Recently

Recently, following things have fascinated me:

1. US primary caucuses, particularly the democratic side of it. I have loved to watch the debates and these debated are tutorials on public speaking, making your point, and how politicians should go about it. On the last one at South Carolina, we saw some mud-slinging too but it was done in such a graceful manner and replied with same grace by Obama. The idea of having questions on you-tube is too good, its one of the finest examples of technology used by masses and what a way to use it. Coming back to Obama, his speeches about hope, change are awesome, he speaks beautifully and literally it is his speeches that have captured everyone's attention and making him such a good candidate. Finally, the idea of candidates debating on key issues is very good, something that should be practised in India, i strongly think.

2. Harsha Bhogle: With the current India-Australlia series being broadcasted on Star-cricket, its good to see the usual team (Harsha, Sunil, Ravi Shastri et al) back and they just take the commentary several notches higher...there is no mandira etc only cricket and all are passionate about it.

3. On dropping Ganguly: Ganguly has been dropped dfor the one day series. Now previously, before Ganguly made a come back, i have never been a fan of him as a batsman but i respected him for his captaincy. But after his comeback, he has looked different, hungry, mature and statisitics speak for themselves. There is beauty in comebacks, always is. You have seen both sides of the coin, the sunny one and dark one and you know how people change. It is never easy to make a comeback, self-belief is tested to its core and you always rediscover yourself. With ganguly, it happened. The morons at BCCI have proved it (again!) that they dont know what cricket is all about.