The best of times, The worst of times...

It has been long since I posted here. A lot has happened since then. Festivals have come and gone. Recession has grown bigger and even the most optimistic 'expert' is talking like a rotten cabbage. At work, people still don't know what will happen next. For one, everyone is either having 'team meetings' for nothing or a training programme to improve skills. Don't know when these skills will actually get used. There has been some good news in Cricket with India winning the Australian series at home convincingly. In India, the politicians are busy with their poll gimmicks. In the US, Obama promises to turn around the economy. In many ways, he is being looked upto as the saviour and the King of bad times. Poor Obama. It took so many of the best brains and business tycoons and financial experts to create this recession and we expect just one poor soul to turn it around and clean the shit.

I pity Saurav Ganguly. No, not because he retired or he had a bad phase before the new selection committee under Krish Srikanth wrote his swan song in the most fashionable way. I pity him because the guy is almost everywhere. And has answered almost the same questions on every news channel and in every newspaper and every magazine. In earlier days, say in 80s, when a Gavaskar retired, DD National ran a small documentary on him, a few national dailies wrote a farewell for him. Gavaskar dabbled in a few things before he soon found a foothold in the 'expert' columsn and commentary boxes as the new cable era and mushrooming media presence. Nowdays, its easy for even an Atul Wasson or some Tom, Dick or Harry who played a few International games to sit in the newsroom of any obscure news channel and tear the game apart which millions and billions of fans anyway do in their own way, sitting in their own drawing rooms. Its an era of 'too much' of everything. One thing happens and there are hundreds and thousands of experts giving their views as if we survived on them. Can't blame them though. They need to eke out a living and if speaking sh*t about a hot thing brings ration to their homes, why not!

There haven't been any great movies released off late. I haven't seen "Quantum of Solace" and I am not a big fan of Bond movies anyway but from what I hear, its the worst and the most thanda Bond movie of all times. A friend told me, 'Golmaal Returns' is a horrible movie, plain stupid but it still is a SUPER HIT. Its like selling junk food on the streets. If you have your luck and a 100,000 people eat your food and fall ill within minutes of your opening shop, you've done your job, even if those 100,000 people are ailing in the hospitals with a case of food poisoning. In a country where a pot pourri like 'Om Shanti Om' can become the biggest grosser of all times, anything can happen!

I am finding ways to rejuvenate myself in these sad times. If you too are having some innovative ideas which worked for you, lemme know!