Enter ‘the Spirit of game’!

So after ‘behavior of the pitch’ and ‘humidity in the air’ we now have "spirit of the game," this poltergeist seems to prefer retired cricketers who are showing signs of being possessed. Classic symptoms (as this blogger could observe, of course further clinical investigation is needed) include frothing from mouth, verbal diarrhea, cantankerous stutterings, redness on the cheek (which could also be drunkenness), finger wringing so on. Uncouth fellow Bedi shows these symptoms on all matters of “gentleman’s game”. Frankly this blogger thinks all cricketers from 1940s to 1970s shouldn’t even be considered, it was a game of nawabs and zamindars. Indeed they do create records, as do children playing gully cricket. Difference being they don’t have statisticians working for them. When Nawabs and Ranjis and other small time highnesses were working on nuances of their batting techniques most Indians were sacrificing everything for freedom struggle. Some people had it so very easy (“and sail it up their ass” quoting Bukowski!).

This blogger don’t think Sri lankans did any wrong, it is unfortunate that bowler is punished. They played within the rule of the game, spirits can wait. Spirits can settle with Indian media and make a living. This blogger sincerely hopes these kinds of incidents increase, it does add new exciting dimension to the game, I guess that is a satisfying logic: controversy=excitement=saleabilty.

This blogger is very concerned about scoundrels who don’t allow audience to watch the game properly, they put obnoxious ads even while the game is on. It is such a bad experience, amazingly crude people (wonder where the spirit of game vanish on these matters?...I guess retired cricketers know where to put their precious eggs!. Anyway audiences are suckers in scheme of things). Talking about ads, there are too many these days, wonder who are the kind of people who take decisions on buying a car watching these morons in ads. I guess for that dumb people should have lots of money, and for that economy has to be booming. Market economy has lots of incentives for amazingly dumb people. The more you think about it crazier it gets.

Ye taxpayer's money kya hotha hai?

These days lots of furious people in TV channels and otherwise use words like ‘taxpayers money’ as debate clinchers, as ultimate justification for their condemnation. Sometime back a fellow asked me whether I save my tax. Why would I do that, I ask. Well you save money, he says. Just couldn’t understand that one. I gather the government also encourages tax saving mechanisms and schemes. There are people who are professional advisors on these matters, conjuring terms that doesn’t make any sense to me. Now the question here is if you save tax then who pays the tax?. As I understand saving and paying are contradictory state of affair.

This blogger has his 10% earning cut as TDS, I think that is fair. I always felt 10% of earning should go for charity or used by government for productive use of society. It is a fair rule. And I follow it (even if they hadn’t cut it as TDS I would have given it to the nearest orphanage), so why should I use tax saving mechanism?. Also those who are saving tax how are they paying tax and therefore claim to be taxpayers? Never could understand these…