19th of February! A holiday for millions to commemorate the birth anniversary of a great visionary, a brave warrior, a just king and the greatest proponent of secularism! It's a day observed with great pomp and celebration in Maharashtra. Sometimes even when the state's coffers cannot afford all the pomp and revelry associated with it. Personally, it is a day of celebrations for me. Not only in memory of Maharashtra's deity but also because it happens to be a dear cousin's birthday.
But 19th February 2011 is a day of additional celebrations! It's the day on which I would be observing two quadrennial celebrations too! The first one is quite obvious! WORLD CUPPPPP! We wait for 4 years for this extravagant show of willow bats and leather balls (forgive the double entendre...I never meant it). Cricket has returned home! The place where a billion plus people are ready to forget their routine, don every shade of blue, paint the tricolour on their cheeks and roar Indiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Indiaaaaaa! The country is united only on two occasions- War and a Cricket Match. It is only then that we forget all our differences and support our soldiers (on a battlefield or a cricket field) and cheer them on to smack the enemy or the cricket ball back to where either belong (beyond the boundary). Thousands will rise in stadia to sing impromptu renditions of the National Anthem and to see God take guard. They say it would be our beloved Tendlya's last World Cup. Millions would turn out on the streets of Mumbai (a la Tahrir square) to stop him from retiring. I, like everyone else, would want him to play forever. Let's leave the decision to him.
The second quadrennial celebration was a complete surprise for me. I never knew that 19th February is my blog's anniversary! I just happened to come across this fact a month ago. It has been 4 years since I first occupied space on the blogosphere! Can't believe it! 4 reasons to celebrate!
Hoping to see fireworks in the form of runs by Sachin Tendulkar at Dhaka! A solemn bow to the memory of an ideal ruler. A happy blogoversary to my blog! And a very very happy 24th to Aditya (Bro, that's a multiple of 4! With 4 at units place too!)! Have a great birthday!
I'll end the post with a few lines for Team India. I never thought I would quote Jawaharlal Nehru on this occasion.
"The appointed day has come - the day appointed by destiny - and India stands forth again, after long slumber and struggle, awake, vital, free and independent. The past clings on to us still in some measure and we have to do much before we redeem the pledges we have so often taken. Yet the turning point is past, and history begins anew for us, the history which we shall live and act and others will write about."
-Jawaharlal Nehru,15th August 1947
Bajake chutki, dhul chatade...De Ghumake!
But 19th February 2011 is a day of additional celebrations! It's the day on which I would be observing two quadrennial celebrations too! The first one is quite obvious! WORLD CUPPPPP! We wait for 4 years for this extravagant show of willow bats and leather balls (forgive the double entendre...I never meant it). Cricket has returned home! The place where a billion plus people are ready to forget their routine, don every shade of blue, paint the tricolour on their cheeks and roar Indiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Indiaaaaaa! The country is united only on two occasions- War and a Cricket Match. It is only then that we forget all our differences and support our soldiers (on a battlefield or a cricket field) and cheer them on to smack the enemy or the cricket ball back to where either belong (beyond the boundary). Thousands will rise in stadia to sing impromptu renditions of the National Anthem and to see God take guard. They say it would be our beloved Tendlya's last World Cup. Millions would turn out on the streets of Mumbai (a la Tahrir square) to stop him from retiring. I, like everyone else, would want him to play forever. Let's leave the decision to him.
The second quadrennial celebration was a complete surprise for me. I never knew that 19th February is my blog's anniversary! I just happened to come across this fact a month ago. It has been 4 years since I first occupied space on the blogosphere! Can't believe it! 4 reasons to celebrate!
Hoping to see fireworks in the form of runs by Sachin Tendulkar at Dhaka! A solemn bow to the memory of an ideal ruler. A happy blogoversary to my blog! And a very very happy 24th to Aditya (Bro, that's a multiple of 4! With 4 at units place too!)! Have a great birthday!
I'll end the post with a few lines for Team India. I never thought I would quote Jawaharlal Nehru on this occasion.
"The appointed day has come - the day appointed by destiny - and India stands forth again, after long slumber and struggle, awake, vital, free and independent. The past clings on to us still in some measure and we have to do much before we redeem the pledges we have so often taken. Yet the turning point is past, and history begins anew for us, the history which we shall live and act and others will write about."
-Jawaharlal Nehru,15th August 1947
Bajake chutki, dhul chatade...De Ghumake!
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