Navjot Sing Sidhu - The LEGEND in himself....!!!

To understand what a 6ft. 2inches opening batsman from Punjab meant to Indian cricket team and to India, you had either to be born before 1999 or have a very good imagination. This was during the start of live cricket on television, during the implementation of bouncer rule, helmets, match refrees but before cricket as an INDUSTRY. Cricket was still a colonial past time and Indian cricketers were fringe players, who won more friends than matches. Then along came a giant in the most perfect disguise. By all appearance, Navjot Singh Sidhu was an orthodox mannered batsman, belonging to an othodox mannered age. The pleasing symmetry of his batting concealed a driven man and a hard nosed campetitor. He stood ahead of others, not because he had great skill but because he had greater pride - both personal and professional.

Sidhu became the fortess itself. Session by session, hour upon hour, crisis after crisis. Over a eight years cricketing career, he need to be in control of his game and his destiny took him past the ghostly, godly figures of Geoff Boycott, Martin Crowe, Sunny Gavaskar and his nearest contemporary Imran Khan to the very top of the game, the first batsman to hit sixes on every challenged ball. His legend grew through televison during the series at Sharjah and the gospel of the printed word and at same point, the runs and records creased to matter. Sidhu - the batsman became an icon, a symbolic representation of something larger. As long as he was around, we believed Indian would not succumb. When he at crease, India was not second class. 

In the memory, Sidhu is a crisp and fearless technician. As Indian cricket went from out-house to power-house, Gavaskar - the other legend said, " The sense of calm has induced in Sidhu, that first world certainly that progress was possible". Sidhu always remained in the fame. He served the cricket both international and domestic as a commentator, but is now serving the Indian government as a political leader of the opposition party(BJP) and has joined the Indian Television as a host of 'The Great Indian Laughter Challenge'. 

After retirement from Indian Cricket, he is still known for the ambiguities of his personality. His words on air and writing on print contains layers and allusions that have to be mined for meanings. If Sidhu's batting was described as impeccable or courageous, then the man himself today is called more often than not, complicated and courageous...!!!
 

Few lines for my mate

Hello buddy,

This is your newest but oldest friend writing some verses of immortility, expected to be preserved by you throughout your life. As always, I am not a conventional writer and in no way wants to flatter you. What I write is deemed by me as truth as 'Truth' for me is God and God is the sole faitor whom I fear and respect. You might be thinking, why I am not writing about you? I wouldnot enumerate your good points as you have plenty of them in you. The manner in which I have come in close turns with you is indeed inspiring for me.I would not just call you a friend but I have very well deemed you as something more than that, who is so sweet and caring. Your words for me were indeed heart rending and at time would short certainly before me if I ever forget you.  I consider all my happenings as God's acion so it was indeed God's will that we met and extended our friendship further. I am not only thankful but also feel pride in having you as my buddy and thankds to the Love and the care with which you treated me always. I am grateful to your feelings, which reflect, when you speak to me. All the help that you have provided me is considered by me as a 'tribute', which I pay to you and our friendship.

The feelings that I had felt for you cannot be spewed on the keyboard. Today I can proudly say that I had and will be having a friend like you, who has set high standards as a successful human being, the factor for which we all are striving hard. If by God's grace and by the blessings of my elders, I enable myself to become a worthy component of your future, I would certainly tribute and owe my success to your timely helps and warmth of your friendship. You might be familiar with my write ups, as you have went through many of them.

No human is PERFECT, Not You, Not I, NoOne...You have no bad points to be seen or percieved by a good natured man. I would always be yout friend if you consider me the same.

Do not get bored by my long speeches as a true friend speeks from the ranchor of his heart.!!!

Some Kool Facts abt my class..!!!

This is Mechanical 5th Sem
Come...Read...&...Conquer...!!!

Shooshhhh!!! What was that…???

Aaahhhhh….Nothing…..the chalk came cruise missing the head of ‘Chottu’, the most notorious boy of the class, and the person to do so was none other than our Maths teacher who go irritated when someone played pranks in the class. The ‘Bindaas’ boys of the class – Sumeet n Nishant is often called with different names (in oriya) by our Maths teacher, which half strength of the class cannot even try to understand and Nishant’s teeth is found out of his mouth always.

