Yeh taara, woh taara..

Posts with questions have become rare and the blog has become dull. Readers have deserted the blog and blogger.com is complaining.. (well, not really). But as we all know one cannot force oneself to write. It just has to happen. A topic should click and thoughts should flow in words. I may have free online space but I may not write every week. Just like.. you can pay the Deccan chargers, but you can't guarantee they will win. No offence for or against. More on IPL later..

After watching Taar Zameen Par and the little kid having extra ordinary talent and all that, I guess all of us would have spent a day or two, going back to childhood days, thinking what we were really good at, but once into the realm of competitive exams, forgot our true passions and have now ended up before 20 inch LCD monitors, coding in Java and giving (only) the carpals some exercise.

Guys, my suggestion is - don't think too much about "that talent you had". My personal experience says there wasn't one really. Because if there was one, we would already be pursuing that, rather than doing what all the million students in your batch are now doing. The truth is, yes, there were taare on zameen, but there were pedh, paththar and not to forget, phool also on zameen.. The movie was just about taare, and let’s wait for movies about the rest (of us) :)

But there are exceptions, I agree. Some of those talents you had, were not in demand back then and you ended up in the rat race. Like that old friend of yours, who used to hit every ball outside the park and later couldn't make it to the cricket team because he did not have a 'strong defensive shot'. Kya kare, the requirements were lot different back then. But I am sure, you would have found him already in one of the IPL teams - he has become a King or a super king or an Indian or a knight rider now.. I am sure. And is now a taara.

Well, who knows, we might as well get a chance some day when 'that' talent we had becomes the need of the hour, courtesy innovative ideas like the IPL. IPL ... Everyone talks about it these days, about the players, the money, the owners(or what do you call the SRK likes). I am a fan too. I like the cricket, the energy, the tense games. But who do I support? There is nothing Deccan about the chargers and neither is anything Indianish about the Indians. In games I understood little about, I would always support the stronger one (like Federer or Tiger Woods) and feel happy that the one I supported has won. But this one, it is getting too fuzzy. I guess it’s because of the nature of the game and the way things can turn upside down any moment.

Whatever it is, we get to see great matches, and the love of the game has increased like ever as every match passes by. Thanks to IPL.

And there is a thing or two to learn from the IPL matches. About how players from otherwise rival teams come together crossing geographical, lingual and racial borders and fight for one common goal - to win. I really appreciate the passion these players have for the game, and for victory. It just supersedes everything else...the love for the game.

So..coming back to our original topic.. what was I good at as a kid :-? ??????!!! Let me think, find some answers and go find out if there is any search going on now for those kinds of 'talent's ..