What is so great about South Africa, that makes it in-vulnerable to an election? Or what is so bad in India that makes it vulnerable to IPL? South Africa had their general elections on 22 nd April. The day when Deccan Chargers won their 2 nd match thanks to Adam Gilchrist & Rohit Sharma’s exploits. ( Click for match info ) While elections - and the fear of a security lapse were the main concerns to shift the IPL to SA, how come it could be managed so well in SA. This debate would have already suffered the fate of a once fearsome cobra ending up as a soup in a street side ‘thela’ in Cape Town; but guess the after-taste is keeping the cobra from a peaceful digestion. Agreed that the magnitude of elections, the size of the electorate, the cultural diversity, civic apathy etc are insurmountable walls of difference between the two countries. Just statistic is enough to kill the debate on similarity of the two nations - India is twenty times larger (over 1 billion peopl...
Year round, month round, week round, day round and the second starting now, it is crap all around. Dimensions of this element vary on how much you can see it. From attitudes to beliefs, characters to symbols, everything is being done for something else - often it is not said, and more than often, it is a subterfuge.To unravel the mysteries of this element, as I see it, is the intention of this pastime activity. For an extremely cynical ad executive, the blog world has called out. Crapediem!