The coldness was par above to describe and for a man who wakes up too early on a full moon day it’s very very tough. It’s one of those mornings when I think I am getting too lazy and see myself gained two more kilograms of weight. This leads me making a resolution of getting up early and jog in the morning. To be honest it doesn’t last more than couple of days from the day resolution made. As I was fully determined this time my mind was suggesting me to run but my body didn’t due to the cold weather.  Still respecting my mind’s orders gave a brisk start to my run up. Saw a bunch of old men who were walking in and around the park. After their little bit of hard work in their 100m walk they sat up on a bench in the park. Fortunately I stood nearby them doing my so called lazy exercises. They were very happy and were discussing a topic of their childhood. They were laughing loud remembering their good old days. I didn’t hear what exactly they were speaking. But listened to some in between when I used to relax after my exercises. The old man in the middle looked like a retired mathematics professor. Appeared little like the character of “John Nash” which Russell Crowe played in “The beautiful mind”. He got little emotional and started speaking “I am very happy with my life so far and I had all the experiences. Got love from people around and I lived my life the way I liked it . But my son didn’t understand that I was a good dad too. I loved him and when I started being proud for having such a son. He said that I don’t fit in his style of high living so he is not living with us anymore. Is this what I destined to be for making him a good man and a good citizen”? His friends started to console him saying it’s exactly what life is.  And they began with stating their own statements of life. I heard some of them, learnt some new things and took my way back.

Sending the parents to old aged homes have become a trend and what’s more disturbing is in a recent survey shows people who send their parents to old age homes have increased dramatically. And many stay away from their parents even though they stay in the same locality.

It disturbed me a lot. I had lived my most of years with my grandparents. In fact to be honest till today am more attached to my grandma and grandpa.  How can there be man who doesn’t bless his son with the love of his grandparents. A kid expects a person who is patient enough to be with to answer his stupid questions. He expects someone to interestingly listen to his boring pencil/toy stories from his school. A Father is the busiest person in the home he can’t fill it and mom’s busy convincing everyone. It has to be the old heads in the house.

A man/woman really gets his rebirth when he/she becomes a dad/mom. They spend their entire career to provide a life to their kids. Their dreams change from “I will become” to “my son/daughter will become”. Then when they get old they need to look at a photograph sitting in an old age home and say he used to be with us, he used to call me dad, he was my son.

If your parents doesn’t reside with you or away from you. Who will teach your children how to be patient?  To love in the face of anger, and to develop compassion, gentleness, and respect for old people. Who will tell them stories, and spend time talking to them, holding their hand, laughing and joking with them. How they will learn that death and dying is a natural part of life and living, and that sometimes we lose ourselves in the process. Most of all who will teach your children what life is in a gentle way, that you learnt it from your grandparents and parents.

Please stop sending your parents to old aged homes. Revert back the love in their old age that your parents showed towards you in your young age.

Don’t spend all your life just earning a piece of paper to gain comfort. It’s necessary but without your parents who made you what you are today, money will be of no use. Gain the comfort of love through gentleness. Respect your parents, love your parents.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Respect old people, Be kind, Be polite and Be human.

  I heartily thank my readers for their phone calls, messages and emails for being absent for a while in my blogging site. It means me a lot. I will keep on blogging, I was busy and lazy just like one of you.

ramanujan ……….\raam/

Couple of years back,

It was a lousy Friday and I was perfectly prepared to go to birur for a two day off. I was waiting for the intercity train in Yeswanthpur railway station. Like never before I was 25 minutes early from the train timings. I was alone standing in a corner of the platform reading a weekly magazine. A guy walked towards me looking suspiciously and thinking as though he has seen me before. He was continuously staring at me scratching his cerebrum for something, which I too didn’t get. After some time finally he made his mind to come up to me and clarify his doubts.

He said “are you from JNV Ckm?” Happydent smile on my face “Yes am “.

He replied “am your junior “and started telling many of my batch mates names. The only worst part of it was even after so many names his lip movements didn’t suggest that he has got my name.