When the teacher is not in the class, the students raise their sound level to full volume, but when the teacher enters the class the perplexity between the brows thickens. A peagnant silence engulfs the class. Everyone tries to gauge the mood of the teacher and try to acclimatize one-self to the ensuing weather. But Vikas does not stop. He has an idea proof head. He continues to talk. He walks boldly where angels fear to tread.  As he sees the teacher he stops but he usually times it wrong. The two CR of our class-Arif and Sourav are often called by our newly joined and a very dynamic DEAN, but what happens next is the display of seven stages of fury enacted by the teacher. As always they both remain as cool as the nose of the little puppy, waiting for the tempest to pass.

Now its Maths period again. Its time for the genius and intellectuals of our class to get into action. Now the phrase ‘ Solve this problem and find the solution’ will ring into our ears frequently. Our Maths teacher gives us a problem and says ’Hey Swain(Prateek) find the answer’. Swain gives the answer with a devilish smile and looks around to see 73 other pairs of eyes looking enviously at him. Swain regains his composure and says ,”Yes Sir! The answer is ………..”  ”Good”, pat comes the reply from sir. This is enough to ignite the other intellectuals like Suraj, Sailesh, Shashi, Vibhor, Niraj, Vikey and others. They all too brave up and healthy competition starts among all. The answer flows one after another and now even the teacher feels obliged to restrict his “Goods” to Swain. But after all this there are people like Vaibhav, Himanshu, Praveen, Sudipta, Smeet and Prem who all are not moved at all. The still keep on admiring the wonderful nature by sitting always beside the window. We learn a lesson from about society. We don’t just live in society who says there is no partially. Justice is the prerogative of few favoured ones. But we always learn from the Japanese Proverb ---

“Blame yourself if you have no branches and no leaves,
Don’t blame the sun of Partiality.”

The hour glass has filled up and now its time for Maths teacher to leave.
The Little master of our branch ‘Kundan’ is none less than an enthusiastic boy. He keeps his body gyrating like the Newton of our class – Pranav. Kundan can rotate his body 180°. There is another guy existing in the branch , the Roll -1 of Mechanical 4^th Sem.  and he is none other than the 2^nd topper of 4^th Sem Exam-Abhijeet. He is the person who believes :-

“It takes both RAIN and SUNSHINE to make a RAINBOW”

Now its time to turn our eyes towards the other comrades of our branch where some of the intellects like Shrikant, Harsh, Ashish, Aakash, Ramesh, Aniket, Mayank, Ankit, Ezaz, Shushil and many more. But among all how can we forget the ‘Chuparustams ‘ of our class-Abhishek Jaiswal, Ravi, Kumar Ravi, Gaurav and Abhishek Purohit. They are no less than their forerunners. These bunch of people have their own ghetto where they have buildup igneous methods to ignore any intellectual inputs. The last heard was that they have quite succeeded in their mission. Keep Up Comrades!!!

Alas! In this ocean of intellects and geniuses, I forgot the ‘beauty with brains’ of our branch. I don’t remember many though. They in any class pay more attention in avoiding the attention of others on them. I better watch my mouth! They are though very few but they can give any pageant participant run for their money. But sorry I don’t wanna reveal their names

If you are looking for some most virtuous persons then your search would end on Mannu, Manoj, Trideep, Dharmendra, Rajat, Shuvam, Suvendra, Ashwini, Rohan, Avinash,  Shantanu, Ranjan , Shushant  and the very famous Vinay (so called ‘scientist’ of our class).

But the thing is these facts will be incomplete if I don’t mention the name of some outstanding guys of our branch – Atul, Manish, Anil,  Devendra, Manas, Ashish, Anand, Ashu, Vivek, Yogesh, Shyam,Satya, Prabhu and Anshu. They are the guys who really lend their shoulders who needs it.

While there are others like Shashank and Sourav who all feel very insecure to attend their classes but never found missing in the practical classes. And with all this how can you leave behind the famous band of Mech guys – It’s A Mistake(IAM) which constitutes of  Vivek JC, Vaibhav, DJ and the singer Himanshu. Your song was awesome. Well done guys!!! 

And among all this it would very unfair on girls part if I don’t mention their names. Doesn’t matter whether its Sheetal, Ayona, Shubra or any one of other three, they are also the part of this royal branch.

This is our branch, a branch of gems, geniuses, beauties and virtuous, and our teachers are Militant sort of persons who all keep washing our brains about our career and placement. Their voice falls in the deaf ears. They complete their washing but no effect. It may be because there were no brains.

There are many others in this branch. Its very difficult on my part to take the name of each individual So mates do forgive me if anyone of your names misses.

Now you all might be thinking that what role do I(Varinder) play in a branch of such high standards. Well then listen! Other than having a brain in English, I am a keen observer, otherwise who would have provided you with such a vivid, entertaining and interesting description….???