Is Beauty Only Skin Deep ?

Throughout the centuries the concept of beauty has been defined differently by different people.While most of the people agree that beauty is internal and one should look at the beauty of heart rather than physical beauty, for all practical purposes we tend to go with physical beauty while making first evaluations of people.The biggest tragedy is that in most of the cases its these first evaluations that we carry along with us for a very long time unless something drastic happens.It has been scientifically proved that even babies react in a more positive manner towards good looking people.In interviews also good looking people have undeniably an edge over the other applicants for the job.It does not mean that physical beauty is something bad but it does give competitive advantage for the one possessing it.We may argue endlessly over the validity of using physical beauty as a criteria for judging people but the fact remains that weather we like it or not we all use it.This is due to the fact that beauty of heart or the internal beauty is very hard to see or measure unless you know a person well.But there is no doubt in the fact that the world would be a much better place to live in if we can actually judge people using internal beauty more easily and that should be our criterion for judging people.

The Shocking Exit Of India From The World Cup

India, A country of 110 million people from where half of the revenues of ICC comes from, A country where cricket is considered as a religion & cricketers as demi gods.The first round exit from 2007 world cup has come as a rude shock to the millions of cricket fans.For a cricket crazy guy like me its extremely hard to digest the fact that a country like Bangladesh which is considered a minnow in cricketing parlance has defeated India and has gone to the next round.Though i would not like to take any credit away from them because they played superior cricket and managed to outwit the Indians.

It will take sometime before Indians cricketers can come out of this setback.The fans and the media would be particularly harsh on senior cricketers like Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Virendra Shewag.Already we see the burning of posters and pelting of stones at the houses of the cricketers.There will be also a cry for retirement of the senior cricketers which might reach a fever pitch in coming days.Its no doubt most shameful moment for the Indian cricket team and its senior players.But instead of playing the blame game it would be rather more wise at this juncture to analyse the causes for this downfall and correct it before its too late else cricket will also go in the hockey's way for India.I pray that Indian cricket will bounce back strongly from this debacle and raise again to become a superpower in the world of cricket.

The Fighting Spirit

When you talk about fighting spirit the first name that comes to your mind in recent times especially if you are from the Indian subcontinent and a follower of the great game of cricket is Sourav Ganguly-The Royal Bengal Tiger.The man who had it all.He had played for 11 years representing India in international cricket out of which he was the captain for 4 years.He had taken India to the world cup finals in 2003.But nobody can change what is written in ones destiny.He lost it all,A prolonged slump in form coupled with fights with the new coach in the form of Greg Chappell resulted in him being thrown out of the team.It looked like it was the end of the career for him.All fans and well wishers advised him to retire but there he showed that was different from the rest.He started practising hard often was a lonely figure an object of much ridicule and criticism.He bore it all with the resolution that he will be back in the team before the 2007 world cup. He proved his detractors wrong by making a strong comeback into the national team after 9 months in wilderness.Today he is in his best form and lets hope that he continues in the same vein and help India get the 2007 world cup. All cheers to him.