After around 10 to 12 names he asked my name saying I have forgot yours? When your junior comes up to you and start recognizing many of your classmates and not you? –This feeling can only be felt not expressed in words. After hearing my name he started thinking again and suddenly like Archimedes’s eureka he uttered “chicken pox patient”.  That word brought back smiles on my face. I felt like an Indian cricket player ignored from a series then called back for the next one. After few minutes train arrived and we both departed.

History behind  “Chicken pox patient”- Probably I guess just three or four days before my 2^nd PU board exams should start, small kind of skin rashes started occurring on my body. Due to physics exams being the first my brain has already had rashes of Physics. This was an addition to that. Immediately I left JNV and went to CKM to seek a doctor with my family. After some treatment it was found chicken pox which had attacked me. With a wonderful treatment in ckm by Dr Chandrashekar, he inspired me like anything before. Came back to navodaya and reported with the nurse madam as it was a contagious disease. I was transferred to the guest house. I was isolated from everyone and made to live alone. Being together for seven years and at the crucial time living alone was quite disturbing. It was in front of my physics madam’s house. She was also worried as it was physics exam first. Only people I had around was physics madam (Mrs. Rekha Ashok), Ashok Sir and their two beautiful children alek and avinash.  Even though I would have got food from the mess, she had informed the authorities that she will take care of my food intake. She used to cook and take care of me in between her hectic schedule. In between all these she used teach me physics and kept on motivating me to come out of this disease hangover and perform well. I was never ever motivated so well in my life than in those 20 days. Her sons used to be always with me playing and trying out different pranks. Ashok sir used to come and motivate me always to stay out of the embarrassment of having a disease during board exams. Only thing I remember doing was sleeping a lot and have couple of checkups daily. But the inspiration and great support from Rekha madam and Ashok sir made me courageous to perform well despite of all these things. They taught not only physics but lot more about life. She is the best teacher I have ever learnt from in my entire life. It will fall short if I express my gratitude towards them in just words. Like the quote below

“One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind”.  I had never got 90+ marks in physics exams in my entire life but she made me to get that in my final exams.

As the days of exams passed my entire subject teachers came to me and clarified my doubts.  Especially Uday nayak Sir, Madhusudhan Sir, vijaya madam, Chidanand Sir and the great Mahesh Sir. My maths sir mahesh was never affected by chicken pox, so he used to have an antibiotic to just come to me and teach. I am grateful to every one of them and will be in my entire life.I don’t think in any of the high paid boarding schools or in country’s prestigious residential schools you have a treatment like this when you are down with a disease during your board exams.

One of the best government initiatives till date is to build Navodaya.  It is a unique place and a tailored made one for one for students to spend their beautiful life. Thanks to Rajeev Gandhi for creating it.

I am determined to give back to my school what I have learnt in all the possible ways in the coming years.

“Navodaya” a word that brings joy and happiness to my life.  Very happy and proud to be a part of it.

A year for my blog as it started in march 2010, this was the 13th post. Thank you all for your fabulous support and advices.
ramanujan ……….\raam/

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. Knowing ourselves is the first thing we need to do when we get into corporate lives. Here is my views on strength and weakness……….have a read.

From the time I have started schooling I hardly remember a teacher who didn’t had a word about my handwriting. It all started from 2^nd standard. As till that time every one of us was busy learning how letters and alphabets would be and it’s representations. After that I got an awesome response to my handwriting.  Many even told mine as the worst they have seen in their entire life. And they even said it’s very hard to pass SSLC with the kind of calligraphic talent I had. I tried my best to make mine as the “best- it didn’t” then to “Good- it too didn’t” then had to negotiate with bad and worse. Even though after writing thousand pages of copywriting it stayed the same as before. For some years I used to enjoy the publicity all though it was in a negative way. After that many around me started understanding my writings rather than complaining. It made my life little better.

Handwriting-It still remains one of my weaknesses from past 15 years. Being as a part my life it had even made me feel happy sometimes as well.

