bowl, baby, bowl

"I have no plans to do movies at the moment. I am totally committed to my career as a cricketer. I know I am handsome but all the actresses can wait.”

-- Sreesanth, hailed as overexcited TV channels and following-in-their-footsteps newspaper cricket writers as the next best thing to Glenn McGrath.

Will someone ask the kid to please shut up and figure out how to bowl a proper length?

Six-pack or six packs? Pick your packs

There are six-packs, and there are six packs. Of cigarettes.
The former takes a lot off you. The latter, in the long run, we are told, takes a lot off you.
Mention six-packs even once, and I'll blow a fuse. I don't have one, and envy everyone who lays claims to such things on life. Mention six packs, and I'll blow a fuse. I don't smoke so many, and envy everyone who claim to have so much time as to light up those many.
Shah Rukh, we are told, is the latest one to flaunt six-packs. Johnnie Abraham, though, we are told again, is the original one to own one. Johnnie Abraham, we are told, is the latest advocate of six packs. Shah Rukh, though, was the original one to pack in the lights.
Bottom line? If you got the Will, go for six-packs. If you got the Wills, light it, moron.

Mr Rioter, you are in queue to pop a Q

Revisiting Gujarat. Good idea. Even better timing.
BJP-types in the media ask sneakily: Why now, just before elections?
I ask: Why not now, just before elections? Media hunts, media grunts. Why shouldn't the media haunt those who deserve to be haunted at a time most suited to build public opinion?

BJP-types ask: Why pull skeletons out of the cupboard?
I ask: Why not pull out skeletons from the cupboard when it is ready to be loaded afresh? Media lights the bulb, the bulb illuminates the dark. Don't we have a subject called history right from elementary school-level onwards?

BJP-type ask: Why always stake out 2002 Gujarat or 1992 Maharashtra riots?
I ask: What about Bhagalpur, or 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom, or even post-Partition?

BJP-types ask: Why not anything against governments associated with non-BJP parties ?
I ask: When did Bhagalpur happen? When did anti-Sikh pogrom happen? When did Bofors happen? When did 'chaara ghotala' happen? When did post_Partition, the mother of all killings, happen?

BJP-types ask: Why can't we let bygones be bygones and move ahead?
I say: Good point; and then ask (somehow questioning is one good bad habit of we humans): Why not let Ram, his mandir, his sethu, and his shastra be bygones just as well?

You ask your questions, I will ask mine. In that cross-questioning, may be, some answer will emerge some day. In the interim, let's put that foot down (ugh, change your stinking socks, mate) and keep redrawing the footmarks.

DISCLAIMER: The pic is from 1992 Bombay riots. The dead man's ghost saw many others ghosts born 10 years later.