subject an appeal for help. It was about his colleague from previous firm – Aricent (formerly known as Flextronics and Hughes). The text of email went as follows -

Hi all

A dear friend of mine, Shantanu Goel(from Chandigarh) has met with a very unfortunate personal tragedy.
your help could not be more welcome for him and his family at this time of crisis.

please don't hesitate to forward this to anyone you think can help.

Blog link:
http://iamhuman.blogspot.com/2007/03/desperate-call-for-help.html

you can mail him (shantanu goel) at shantanu.goel [at] gmail.com

He is working in Aricent, Gurgaon.

And then went the Blog post CAP (Copy And Paste).

I visited the blog myself and happened to read the post titled with the same subject line – A DESPERATE CALL FOR HELP.

The post describes a story which has happened to guy named Shantanu and his family. Shantanu is a Software Engineer presently working at Aricent, Gurgaon. He belongs to Chandigarh and his family resides there. He writes that his brother, who is working at Bangalore, was married to a girl in November 2005 (no mention of love or arrange…so don’t think about that perspective). Soon after the marriage of his brother, their family started receiving different un-expected demands (which ranged from money to control over his brother) from the in-laws of his brother. After fulfilling them for sometime, when they started refusing the unacceptable demands like signatures of his brother on blank papers and demand for lakhs of rupees, the family was threatened for life, from the in-laws. And very soon, they were attacked by in-laws family at their home. There is very pitiful description of the situation when the family members of victim were physically assaulted at their own home. How can the role of police (Indian Police to be specific) be ignored in such cases. Police arrived after sometime of the attack but it kept standing outside and watching the drama. It was only after members of community tried to interfere in the matter that police intercepted into the situation. And at police station, instead of taking any action against louts and filing any FIR, the victims were accused for causing this traumatic situation. There was no consideration of hundreds of witnesses.

It happens only in IN where police, instead of taking it as their duty to protect people, takes it as their right to harass, threaten and loot their own people (who pay salary to police through their own pockets in form of taxes) – truly said that in IN, Police Raj is equivalent to Gunda Raj. It is only because of few honest police officers that Indian Police still has managed to maintain its image at some level.

About India

The following paragraph from news on Rediff summarized the whole reservation issue. No one is going to be in benefit or loss be it the reserved class or the creamy layer but political parties will get the benefit in elections -

My opinion is, between the media and the rest, everybody is making too much noise about reservation. Political personalities use reservation as one more plank to catch votes. Their heart is not bleeding for the poor. Their heart is bleeding for the next election and votes.

 

The people who oppose reservation are doing so without understanding what it is. Please tell me, if the number of seats is adequate for everybody, where is the question of reservation hurting anybody? You say, the value of an IIT degree will come down.

 

Listen, the man who employs can find out whether you are recruited on merit or reservation in five minutes. So, why are you making so much noise about reservation?

 

You mean it is unnecessary?

 

Yes, it is unnecessary. I need an answer to the question, is reservation necessary? They have had 15 per cent reservation for scheduled castes, and 7.5 (per cent) for Scheduled Tribes for the last 45 years. Have all the Scheduled Castes and Tribes come up?

 

That is because the creamy layer is grabbing all the benefits.

 

So, the creamy layer has come up. The same thing is going to happen to this 27 per cent too. In the case of OBCs too, all the benefits will be cornered by a small number of people only. The other large number of people will not get any benefits.

 

But nobody is bothered about it because taking away the creamy layer is something even Veerappa Moily (the Congress leader heading the committee studying reservations) is not willing to do.

 

He said, ‘We have left that to the government.’ I don’t understand this. How can he leave it to the government? If he is asked to look into it, he must say, either there is a creamy layer problem and this is the way to tackle it, or he must say, there is no creamy layer problem.

I came across this wonderful post which analyzes the reservation in this country posted originally by Ajay Kumar from BHEL, Haridwar. Just pay some attention if you are really serious about reservation being introduced by Congress -

Let us analyse the merit in arguments in favour of reservations one by one.

