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ASSEMBLY POLL '98
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'Khurasia gets a chance and delivers. But how long can he survive?'
E-mail from readers the world over
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 12:57:43 +0530 Not all the police in New Delhi know great things about many people. For them these people are troubleshooters, and they feel they deserve what they gave. Something like Serbia will soon erupt here. The cow belt people do not want to know anything other than their problems. Narmada is a fine case in point. Nagesh Nayak
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 16:06:29 +1000 All the points made by Professor Manoharan are most valid. I wish to add one vital point and another important point. 1. Even in the best Indian academic institutions there is little connection between the real life as it is lived outside and the academic content. Social expectations cannot be separated from academics. Students enter Indian universities not to become scholars but to find better employment; it is as if society owes them first the education then a lucrative job after education. Students in our universities will be aghast if their social responsibility is suggested to them. This wide gulf between the academic curricula and the real life is the main source of mediocrity. In short, students look at universities as tickets to better employment and the administrators look upon it as source of employment. It doesn't serve the vital role served by universities in the West. It serves this purpose here because they originated here and were designed to serve their need. The days of "Arts for Arts' sake" and "Science for Science's sake" are over; scholarship has to have a social focus. Provide our universities with a social focus and the situation will begin to rectify. 2. When I look at the faculty, at good academic institutions, and then their salary I am shocked. A very ordinary programmer now a days earns twice a professor's salary and a well connected programmer can earn ten times a professor's salary. In many academic institutions the calibre of academics is second to none in the world and yet their salaries are ridiculously low. I agree that there is a software boom and software people attract higher salaries. Looking at the situation in Australia a well connected programmer may earn twice that of an academic but not ten times as in India. And yet Indian academics often are of a very high calibre. Indian society like the West is now moving towards measuring a person's worth in monetary terms; there is no need to penalise selfless academics who chose to dedicate their life to academic scholarship. Himanshu
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 18:11:15 +1000 Jayalalitha has lost her Sense and Sensibility and only shown her Pride and Prejudice. Rama
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 12:42:00 +0530 Please convey this to Jayalalitha that her ENGINE is USEFUL only when there is a TRAIN! If there is no train, the engine is useless! Moreover, if there is another workshop to make a train, she can be very well be confident that she will neither have a bogey, a wagon nor an engine! She should understand that the country is not sleeping and another general election should be footed by her only! Yogesh Jajoo
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 07:23:45 -0700 The armed forces does have a weapon to discipline its erring officers, why was that not invoked? For your knowledge it is called Court Martial. Your naive way of Rasta Roko did not consider all the options before you fired the naval chief. In a democracy there has to be openness on all issues. Your national secret is just hog wash; even your own family does not believe in those lies. If it was such a important thing nationally then a half baked educated guy would not be the one to understand it anyway. Reinstate Bhagwat and eat your humble pie.
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 09:55:50 -0800 You echoed my thoughts and those of almost all of us who grew up on Phantom and Mandrake. It was an innocent world, or we were innocent at that time, and nothing else seems as riveting or as real anymore. < Medha Karandikar
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 09:20:42 -0800 Thank you for that whiff of nostalgia. Articles such as this are what makes me such a fan of Rediff.com. I had enough of reading the works of people who are so completely full of their own ideologies and traditions that they have to keep throwing it out at us. Actually I have not gone past Varsha B's headlines for a long long time. Thank you Mr Sanghvi for bringing my childhood alive again. Though I'm not your generation, I was a great fan of "Fanum"; I've spent many a rainy-lazy afternoon reading all about Phantom ,Devil and Hero. I have always wanted a horse ever since!!
Vinay N Das
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 20:15:39 +0530 It was unusual to read Vir Sanghvi on a subject other than politics. However, I couldn't resist reading a column on the superhero I grew up relating so strongly to, as have so many Indians. As a child, the only ambition I remember having is to grow up and make a full length feature film on The Phantom. With each passing year, however, reality took over and that ambition remained the childhood dream that it was. Reading Sanghvi's column about the interaction he had with Falk made me relive that dream again for a few minutes.... Thanks, Sanghvi.