Following is an instance in which my handwriting became my strength to handle the situation…

It was just 5 days we had been to Madhya Pradesh Navodaya (JNV BoHANI). As part of the routine there ragging had begun with me and Prathap being called to senior’s room. We didn’t know what they were calling for??  Only thing we knew was there’s goanna be a work. One among them gave us a new record book and a Biology textbook with instructing us to write few pages of them in the record. Thinking that we are going write neatly and he can fetch good marks in record from the same. I tried my best to convey that I don’t have the best of the handwriting. But they didn’t believe saying “we have heard your names being spoken by couple of teachers surely you both are goanna have good handwriting”. In spite of arguing we left the room as I knew clearly that he is going to have an experience of my talent within few days. Mine was bad I decided it to make it even bad and the result turned out to be the worst.

After some days..

I was happily having roti at the Mess. Many came in search of saying “I had been called by the senior with my biology notes immediately”. Within a span 2 Rotis over seven came and told the same. I knew the exact reason and took my notes and walked towards his room with head held high. I moved till his room entrance as a hero. Later my body actions resembled a comedy actor bending my back fearing to their huge physiques. He snatched my notebook and saw the unique scripts of mine and got to know my talent (late realization). Finally he came to know my hard work and dedication in the field of calligraphy. Then he shouted at me saying why didn’t you tell that day only? After some useless conversation he handed his record to me saying “I’ll get a new record you only keep this ..!! “. After this incident none of them gave me anything to write throughout my stay there. They kept concentrating on others for completing their records. My weakness had turned out to become my strength there.

This story wasn’t meant promote my experience or my earlier life. It was just meant to say” The strength of a person is often weighed by how they deal with their weaknesses” .

It’s better to adapt to our own weakness if it doesn’t get better after so many attempts. So that it allows us to improve our strengths and achieving something great in the field which suits us. Moreover weakness doesn’t over shadows thousands of your strengths if do adapt and continue rather than struggling to overcome a single weakness.

The most common thing we do while heading up to interview is to prepare for the questions regarding our strengths and weakness. We do often don’t tell the truth to interviewers by saying “poor at lying” and “taking responsibility” as our weaknesses to impress them. It’s the best thing we could do as truth has preferably lost its value between increasing Gold and Silver Rates. And to talk about strengths “the most googled sentences about strengths becomes ours in minutes and gets our own touch. Its part and parcel of life as we do it to survive among the best. But to succeed we need to recognize both our strength and weakness. Weakness needs to be treated and strength needs to be appreciated. Both of them together define our lives. Giving much importance to our strengths makes us successful despite of many weak points.

Who asks sachin questions about technology and APJ abdul Kalam about cricket. Isn’t ??.

I need to thank the person who discovered this print media and digitalized it otherwise no one would have read my articles if it had been in my own handwriting…..

thanks for reading

ramanujan ……….\raam/

We are all looking forward for a wonderful year to fulfill our dreams. Let’s utilize this precious moment to build ourselves and make necessary changes which are necessary in life to be on top.

Whenever we are looking forward to a New Year only two things will be stuck in our mind. Obviously they are parties and resolutions. As we all know we are not considering the latter one as important as the first one. The solution is not just making a resolution it’s about fulfilling it completely without any compromise. The perfect solution is to analyze ourselves about the weakness and strong aspects we have. And based on the results of them let’s make resolutions accordingly. No matter what the time says or day says you are the only person responsible for your success all others play an anchor role that’s all.

Below here my words speak about a resolution….hope it helps any one of you !!

Whenever I try to recollect those beautiful memories of my childhood I only get some major incidents and moments which were special. What really I miss is those kiddish moments when I used to think having a hero pen was as great as having a Porsche Car. The pride I used to carry while carrying a hero pen and all these moments are remembered only after scratching my cerebrum for long time but still I don’t get the mentality I used to be and state of my mind in my childhood. When I was around 12 years of age I thought taking up writing diary as a New Year resolution. But it didn’t last for more than 3 to 4 days. After Jan 5^th resolution was broken and was thinking to take up this the coming year as a resolution. This continued for so many years. But this time it will not remain as just a resolution but it would be a part of my routine. I need all you people to join in and take up writing diary as a resolution.

