A lot has been written about friends and friendship. Still there’s
a lot that can be written. This goes true for any relationship in one’s life. The
relationship of a daughter-father, mother- daughter, mother-son and father-son are
one of its kinds as these are blood relations.
But, the one that comes immediately after this is the
relationship between two friends. The person who has friends is never alone. And
in these days of online ‘friendship’ it is highly impossible to be left alone.
People may not communicate with each other face-to-face, but are
glued to mobiles and computers for hours together ‘speaking’ with each other. Well,
if the downside of mobiles and similar gadgets is that people are meeting other
friends in person, the upside is that, they still aren’t alone in this world as
technology tears down any physical boundaries.
That said, we aren’t moving in the tech direction here. What we
are focusing on is the way friends come forward to help each other, when...
Ajinkya Rahane to Lead Team India in Zimbabwe
♠ Posted by Abhijit Bangal in Ajinkya Rahane,India-Zimbabwe series 2015
An expected leader came to the fore
in the form of Ajinkya Rahane, when he was selected as the captain of the Indian
team that will travel to Zimbabwe next month for a bilateral series.
This will be the second-string Indian
team where all the senior players will be rested. The big names that are rested
are ODI captain M S Dhoni, Virat Kohli – the test captain. Three specialist
batsmen – Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan and Suresh Raina are also asked to rest.
In the bowling department, Umesh
Yadav and R Ashwin will also be absent from the tour. The team director, Ravi
Shastri will also not travel to Zimbabwe next month. And due to his bad patch on
the field with both the bat and the ball, Ravindra Jadeja has been dropped.
Sandip Patil, who is the chairman
of the selectors, said that the BCCI does not give rest to the players. That is
the reason why they could send a full-strength team to the neighboring Bangladesh
even after the World Cup got over recently.
Clarifying on those...
Finally A Respite for The Bowlers – No Powerplays Now
Finally, there’s good news for
bowlers now. They will now get some respite from the ever attacking batsmen. ICC
has taken a decision to scrap the powerplay rules. Some of the key changes made
by the international governing body are allowing keeping five fielders outside the
30-yard circle for the last 10 overs.
The changes include allowing not having
fielders in the catching position for the initial 10 overs. Another important change
is in the free hits regarding the no-ball rule. Before this, free hits were
allowed only when the bowler would over-step. But now, a free hit will always be
on from any type of no-ball.
The changes are for ODIs and T20 internationals
and will come into effect from July 5.
Bowlers are the ones who always
face the brunt at the hands of batsmen in both these formats of the game. However,
now they will get some backup in the form of the fifth bowler outside the inner
ring for the final 10 overs. Until now, there were only four players in the
death...
The other day a thought came to my mind...
♠ Posted by Abhijit Bangal
The other day a thought came to my
mind
How much pain a mother feels
When her young one is hurt
Why can't other foods you can find
A living being someone kills
In your tummy you put all the dirt
There’s so much tastier of many a
kind
Carry it on the mountains or the
hills
Advocate veg and make a good advert
Don't forget to read my Haiku on Embrace Veg Diet!
This is another of my attempt to write something in a poetry form to advocate vegetarian food. The lines have a rhyme that follow the a-b-c, a-b-c, a-b-c sequence in the three stanzas...
Haiku - Embrace Veg Diet - A Campaign
♠ Posted by Abhijit Bangal
My first ever attempt on Haiku for making this an inspirational post to give up on non-veg diet and embrace veg food.
What’s so delicious
In tasting some living being
Shame shame shame, human being
I have nominated two ladies for
this – Shweta Dave and Maniparna Sengupta Majumdar and my friend Vinay
Nagaraju. Vinay always has inspirational posts on his blog. I hope through Shweta
and Maniparna’s haiku poems they will be able to make a difference.
Shweta Dave blogs at Sunshine and Zephyr
Maniparna Sengupta Majumdar blogs at Scattered Thoughts
Vinay Nagaraju blogs at Inspire99
And...