1. It is to undo the generations of injustice done by forward classes.
2. It will remove caste bias.
3. It provides equality of opportunity.
4. How can you assume that 80% of population does not have merit?
5. It is not politically motivated.

Now the pointwise analysis:

1. If the injustice done by previous generations is to be undone by punishing the next one, then we may hang the son for murder done by his father. By sticking to past, only hatred can be perpetuated, not justice.
2. How can it do that (remove caste bias) when, we are certifying the individual as backward based on his caste. Rather than removing caste bias it institutionalize & perpetuates it. It introduces branding in humans!!
3. How can that be true (equality of opportunity), when OBC although can apply in general category seats, while general category can’t do so in reserved seats.
4. If they do have merit, then quota is not required!! In fact is is really not required for talented ones, whatever may be there caste. I personally know many of the so called OBCs, who made it to IITs despite being from ordinary families. It made them proud of their achievements, got respect, motivated them to excel, which now quota system is going to deprive them off.
5. Was there any agitation for it? Was this the top priority, over and above population, illiteracy, law & order, Kashmir issue etc? If it is not politically motivated then why not start the reservation system with parliamentary seats. In fact if at all reservation is going to benefit, it is in representation in policy making bodies like parliament, where this may help in ensuring that law does not discriminate against castes & rules are framed keeping in mind the humans & not brand of humans.

Innovation, talent, creativity does not thrive on spoon feeding, it strive on recognition, stimulation & encouragement given by system, least of all discrimination based on caste. But first these traits have to be there in an individual. System must provide for better infrastructural support and aids for underprivileged, which solely depends on their economic conditions. The caste based bias is going to be removed only by upliftment of intellectual ability and not spoon feeding. It will only corrupt the intellect, won’t get respect, perpetuate the discrimination.

Yes, I accept it that there has been significant drop in the number of posts being posted by me in regular intervals – thanks to all those dear irregular reader who still want me to keep posting the stuff .

I wanted to share few good reasons for drop…

One, I am a tech freak and want to share latest in tech than sharing already existing apps or all just to increase the number of posts. I like to discuss the apps which are promising. And there hasn’t been much movement that I have been noticing in this space for last couple of days and it is obvious drop in a space of geek like me when there isn’t much motion in tech-space.

Another major category of my personal interest is Personal and I like things which pertain to me, liked by me et al. Well, there has been tremendous changes happening in my personal life (which of course include my work life) that I haven’t been getting much time to discuss all that…yes that is true…your obligations, duties and work makes you get busier than anything else…sometimes and I am not any exception. OK, I accept that finally I am busy…be it the work (I am still learning GIANT stuff, to add GIANT qualification/talent, believe me it is true, in my portfolio…a proof of learning is that although I am learning and at the same time, I am interviewing people on the same domain – I know it is overwhelming:oops:). So i am in great learning/working phase. On personal front, I am enjoying a lottt cas I can’t live without that…Enjoying life is my motto. Then if you want to get out time out of such busy phase, it is justtttttttt. So apologies on writing front but I love writing.
Well, I have been roaming a lot with friends, enjoying as always, laughing at home – be it getting deep thinking lessons from our playboy/casinova – Rajinder, 2 great engaged roomies trying, helping & encouraging me all the time to get in with someone or my on-site buddy’s memories which makes me feel that I am not only of its kind in this world .

I am not going to quit but going to slower down for a couple of months…I know how does it feel but them, I get reminded of a poster in Kansal’s (Anand Mohan Kansal from Sangrur, Punjab – my batch mate) room from which I used get inspired-

I know I am running late, but still I am running

I am never going to say die…I am hard enough.

And yes, still I am listening to latest muzic. Just today, I downloaded muzic of Aap Ki Khatir and Wo Lamhe.

Today, when more than 50% people of CE were busy in interview, Sid & I were busy to review next sensation of of CE – as referred to by people on the way! Raji you got the choice . I want to discuss sometime about my unique colleagues cum friends…
Injustice wave is back…and students are locked in jails – The India!