As we all know life is live each and every moment and enjoy it. No one stays here more than 100years let’s make the time worth and moment we lived worthy as well. A page daily about our day in diary marks our steps of life. When you look back and see after some years it will be a worth read. You can recollect your sad, happy and precious moments. Moreover we find our way of thinking and taking things around is different from time to time. Memories are precious we need to preserve it. We only build our life style according our career requirements in between which we forget to live our life. We may find watching a BMW exciting in some of the age and years later owning it becomes common when you earn enough money. To enjoy all these precious moments take a resolution of writing a page of diary daily. Which also improves your memory power and makes you think of the things occurred twice which gives you a brighter insight towards some sensible matters.

Am starting to write a page for a day it’s one of my resolutions for 2011. Hope you people too join and take this resolution and make our lives memorable.

A Happy new year to all my readers…..thanks for your fantabulous support in 2010 hope it continues in 2011 as well.

ramanujan ……….\raam/

It was a normal Sunday but memorable for many of the people around. The annual sports day of a school is always filled with excitement and enthusiasm. The similar condition was here and parents were excited more than children. The enjoyment was par above all ages even the people in 60s were jumping by seeing their kids’ performances. Every kid got an equal amount of support whether he wins or loses. Here it was a bit strange as participation was considered as a victory. Unlike in some places where we see winning and losing as DO OR DIE.

Till afternoon the field events and group games were held.      At 4pm running events kicked off with girls 100m. The next was boys 100m, infact it was considered as the main event. It was the last event of the evening. The race started with a whistle and waving flag.  At the midpoint a guy fell off due an obstacle from a stone.

In normal cases what happen??? The guy whose is in the front wins the race and come with others and shake the hands with the fellow whose was down and consolidate him right..

But here it didn’t happen.

As soon as the guy fell down everyone in the race turned back and came near him and all of them lifted him and took him over the finishing line. People around came and congratulated the whole boys team applauding their act. Literally everyone’s eyes filled with tears.

Guys this was an incident occurred in a mentally challenged children’s school…..all the students are disabled in one or the other aspect.

But I think we are disabled because we don’t have this kind of great humanity inside us as it’s filled up of egos, hat redness and selfishness. We just think about our success or our victory but not about others isn’t?? They are far ahead than us in many aspects. It’s clear from the slogan below “we have abilities not disabilities”

There are many disabled persons in below poverty line category. Many NGOs are helping these kind of people. Anyways where ever possible in our small ways let’s help. It’s one among the dreams of my life to help the handicapped.

It’s estimated that 3 out of every 100 people are born with some type of mental or physical disability, but yet our society has not yet learned how to deal with this population. Perhaps it’s because some of the public doesn’t know how to treat these people. The next time you happen to see someone who is mentally/physically challenged, smile at them, say hello and let them know they are an important part of our society.

Let’s do a bit in helping the handicapped/disabled ones.

“Not for the reason that they are helpless…..help them for the reason that they can do wonders with cooperation…”

ramanujan ……….\raam/

The condition is getting worse here in Karnataka which was earlier at least favorable to live. It’s being named the next Bihar from the media and press all over country. It’s hampering the brand Karnataka, which has got a respected and prestigious history. The outlook magazine’s latest edition quoted Karnataka as “INDIA’S most corrupt state????

This is possibly the best gift from our politicians and corrupt people to the honest people of state on the eve of Kannada rajyotsava. The MLAs are selling themselves for crores of rupees. They have completely forgotten about the platform they have been provided to serve people in search of their personnel comfort. If these people are really into this just for making money why can’t they get into business??……Then they will be at least respected for being a billionaire rather than being suspect of corruption. Even though there are honest people in politics, they are very few.

Moreover  we the citizens (aam admi) of the state/country are responsible for electing these corrupt people. Many of citizens have even forgotten that it’s their right to vote. Some sell their vote for money and others vote the representative of their religion/caste. These small things lead into handing the leadership to an incapable person.

