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.
It's really hard to switch on to a different language from the one you have constantly been tinkering with. I grew so accustomed to writing in Hindi in last few days that it started dawning on me that I might never be good again with my English. So this is a tester, ladies and gentlemen. Yesterday, one of my movie group friends, an American by nationality, questioned my fondness of documentaries. I specifically wrote in one of my columns that documentaries demand your unwavering attention and once you gave 'that' to them, you are rewarded much more handsomely than a proper, narrative, fictitious film. My reasoning for believing so is that a documentary is an experience of a creative process. It doesn't get made to 'entertain' you. They are there to reveal something to you. They teach you something. You get overwhelmed by them. 'Racing Extinction (2015)' was one such documentary. I watched it in last couple of days. I couldn't complete it in one ...
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