I hate love stories

Reading  'Diary of a Single Girl' in 'Times Life',  one article really caught my attention. It was about the girl being getting an opportunity to complete her dream of becoming a Super Model. She was already a successful model. But getting into ivy league she would have require to don 'The Bikini'. So informed this to her Boy Friend. Her BF and she argued over an hour. The BF said, 'What would his family think of a girl who wears Bikini?'. At the end the BF told her, 'You have to decide one, Career or him'. This came up even when the guy knew that girl was a model when he proposed her.

Reading this article I realized this ain't only her problem. Everyone of us who has been in relationship associate ourselves with the above article. How many times in your relationship you have faced that awkward situation where you have to choose between 'Your Loved one' and 'Your Passion'. ?

'Love' is best when unconditional. The moment we start putting conditions it becomes more of a compromise. Why have we made it a complicated, messed up drama. So messed up that we have to say 'I Hate Love Stories'.

Imagine you fell in love with someone who is really good at talking. You loved the way he talked with you, your friends, your parents, your siblings and others around him. But once into a relationship you only stop him/her and tell her not to talk with some Tom, Dick, Harry or some Jane, Jennifer or Janice. The thing that made you fall you in love with your partner is the thing you want him/her to stop doing. Of course when that happens, the epic statement comes up saying 'You have Changed, you are no more a person whom I met couple of years back'.

How painful it is to give your passion for the only person who should be most happy to see you pursuing it?

How many times in relationship you have given up talking to your Best Friend because your partner didn't liked it?

How many of you have given up your dreams just because your partner was not convinced?

Love was meant to support you through your thick and thin and ride with you all life long to support you. But with all such pre-requisite , it is more of a burden that makes you slow down or just give up your journey. Why are you forcing me to scream 'I HATE LOVE STORIES'

Did India really deserve no.1 test ranking??

After the dismal performance in the current series against England, all the critics of Indian Cricket are out of the closet. Some blamed the team selection, some blamed the shot selection, some blamed it on cricket over dose.  

But the fact remains that India simply lost to a better team who were better prepared for this series. While on the other side India were riding high on World 2011 Victory and of course the mental & fatigue of the BCCI cash cow 'IPL'. As Ganguly said "You cannot just turn up and win Test series against good sides."

For the South African series, 5 players were sent to South Africa  to get acclimatised to the conditions, but only one practice match as part of preparation for the England series simply shows the seriousness with which Indian team took this series.

On December 6, 2009, millions of Indians were united in celebration as their team had ascended to the top of the ICC test rankings. But the with it came the responsibility to retain it.

West Indies were the undisputed king from 1975-76 to 1994-95, winning 72 and losing 21 of the 149 Tests it played. Australia, from 1995 to 2009, won 107 and lost 32 of the 166 Tests. Australia were officially ranked for eight long years, ever since the Test championship was introduced in 2001.

But India, since it became No 1, has played 23 Tests, winning 11 and losing six. In this period India has not played a series in Australia & New Zealand. While in South Africa we managed to draw the series(1-1) and against no.7 ranked West Indies, we managed to win the series 1-0 where the no.1 ranked team didn't even try chasing when the team required 86 of 90 balls. While against England we are starting at the White wash. Is this the sheer dominance that a no.1 team is suppose to exhibit?

When West Indies & Australia dominated the arena, they were merciless, brutal and other teams literally feared them. But for India, we are always the underdogs.

Apart from our famed batting line-up, our Fast bowlers sans Zaheer looks listless. We are called the country of spinners but Harbhajan despite repetitively failing to impress continues hold his position in the side. Forget about the dream of a fast bowling all-rounder and a genuine quick bowler.  Apart from this even if one player is injured we always have excuse that we didn't have our complete team.

Amidst all these BCCI would assert their dominance in their cricketing world using the power of Money. All of us know that technology is not fool proof but it aids in better decision making. But for reasons known to BCCI we don't use it. And people say that money doesn't speak. 

About the no.1 ranking I am sure BCCI will arrange a couple of series with Sri lanka & Bangladesh for India to retain it.

I am not against Indian Cricket just because they lost one series, but it is the way they played.

To be a Champion you have to have that might, which simply is missing whether we remain no.1 or not. We will never create the awe the mighty West Indies or the ruthless Australian team had.