The Indian media is doing a decent job of keeping a continuous track of everything around. But some of the Medias are just eying the TRP rating over well being of the country. Some responsible media is doing their job to perfection.

Some of the remedies to these unending problems are

—>We the Youth of country need to act to the situation properly and take responsibility by these corrupt and ruthless politicians.

—>Army retied officials and honest people served in different sectors for the country need to be given ticket and preference in all elections.

—>The uneducated and people who are just for power shouldn’t be given the power at higher levels. And moreover let’s vote for the right and responsible candidate.

If all these remedies are too far from being practical, at least let’s make sure that we will not end up as a corrupt human being. Let’s stop irrigating the roots of corruption in our surroundings and do a bit in converting corrupt people to honest ones. It would be plain ruthless if I go and end up being a corrupt after asking everyone to be honest and trustworthy to the country. I am promising here by that in any case I will not end up being a corrupt in my whole life. As according to me “It is not enough to just write on an issue or on the hopelessness heaped on someone, one has to try and reach out to make a difference“

Come let’s do a bit in building nation…..our NATION!!

ಎಲ್ಲರಿಗು ಕನ್ನಡ ರಾಜ್ಯೋತ್ಸವದ ಹಾರ್ದಿಕ ಶುಭಾಶಯಗಳು- Proud to be a kannadiga

ramanujan ……….\raam/

Once again ganguly takes front foot and hits the ball out of the park……these were the days I started to watch cricket, think cricket and dream cricket.

…..many years back…once upon a time in birur

Using the best glue (fevicol) I had pasted a poster of ganguly in my room. It was an off field photo of him in which he wore a blue shirt and jeans with his spectacles. I had got it as a birthday gift from my neighbor. She knew that I like dada a lot and she had picked it up and gave me when she came back from her college. At that age nothing would have been a better gift than this one for me.

After around two years……….. Later

I was out of the town for holidays for a month. The entire house was painted newly. The painter was informed to remove the poster safely but he has failed to do it. It was really difficult for a 10 year old boy accept the fact that his hero has been thrown out of his home. I was completely upset with the incident occurred. My family members knew exactly how much I was attached to that poster. They had got the right thing to convince me- a match of India the very same day. Ganguly was walking with sadagopan ramesh to open the innings. I was made to sit in front of TV saying “don’t worry we will get a new poster of the great sourav ganguly”. In fact it was the first time they had pronounced his name correctly. I forgot everything watching him play. I have seen thousands of ganguly’s photos till now but not the one I had pasted in my room.

I was just enjoying watching sourav play in the field. I was glued to TV whenever he is on the field. I was getting disappointed when I see him get out early, that day would be a bad one for me too. I was seeing myself in him when he used to play in the field. His passion, aggression, determination and self-confidence which he had while playing impressed me a lot. I used to try his square cuts and pull shots while playing but couldn’t last more than 5 to 6 balls.

I still remember days of defending him while arguing with friends when he was out of the team INDIA.Moreover than cricket greats like kumble,sachin,sourav,laxman,dravid and sehwag have taught the human values and done a great job of being a role model for the youngsters.

Till date I like dada and support him because the pride and passion with which he plays and carries. He taught the team to play like a team, he brought in d players d attitude 2 win n showed d world that India has d capability 2 win overseas He is a true champion, he built the team and incorporated the attitude of winning in MEN IN BLUE.

Hoping this time in IPL4 we can see dada lifting the trophy!!!!!

DADA ROCKSS……..forever @#@#@#@# one day i will meet him for sure….

ramanujan ……….\raam/

According to WHO statistics, one person commits suicide every 40 seconds. Suicide rates all over the world have increased by 5- 62% in the last two decades.  Hardly any country is immune to this disease. What’s disturbing is that more young people are killing themselves than ever before.

Suicide news has become most of all the common news we hear daily. Most of all many students commit suicides after hearing their results. We need to understand that if and only one fails then only the other can be called pass. Failure means you are just down not dead. Give a harder punch to your work; to make it better you will certainly get desired results. Even the pioneers of IT industry-Steve jobs and bill gates are drop outs from college. Marks only never make a good and successful human being. Thrust of life and hungriness towards success only can make a person successful. Some hang themselves because of love failures and some because of financial failures. There is a solution for each and every problem. Keep yourselves busy in finding the solution rather than thinking of dying. Just think of it once-“if you are at the age of 10 and your loved one had left your school what you would do??”