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 1995 13:54:47 +0530 You are great and you make India great. Keep it up. Viswakaus
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 09:55:19 -0700 That is amazing... I still cannot believe that .... Hey, you guys can put this movie on Rediff in Real Video for the globe to admire... Ninad
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 10:00:16 -0700 As far as I know this is not new. About 10 years back a movie was made in Kannada in 24 hours. Dinesh Babu directed the movie and had the cast of Ananth Nag, Shankar Nag, Ramesh, Revathi, Tiger Prabhakar, Mahalakshmi etc. Venkatesh
Date: Wednesday, March 31, 1999 3:57 PM The above mentioned write-up by you was words of wisdom to those who are so eager to crucify the captain for any and all failures. Thank you very much. Whenever India has won, it was either Sachin, or Ganguly or Dravid or someone who has won it. But whenever we have lost, it is only and only because of the captain. I fail to understand this. Can one become the winningest captain in the history of the country just by chance? Azhar has on so many occasions won a match just on his own as a batsman. But only those who understand cricket from its inside will know how India has won so many matches only due to Azhar's last minute and unexpected moves as a captain. Never has anybody applauded that. Which is a shame. After 14, 15 years of selfless dedication to the team, people have so little to talk about our skipper in a positive tone. What is more disheartening is that even former Test players and champions who know the game so well leave no chance to pounce upon the soft spoken and most humble Azza. They all want him to behave like themselves. He doesn't. No wonder, he is the most successful of them all. From someone who sees cricket beyond the television screen
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 03:09:47 -0800 I was surprised to find Khurasia's name in the Indian eleven yesterday. Surprised because though he has good technique, temperament, good performance he lacks the most important ingredients for selection into Indian team: 1. He doesn't have strong zonal representation (he comes from an unheard state of MP and have an unknown selector named Pandove). 2. He doesn't have the right connections. It must have been a very painful decision for Lele, Wadekar, Yadav and company. Looks like they had exhausted all their options. After all, they have tried 38 players in the last 18 months (after Khurasia's 117* in 107 balls against Australia). It is said that if you keep performing well you will ultimately get a chance. However, it might be many years, many Tests and many ODIs late. You might be past your prime by then. In 1993, Khurasia performed very well in the domestic series and was selected to play for India 'A'. Much to the shock of the selectors he made a century against visiting England. But our bold selectors conveniently ignored this inning by this 20-year-old lad from MP. Khurasia should have got the signal then and should have shifted to a state with 'right connections'. But he was stupid enough and paid the price as he was completely sidelined for many years. His next chance came against Australia in 1998 and he scored 117 not out on 107 balls. But that was once again of no use, as in the next 3 months the selectors tried 26 players, but not Khurasia. Then he was taken to Malaysia where he scored the highest runs among Indians (including Tendulkar and Jadeja), he scored the highest in the Challenger Cup after that. But the selectors once again preferred Laxman (the man with the right connections) who till then had continuously failed in 7 ODIs and 3 Commonwealth matches. This year Khurasia performed great in domestic tournaments, his state Madhya Pradesh won 3 championships and the selectors finally gave up after trying the likes of Laxman. So, 27-year-old Khurasia finally found himself in the 14 member Indian team. Prior to this tournament we had an exhibition match in which Khurasia scored a rapid-fire 77 runs that was once again not enough to convince the team management to play him in the final eleven. But some players failed, some became unfit and the selectors exhausted all their excuses. In his first match he has made 57 in 45 balls and can hope to be selected for one more. Should he fail in the next match he will be sent back to MP for good as our dear selectors still have many favourites to give the India cap to. Ignored by the selectors, overlooked by the experts (?), Khurasia gets a chance and delivers. But how long can he survive? He should remember that he is no Laxman (Azhar), Jadeja (Raj Singh) or Dravid (remember his 23 consecutive ODI failures). One failure and his international cricket career will go down the drain.
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 12:42:36 -0500 Dear Harsha: After a very hectic Monday and three quick games of bowling with my team mates, a quick dinner and permission from my wife, I went to a friend's place to watch live cricket. Watch live cricket after more than six years. Though I have been keeping myself abreast with what is happening around the cricketing world, thanks to the wide world web and pirated video cassettes of the matches, it's a different feeling altogether sitting before the television watching it live with your friends. I could not agree more with all your commentary team about Jadeja's talent being more visible either at the 4 or 5 position. My goodness, it was pleasure to see Amay Khurasia's confidence from the onset of his marvelous innings. It was unfortunate to see Ramesh and Dravid miscuing their pull shots. Though I missed the most part of Ramesh's innings, he was also bubbling with enthusiasm and confidence. Of course, Ganguly played what he does best, an anchoring role and steadying the innings. As we all know Agarkar is one of India's best finds in the recent past in the bowling department. If he keeps his health, he will be a tremendous hit and confidence booster to our team. Hopefully, the trend of winning will continue. I would love to see them win; on the other hand even if they did not win, it would be nice to see a competitive effort from everybody in the team and as a team. Let me take this opportunity to thank your Rediff team for providing such a wonderful home page with spectrum of information from the homeland. Kalyana Kakani
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