Jelly beans and the english media......

After India’s thumping victory yesterday, as an enthusiastic Indian fan I was browsing through some of the articles of the British media to read their comments on the match. Though every other site was praising India for their win there was one thing that caught the limelight in every one of them. It’s something totally irrelevant to cricket that’s the JELLY BEAN.

I have always thought that the English media was one of the most hyped ones. After reading those articles yesterday it just reiterated my view on them. It’s amazing to know how they can hype up a simple (rather silly in this case) issue out of proportion. The media conference after the match was filled with questions about the jelly bean rather than cricket.

Guess had Beckham been from any other part of the world he would not have been as popular as he is now. No I am not trying to pull down his capabilities but it’s just that the English media played a HUGE part creating a BRAND BECKHAM. Freddie was all over the place in the media after their ashes victory couple of years back. Images of him sneezing and coughing would make it to the 1^st page for almost 6 months after their ashes victory.

Anyways let me not be like one of them trying to take the limelight away from India, hail India for one of their rare victories in England. Come on India go and get the series.

my first scribble

The idea of scribbling my thoughts through a blog arose some 2 years back and I did write couple of blogs then but never continued from there on. It was primarily due to 2 reasons

1) I should confess that I am kind of lazy to sit down and write a blog now and then.

2) Every other blog article that I read was lengthy that would run in for atleast couple of pages and I aint good at writing for pages together.

But now I have decided to start blogging again ( if I can consider those 2 stupid blogs I wrote some time back ).

This interest to blog again was kindled primarily by 2 factors

1) Now in a B school I spend most of my time in front of my laptop and I wish to do something meaningful other than simply play games in it and try to search over google to do some ctrl C and ctrl V for my assignments.

2) After going through my friend Giri’s blog (http://grikboy.blogspot.com/) I realized that blogs need not be lengthy. They can be short and still be sweet. Each of his blogs are not more than 1000 words but they are still good and they drive a good number of hits every day.

Giri if at all I continue to scribble for some time it is because of you dude, you are my inspiration for this. Thanks to you and hope you don’t are not furious at me for mentioning your name and the blog address here.

Hope I continue blogging at least till the end of my stint here in college J