If you have noticed the media reports recently regarding India's overseas tours and Shastri and Co. 'insensible' remarks about their performances, you could have seen Sourav Ganguly confronting them every time. The way things are being handled by Shastri and Co., it seems they are undermining the power of our legends. Tendulkar has always been a gentleman and kept mum even in the strangest of situations. Can't expect anything of note from Dravid and Laxman, so it has to be Sourav to become the voice of opposition. He could even become unpopular in the process but true fans of the game would know who is being right. CoA in a way hasn't helped Indian Cricket and BCCI don't even care what's going on 'in-the-field'. After such a meltdown (like England), they would either call upon New Zealand or Windies to come and rescue India's domestic calendar. If they are the best travelling team in the world, they must know what they have done in those travels could only pass as an infamous 'Shastri rhetoric' which at the end of the day, doesn't sound meaningful at all. It's all delusion and being delusional wouldn't benefit Indian Cricket.
Phillip Seymour Hoffman was one of the modern acting greats. You can always identify and isolate him in an ensemble cast. Give him just two-three lines in a 150-180 minutes long feature film and still he would enthrall the audience with his magic and aura and come out on top. People and critics alike bestowed countless superlatives upon him in a career spanning over more than two decades but whether any one of those adjectives ever managed to justify his cinematic craft, I seriously doubted. He was unprecedented and unsurpassed in the practice of cinematic artistry and thus emerged as America’s greatest character actor ever, period. Paul Giamatti is his worthy successor and hopefully he would calm and soothe our nerves with his finest performances in times to come in Phillip’s absence. Phillip ultimately was a show-stealer, a rabble-rouser, an aloof but a sympathizing marvelous human being who marveled in Hollywood though always residing at its sidelines. I first saw him playing a y
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