We would have gone to our mom and sit in front of her crying and tell I lost one of my good friends isn’t??

Same way go near your loved ones and explain everything. There is always a person in every one’s life who can wipe our tears. It’s better to shed tears than to sacrifice life. It’s better to be a child sometimes which helps us in big time.

People who don’t have eyes, ears and legs are living with high standards than us. They do know what exactly life is and importance of struggling and winning. One of my uncles is blind from his childhood. I just asked him once don’t you regret yourselves for losing your eyes while playing. He replied “am blessed by god with more imagination power than anyone of you. I can imagine only of good things and joy even in the worst situations, not everyone is blessed with this power”.

I really don’t know why some don’t understand what exactly life is-“it’s more than what we dream, what we think, what we experience, what we do, what we admire, what we speak, what we read, what we imagine, what we see, what we hear and what we analyze”.

“Learn to smile, learn to laugh, learn to scream and learn to live”. Always keep smiling it will take your sorrow out. Try to change your mentality when you are down. Smiles in the toughest of toughest situations make you a perfect man.  Apologize for your wrong acts/misconduct to others and moreover apologize yourself for your failures. It helps in getting better and better in your life.

Stop thinking about the words people around spill on you. Just think of you and people depended on you. You have got a small amount of time to spend, remove the unnecessary thoughts and unwanted emotions. There are many persons depended on you and shedding their life as oil to light your lamp. Be loyal to the persons who stood by in most difficult situations. If you think you are not eligible to live for yourselves, live for the people who love you.

You are no one to kill yourselves it’s a more than a crime…..

I do know am not a successful person to pick up a topic like this and advice some around. But I haven’t sacrificed or tried to get out of life for silly reasons so I did wrote this.

……Understand life and start living better!!

Please stop committing suicides…!!

Thanks for reading

ramanujan………. \raam/

From morning whole of INDIA especially the football fans were glued to TV and tensed like young aspirants waiting for the exam results. It does include me as well in the list. I was checking internet and TV updates regularly from morning but no news yet.

01.45pm Breaking news…….. I was in a restaurant to have my lunch. There was an absolute pin drop silence like in an empty parliament house and everyone was focused on the TV at the corner. Even the waiter had forgotten the orders we made and was deeply involved in watching TV. A live press conference from Delhi, the sports minister Rahul Gandhi was in centre of attraction.  He was smiling with a letter in his hand and sitting beside him was the AIFF president anil malhotra. He started to speak-“I am very glad to inform all the media people and people of our country that the beautiful country have won the bid to host the beautiful game in 2026. It will be the 23^rd edition of fifa world cup”……..he continued with answering the media officials.

Everyone around me had started jumping and shouting like a kid which had a won a race for the first time. I too got excited and we had decided to party hard tonight. Finally waiter came near us asked-“what did you order sir, can you do it once again please”??

Many were thinking to book the tickets now itself. I just remembered them its 12 years later not just 12 months.

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12 years later

This time there’s was neither shout outs in the parliament about the organizing committee nor in the media. Everything was planned in an absolute superb way. Prime Minister Rahul Gandhi and sports minister sachin pilot were the men who took the entire responsibility.

For the first time in history Indian football team had got more attention and focus than the cricket team. Even though it had qualified for 2022 world cup but was unable to reach the round of 16. The excitement was due to the victory of Indian team in recent Asian cup under the new coach zidane. He was more concentrated into practicing than to media avoiding unnecessary controversories. The former France captain was the perfect person to the subcontinent conditions. He had coached various international clubs including Liverpool and Barcelona from 2012 to 2023.He had full confidence in team that it would certainly progress till quarterfinals. Thereafter it depends on the courage and will power of the players. The organizing committee head Rahul Gandhi had made himself available in India for next two months. These days he was more into football than into political issues. Regularly he used to visit the practicing sessions of Indian football team and motivate them.

