God's own cricket...

It's Sachin Tendulkar. I'm also one of the happiest human in this world to have his name in my page. Here are the best quotes on Sachin Tendulkar and i wish these lines are well enough to keep those critics pens shut.

I saw him playing on television and was struck by his technique, so I asked my wife to come look at him. Now I never saw myself play, but I feel that this player is playing much the same as I used to play, and she looked at him on Television and said yes, there is a similarity between the two...hi compactness, technique, stroke production... it all seemed to gel! in reference to Sachin Tendulkar.- Sir Don Bradman

India's fortune will depend on how many runs the little champion scores. There is no doubt Tendulkar is the real thing.- Sunil Gavaskar

He has defined cricket in his fabulous, impeccable manner. He is to batting what Shane Warne is to bowling.- Richie Benaud

Sachin is cricket's God!- Barry Richards

Harder he works, the luckier he gets.- Ian Chappell

Technically, you can't fault Sachin. Seam or spin, fast or slow nothing is a problem.- Geoffrey Boycott

He is Sachin Tendulkar. I hope he stays Sachin Tendulkar. We need a new player, a player in his own way. He has a technique which is the hallmark of a great player. Everything indicates that he will be a great player and I am sure he will prove me right. Reminds me of Barry Richards.- Eddie Barlow

He is a perfectly balanced batsman and knows perfectly well when to attack and when to play defensive cricket. He has developed the ability to treat bowlers all over the world with contempt and can destroy any attack with utmost ease.- Greg Chappell

I'll be going to bed having nightmares of Sachin just running down the wicket and belting me back over the head for six. He was unstoppable. I don't think anyone, apart from Don Bradman, is in the same class as Sachin Tendulkar. He is just an amazing player.- Shane Warne
I think he is marvellous. I think he will fit in whatever category of Cricket that has been played or will be played, from the first ball that has ever been bowled to the last ball that’s going to be. He can play in any era and at any level. I would say he’s 99.5% perfect.- Viv Richards on Sachin Tendulkar

Today, he showed the world why he is considered the best batsman around. Some of the shots he played were simply amazing. Earlier, opposing teams used to feel that Sachin's dismissal meant they could win the game. Today, I feel that the Indian players, too, feel this way.- Wasim Akram

Beneath the helmet, under that unruly curly hair, inside the cranium, there is something we don't know, something beyond scientific measure. Something that allows him to soar, to roam a territory of sport that, forget us, even those who are gifted enough to play alongside him cannot even fathom. When he goes out to bat, people switch on their television sets and switch off their lives.- BBC Sports, on Sachin Tendulkar

I Was fielding in the covers Tendulkar came out to bat in his debut Test at Karachi. I still remember Waqar Younis was at his peak form at that time. Tendulkar tried to drive Waqar through the covers off his very first ball in Test cricket but was beaten all ends up. But I walked to captain Imran Khan and told him 'this kid looks very good' and Imran agree with me.- Abdul Qadir

I have watched a lot of Tendulkar and we have spoken to each other a lot. He has it in him to be among the very best.- Sir Garfield Sobers

Don't bowl him bad balls, he hits the good ones for fours.- Michael Kasprowicz

If I've to bowl to Sachin, I'll bowl with my helmet on. He hits the ball so hard.- Dennis Lillee

I still think Tendulkar is the best batsmen in the world ahead of Steve Waugh and Lara.- Glenn McGrath

What we (Zimbabwe) need is 10 Tendulkars.- Paul Strang

He is Sachin Tendulkar. I hope he stays Sachin Tendulkar. We need a new player, a player in his own way. He has a technique which is the hallmark of a great player. Everything indicates that he will be a great player and I am sure he will prove me right. Reminds me of Barry Richards.- Eddie Barlow

Sometime back I had written a piece that said that Sachin's the master and Lara a genius with his head high up somewhere. That's it!- Peter Roebuck

Sachin is an attacker. He has much more power than Sunny. He wants to be the one to set the pace. He has to be on top. That's the buzz about him.- Jeff Thompson

Tendulkar is the most complete batsman I have stood behind. I saw the hundred in Perth on a bouncy pitch with Hughes, McDermott and Whitney gunning for him he only had 60-odd when No 11 came in. I've seen him against Warne too.- Ian Healy

Sachin's the best. I've had this view since I saw him score that hundred in Sydney in 1992. He's the most composed batsman I've ever seen.- Mike Coward

The pressure on me is nothing as compared to Sachin Tendulkar. Sachin, like God, must never fail. The crowd always expects him to succeed and it is too much pressure on him - Mark Waugh

Sachin is a genius. I'm a mere mortal.- Brain Lara

His life seems to be a stillness in a frantic world... [When he goes out to bat], it is beyond chaos - it is a frantic appeal by a nation to one man. The people see him as a God...- Mathew Hayden, on Sachin Tendulkar

It was one of the greatest innings I have ever seen. There is no shame being beaten by such a great player, Sachin is perhaps only next to the Don.- Steve Waugh

You might pitch a ball on the off stump and think you have bowled a good ball and he walks across and hits it for two behind midwicket. His bat looks so heavy but he just waves it around like it's a toothpick.- Brett Lee, on Sachin Tendulkar’s batting, 1999

He has his unique game and style and elegance and power and I'm sure there will be no one to fit themselves in his shoes other than his shadow. - Sathish.

