IPL- Indian Paisa League

These few days, it's impossible to surf the news channels without being exposed(and sometimes overexposed) to the entire IPL spot fixing imbroglio. The names of Shreesant and Vindoo Dara Singh being the most popular followed by the other two players Ajit Chandila and Ankit Chavan of the Rajasthan Royals. Although Shreesant maintains that he is innocent and awaits exoneration, he should come in terms of the fact that fans are busy burning down his posters also he won't be featuring any longer in the ad campaigns of the Karnataka Government. Not so royal now, are you guys?. Other names doing the rounds are those of Sakshi Dhoni (formerly Rawat)as she sat(in the V.I.P. box) and chatted with Vindoo during a match and a Sakshi Jhalla, a Jaipur local who seems to have scored a Blackberry phone off of the infamous Shreesant. While Vindoo has been placed in police custody for betting during the IPL. In India betting is only legal if it's a horse race and clearly IPL and cricket in general are not involved with the animal. Vindoo in Custody apparently shape shifted into a sweet song bird (most news channels are going with "canary") and revealed that he had placed bets during the World Cup and the previous two seasons of IPL the entire venture earning him a whopping 17 lakh rupees. Also he has mentioned connections with Mr. Guru Mayappam (principal of CSK) and his songs threaten to unveil more starlets and veteran cricketers. These two characters are further linked to another betting whiz. This third character is linked to the D Company. And this link is THE link that makes this issue so much more serious and nefarious. The very "link" that is a threat to national security. The police is now scrambling looking for another character called Shobhan Kalachowky, a man in his 40s leading the list of fugitives.Police believe his arrest could help bust the entire betting ring in Western India. Kalachowky, cops say, is instrumental in fixing some of the IPL matches this season, and arrested bookies like Ramesh Vyas are said to be working for him. It doesn't go unnoticed that as IPL rose in popularity, it also rose as a hub for sleaze and obscenity drawing revenue for and from the glitzy, glamorous and the anti nationals. It has also been suggested that it's the IPL which has degraded the nation. While I don't necessarily agree that IPL is the reason for the degradation of this country but I find myself concerned with the quality of sportspeople this country is producing. Although BCCI has imposed a lifetime ban on the players but the real question remains, "is it enough?". Surely as the supreme court says , "you have taken your eye off the ball". I never thought I would have to say this in a cricket frenzied nation but people lets save the dignity of this 125 year old game. Let's make it a sport again. I don't know what went around Shreesant's mind when he hung that towel on his waist, but the cricket fanatics are crestfallen. Its also baffling that the neither the BCCI, nor the team owners or the players had never know of any of this. At this point I am really annoyed. How could you have never suspected? And what evidence was the BCCI waiting for even after the exposure? Yours sincerly Angry cricket fan

THREE YEARS WORTH OF RAIN AND TEA BREAKS

I hate having to start a post with a ,"its been a long while...", but it has been a really long while since I last made a post. So you may take it for granted that this "comeback post" is going to be much more scattered and unorganized. But then again my blog is called Random Life so deal with it. This post is mostly going to be dipped it nostalgia and coated with some memories. At the end of 3 years of college its the time to say goodbye. In my case I said my fair share of goodbyes over the course of 4 official and 2 unofficial farewell meetings. For the official ones we dressed up and later drenched out our make up in tears.In the unofficial ones strangely we were all smiles. But the worst of it came when all my friends had left and I was supposed to stay for 2 more days in an empty hostel room. To be fair my roommate had left quite a while ago but once you see your friends pack up their hold-all(s) and drag and stuff their airbags into the cars the real possibility of farewell presents itself. Its not really the sadness of departure alone, but its the possibility that the people who were once the closet to you make regress to become strangers over time. You may feel free and chuckle that its never going to happen to you and your friends but only time will tell. To be honest I hadn't cried the entire time I saw my friends off but once I had packed away my luggage and vacated my hostel room, I let out that solitary tear (it was followed by a couple others) and as I let it dry on my cheeks I thought to myself,"I and going to miss these idiots, I am going to miss the family I had in Shillong and I am going to miss being a TERRESTRIAL LUNATIC just as bad as I am going to miss being a part of the Biotechnology department, batch of 2010-13. Even if I had to repeat the year, its never going to be the same. There I said it, I LOVE YOU ALL AND I WILL MISS ALL OF YOU. Here are some snippets of the past couple (+1) years.