Monday, June 8^th 2026

The world cup kicked off by a brilliant opening ceremony in New Delhi. The theme song was a huge hit and it had composed by three great musicians-A R Rehman, Eminem and Amit trivedi. It also included performances by some of the greats across the globe. India was in group A which also included Germany, Chile and Cameron.

First match was between India and Chile. The stadium was completely packed up as expected. Which included all the celebrities of bollywood and many of the politicians were present to witness the beauty of soccer. In the most dramatic match ever referee managed to show red cards twice. List included our midfielder pankaj Singh followed by a fellow from Chile. Finally in the 85^th min jignesh Patel scored a goal which took us to the first victory. Second was against Germany it witnessed a hopeless performance from our boys. As a result we lost it 3-0, some media had started calling few of the players a demon whom they had called god few days ago. The third match was against the low profile Swiss team and we were short of a victory to reach the round of 16. A draw was also would have helped which was under the condition that Chile has to lose to Germany. The match was one of the boring matches of this world cup which included a lone goal and it was a self goal from the Swiss men. The result was 1-0 it took India to round 16 for the first time in history and the players had got their titles back from demons to god.

Excitement about the next match against Uruguay was sky high.            It was more than normal to me as I had booked the tickets to the match to be held in Bangalore. The high profile Uruguay team had a good blend of youth and experience unlike us which had got only the young inexperienced ones. Captain Mukesh mishra and zidane had a press conference in which they said “we are confident of winning against the men from Uruguay”. It made me sure that tickets in my hands will not go end up worthless. The match was one of best I have ever seen it went on till the penalty shootout and the brilliant effort by the goal key sandeep we won by 5-4. Sandeep was a regular goal key of Chelsea football club from past two years. It took me a complete 24 hrs to come out of the nervousness, excitement I had in the stadium.

Rahul Gandhi was in almost all of the matches of the world cup.  Both After and before the match he used to have a chat with mukesh and zidane regularly which the news channels made as their exclusives news reports.

The next match was after a long one and half week gap and it was against Portugal. The only concern of the men in blue was the injury of the defender debashish. A new guy named salman was all set to wear the shoes of debashish and make an international debut. No one was on their seats all throughout the match, everyone was shouting and screaming chak de India….!!!! The match resulted in 2-0 courtesy a double strike from the captain mukesh. In style the underdogs of the tournament were in semis. The next one was against all time favorites Brazil, which was all set to rock the floor. India football fans had supported the samba boys in many of the world cups. But this time the story was little different we had our own men to cheer, support and follow. Many of the players from the Brazilian team were idols even for many of our players. But game is all depends about the performance in just 90 minutes. The match had resulted in the favor of men in blue in the extra time.

The things here had changed a lot due to the entry of India to the big finals of WC. The view of kids enjoying soccer on the streets overthrowing the popularity of Cricket was common. The Indian football team members had crowned new heroes surpassing film actors and cricketers.

The final was against France. It had a proper mixture of star strikers and responsible defenders. Moreover they had got the brilliance of 2025 fifa player of the year William abagnale. He was the front candidate to win the gold shoe.

July 7^th-2026

The much anticipated and awaited final had begun with an early goal at the 5^th min by French men. Our players had their moments but couldn’t capitalize it. Till the 78^th min it was 1-0, there came salman scoring his first of the tournament. Which resulted in the extra time, thereafter it was an equal effort by both the teams. Finally penalty shootout was set to decide the champs of 2026. Unfortunately it resulted in the favor of French men. The only man who didn’t scored for India during penalty was the main striker jignesh. He was upset and went to dressing room with wiping the tears. During the post match ceremony captain mukesh thanked all Indian people for their support and love. He also thanked the prime minister and the sports minister sachin pilot for their efforts in bringing fifa world cup to India.

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…………it was almost 10^th time I had given my alarm to snooze. Finally woke up and 7.25 was the time. Realized am still in 2010 not 2026.

Newspaper headlines- another cwg scandal broke out in the parliament.