Statutory Warning : Criticising him is injurious to health.

An Unforgotten legend's diary .

யாமறிந்த மொழிகளிலே தமிழ்மொழி போல்
இனிதாவது எங்கும் காணோம்,
பாமரராய் விலங்குகளாய், உலகனைத்தும்
இகழ்ச்சிசொலப் பான்மை கெட்டு,
நாமமது தமிழரெனக் கொண்டு இங்கு
வாழ்ந்திடுதல் நன்றோ? சொல்லீர்!
தேமதுரத் தமிழோசை உலகமெலாம்
பரவும்வகை செய்தல் வேண்டும்.

யாமறிந்த புலவரிலே கம்பனைப் போல்,
வள்ளுவர்போல் இளங்கோ வைப்போல்,
பூமிதனில் யாங்கணுமே பிறந்ததில்லை,
உண்மை, வெறும் புகழ்ச்சியில்லை,
ஊமையராய்ச் செவிடர்களாய்க் குருடர்களாய்
வாழ்கின்றோம் ஒரு சொற் கேளீர்!
சேமமுற வேண்டுமெனில் தெருவெல்லாம்
தமிழ் முழக்கம் செழிக்கச் செய்வீர்!

பிறநாட்டு நல்லறிஞர் சாத்திரங்கள்
தமிழ்மொழியிற் பெயர்த்தல் வேண்டும
இறவாத புகழுடைய புதுநூல்கள்
தமிழ்மொழியில் இயற்றல் வேண்டும்
மறைவாக நமக்குள்ளே பழங் கதைகள்
சொல்வதிலோர் மகிமை இல்லை
திறமான புலமையெனில் வெளி நாட்டோர்
அதைவணக்கஞ் செய்தல் வேண்டும்.

உள்ளத்தில் உண்மையொளி யுண்டாயின்
வாக்கினிலே ஒளி யுண்டாகும்
வெள்ளத்தின் பெருக்கைப்போல் கலைப்பெருக்கும்
கவிப்பெருக்கும் மேவு மாயின்
பள்ளத்தில் வீழ்ந்திருக்கும் குருடரெல்லாம்
விழிபெற்றுப் பதவி கொள்வார்,
தெள்ளுற்ற தமிழமுதின் சுவைகண்டார்
இங்கமரர் சிறப்புக் கண்டார்.

- Subramaniya Bharathiyar

Though the world may forget him, it is our duty to revitalise his dreams. To be continued...

The Road Not Taken...

Hope you might have already tasted those lines, just do it again. Because, i bet, everyone of you should be coming across such roads in their life. Did nt you?

Thanks to Frost.

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;


Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,


And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.


I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

- Robert Frost, 1920

Yes, Indeed. It makes all the difference for the one less travelled by.

Let us dream, Let us boom, Let's show who we are!!!

When I introduce myselves to the other nationalities here in germany that I'm an Indian, there will be a little mumble like "Oh, Spicy people" , "Oh, Computer Intelligence", "Oh, Fast developing nation", " Oh, Land of Enterpreuners", etc... These steryotypes sometimes leads us to leave a smile at that spot but there is a pain at a corner of the heart. And Indeed, I sometimes use this chance to embrace our country with some flourishing aspects by lecturing them. Also when we start the business talks during our sit-chat breaks, I will always have an upper hand in the recent developments and investments in our country which are really huge when seen in numbers. But frankly, I was'nt able to embrace further since we do our shipping to the countries of my mates who are involved in that chat. They run the business with our countrymen.

Yes, we produce and export high-quality garments to germany and other european nations, we produce and export rice and wheat to Romania, we develop softwares for the french airlines, we dig mica for the other nation's electrical resistance but this amount of internationalisation is'nt sufficient. Though we have an incredible growth in our GDP, there is a major symptom on the decline of sustainable growth due to the oscillating international market . Though i can make a gracious exit by exploding the highlighted characteristics of our nation during our sit-chat, still i feel a bit of pain at the corner of the heart. Are we in a slide of mud which leads to the cages of lobbyism? Is our economic policy in peril? We emphasize intensively for the cross-cultural business modes right from agriculture till construction. What kind of benefit do we procure from these kind of scenarios? We import the machineries from the western nations using our bank credits and we export the products produced by those machines to the same nations for a lower sourcing price as a strategy of Buyer-Supplier relations.

I feel like i'm being ridiculed in this state of diplomatic international business tactics. It is like we are giving our land to do their business in a greater way and this situation is an example for the darker sides of outsourcing. Are we making our voyage to see the side of glory or are we making our voyage for the survival. Lets make changes with those policies by uniting the minds of people who deceives these situations.

When we can dream it, we can do it - Walt Disney

(Oops, even this quote has been sourced)