To kill boredom

My Dad believed the newspaper paper especially the English ones might just be the tool that differentiated the intellectuals with others. I remember him reading it end to end from time know to me. I probably was too young until later part of 1980s to attempt reading, if at all it was the fortnightly magazine “The frontline” which had some awesome snaps of military tankers to airforce flights. I vaguely remember Rajiv Gandhi was in the helm and was in very many pages as well. Newspapers then wanted to lure the younger ones, “the young world”, something that my Dad thought I could read and understand. I dreaded those Saturday newspapers forcing me to read the four pages of the kids section.   As weeks passed by I just about managed few articles in it but was overwhelmed by some of the stories of extraordinary talent. Yes there was comparison, well know to our generation, some survived the comparison and rose to the occasion the rest fell away only to realise they were equally good a...

George Orwell’s The Sporting Sprit vividly stays on from my 6th grade onwards. The author’s point of view was that sports created animosity and does not actually create the so called sporting sprit. I quite do not agree with George Orwell on that. Sports has promoted mutual respect baring few sporadic incidence that we can clearly neglect. On the other hand sports has been a change agent, opportunity for young people across the globe to make a career out of it rather than drift into some unethical activities especially in war ravaged countries. All those who have played a sport at a formidable level very well know that it is intense competition on the field and ends with a good shake-hand and mutual respect off it. Sports promotes sporting sprit or otherwise is a separate debate for some other day. Sports has for sure caught some attention from Leader’s in corporate companies and the B-schools in charming their audience with sports analogies. Sports analogies have sure caught the i...