Be in motion

I know, I sort of committed to look into the subject of mind control yesterday. Yet there are times when we want to do something lighter and refreshing. So here are my thoughts for the day…….

First of all,I am an unashamed TV addict. I like movement of all sorts. The movement need not be orderly, it need not be synchronized, and it doesn’t have to be stylized. I like all sorts of movement, to me the highly stylized performance of a great dancer like Alarmel Valli( Bharathanatyam Dancer) and the moon dance of Michael Jackson are equally enjoyable. I will stick my head out and say that I am usually delighted to watch a crazy bum doing a totally chaotic dance for no purpose.

Yes I like movement, and I like TV and I used to play cricket and there were two games on TV yesterday involving Indian teams; the under 19 world cup at Kolalampur and the first match of the final of the triangular tournament in Australia. Both can’t be missed.

The games were great. The Sydney game in particular was a stunner, not in the sense of any dashing performances, but because one man decided to show what he was made of to the world. This man had been a teenage prodigy, a swash buckling batsman, a breaker of records, a real genius, at least by Indian standards, but his magic was waning, he was troubled by injuries, poor form, over work, and the passing of years. Like the fashion in the world he was being criticized for one and every thing which went wrong with the team. Some even say he only played for records. But on this day he stood like a colossus between Australia and an Indian defeat. He pulled off a good win for the team. I am sure if he had got out early in the innings the Indians would have succumbed to the pressure and lost the game.

He was surprisingly forth coming when talking to the press after the game, and he made it clear that he was out to make a point and made it as he wished. It was refreshing to hear him speak so for a change.

The Indian under 19 team won also, perhaps not very convincingly, but in the end it’s the victory that matters.