Due to the corrupt politicians and irresponsible committee heads of our country we are struggling to host an event like commonwealth games and being citizens we are dreaming of hosting big events like FIFA wc and OLYMPICs…

Will it be a dream forever?? It remains answerless….!!

ramanujan………. \raam/

We always look up at celebrities or famous people and say “I like him and want to lead a life like him”…….because all we admire are the persons who have got fame and name. Am little concerned about this “why don’t we admire people around us who are good enough to be admired”?? .In fact many are way ahead in many ways but they lack in opportunities to prove themselves. Also ego problems play a major role here which stops us to admire some of them.

Always small things are ignored even though it carries greatness. We got toadmire the goodness no matter where it resides. The person carrying nobleness may be a small kid or matured old man of 80 years it doesn’t matter-goodness means the same everywhere!!

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Friday, 5.00pm                                                                                                                     Decoding was in progress ”transltr” was working 24hrs to collect information but failed to fetch results as required. National Security Agency code breaking machine had encountered a mysterious code it can’t break. Head of NSA Strathmore was upset over the same. The mysterious code named “DIGITAL FORTRESS” and was created by suspended NSA employee ‘ensei tankado’.

Dan brown was at his best in explaining each and every bit of NSA in his novel “digital fortress”. A sudden break from the driver took me directly from NSA to B.H.Road in the span of microseconds. I was on my way back home for a two days leave. The driver had got down to sip on coffee. I went near a shop to have a sprite or a Pepsi as it was still hot which didn’t allow me to take a cup of coffee. I was having my drink and looking around to figure out where exactly we are now. A small boy of around 8 years old came near me and started starring at me. He seemed to be like a local guy there, he was wearing a shirt which had caught mud all over. His dress confirmed me that he is back from playing something in the ground. I went near him and offered him a drink and some chocolates. He refused both and started to speak “who want to drink a liquid which earlier proved to be containing pesticide content”. I got astonished by the awareness and amount of knowledge he had got in that age. I convinced him that it had proved earlier but now it’s pure and certified by health department of our country. Earlier it was a mistake and now all the things are clear and now there’s no harm in drinking it. I showed him the ISI mark and assuring him that it’s certified from govt of INDIA. After thinking for two long minutes he nodded as though he was answering his class teacher. He agreed with me saying that his family doctor too drink those and so does his neighbors. When I was about to ask about him and his family which I was curious to know but he interrupted me asking” don’t you like INDIA “ by keeping his finger crossed over his face. His eyes were wide open to see what will be my reply.

I replied him with intense enthusiasm-I am a proud INDIAN it’s my mother country I like it…….

But again Interrupting me he put up a query- then why don’t you people help INDIANS with drinking coconut water or sugarcane juice or at least nimbu pani which earn revenues for our farmers. You people only want to improve the improved multinational companies but not our own farmers???

I went on listening and seeing the expressions on the face of young aspiring lad. He was determined what to say no matter who is speaking with. I was astonished by the young guy who has matured par above his age. I couldn’t speak as much as I was experiencing something great which I had never experienced earlier. It’s not common I shut my mouth in a conversation listening to others. But he was special, only one thing was in my mind-‘guys like him are going to make my country proud in the upcoming days’. In fact everyone knows about what he’s talking but we don’t implement that. I threw the bottle in my hand. I assured him in the upcoming days I will certainly help my fellow mates of my country by offering my help wherever possible. Smiles crossed all over his face I was curious to know who taught all these things in such a small age. He told his mom teaches daily about all these things and she is a teacher in practice & his dad is a farmer.

His parents should be really proud of him. In that age we were just thinking of playing, watching cricket, cartoons on TV and enjoying the childhood. His concern levels were beyond his maturity. Bus was about to start I went back to my seat waving my hand to him, he shouted loudly “bro meet me when am 20years old” I will be taller than what am now. I knew he will not only be taller but he will be on top in many aspects.

That kid was really special!!!!!!

I started admiring him….he was not less than any of the old heads who are matured enough by their experience but this kid was way ahead than them in many ways!!!