Today is India's 62nd Independence Day - a day spent quite lazily at home - with some net browsing, some TV channel surfing and watching some movies. And ofcourse, talking with parents and mulling over the grim news of the past few weeks - of the untimely deaths of the sons of two of our close family friends...
All the news channels were busy debating about our political degeneration over the years - politicization of religion, the Kashmir crisis, Musharraf's imminent ouster and his probable options now. Michael Phelps' umpteenth Olympic gold and our umpteenth loss in Cricket (and our eternal optimism on the Olympics front...am I being too cynical? Oh no..I have been to some of our National sporting facilities and know for sure that anyone coming out of those places cannot even compete with our neighboring countries let alone qualify for the Olympics) constitutes our sports news. Still remember the 1988 exhibition soccer match between Mohun Bagan and Brazil's Sao Paolo that I happened to see from the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium stands in Delhi..did we lose 20-0, or was it 25-0?? The best part was that I was caught on the TV happily sleeping with my mouth gaping open and apparently the commentator said that my expression said it all about our state in soccer..:) Well, all this is still a much better option than listening to some inane celeb gossip that hogs our other channels. Fortunately, atleast for now, our entertainment channels haven't been able to create products like Britney or Paris Hilton yet..we still have much better things to do than to track the number of times any of our female celebs got pregnant..and I really dread that day when we have our own local versions of those bimbettes..Today's also Anup bhaisaab's birthday. Tomorrow is Rakhi and I'm waiting for Bonnie's rakhi to arrive. We may end up the day tomorrow at Ajay bhai's place...
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