Such Treachery

So, Ganguly along with some other senior players goes unsold and predictably the net goes buzzing about this “deliberate humiliation” by the Knight Riders’ management. I guess it makes sense. After all he is Kolkata’s “favorite son”. It hardly matters that under his captaincy KK was known more about its controversies than its performance. It hardly matters that he is now a reality show host which I guess is nowhere close to cricket. It hardly matters that he is 38 and has retired from all forms of international cricket for a while now. It hardly matters that he himself doubled his base price which his good friends in Sahara also were not ready to pay for their Pune team. KK has been consistently one of the lowest ranked team in all editions of IPL, but that too hardly matters. Dada should have been there.

I am sure the high standard of his performance a decade ago should have provided him a berth and a skyrocketing salary in the KK team in this IPL too. I mean isn’t he the greatest captain of all time. Actually the govt. should force the KK management, which is a private entity, to fulfill everyone’s whims. Isn’t that’s what the “capitalist class” in such regime supposed to do. After all, isn’t “dadagiri” the catch word here?

Let’s not forget the auction itself which is being telecasted over national television. Such is the audacity of team managements that they actually pay for players who actually perform. I mean, how could they judge a player by their past performance in IPL? What treacherous world we live in! Let’s all call for another strike and scream, “Cholbe na, cholbe na” rallying on the road.

Let this “dada” hangover stay for few more years. The greater priority of moving on and create younger, world class player from the state can wait for now.

Musical Promiscuity

It’s become quite a pattern.. Whenever a source of good music dries up, I start falling into the abyss of listening to the endless chatter of keyboard and mouse clicks around me. Then suddenly, somehow I stumble upon something decent if not amazing. This time its Jango.com’s turn. I was enlightened about it by a very “No Rock Music” person. I reluctantly tried it out and surprisingly, it turned out to be a pretty decent site. Also, it’s still one of the few sites, yet to be blocked to Indian IPs. It’s not really in the same league as Pandora but it will work for the time being. It’s got a pretty decent preset playlist. As soon as I hit on the classic rock channel the speaker stared blaring “Panama” by Van Halen, after that came Doors’ turn and the mood was set. It did get stuck a few times with some sort of error but it wasn't too hard to get around it.

The thing is I need to listen to music all the time. I have been listening to music all the while in school and college, which explains my shoddy grades. But in office, it’s different. It adds a bit of drama to my usual drab job. It envelops one from all the mediocrity being fostered around. Also, it cushions the disgusting yawns of my boss and gives me an alibi to ignore his summons. Oh, I forgot, it also inspires. So, every time I automate a process which helps my client to spare few extra bucks to buy a beer, there is a Dylan or Santana whom I thank.