Jingoistic Indian

Friend is a Four Letter Word

No this is not one of those blogs where I talk about how I HATE my friends. In fact its the opposite. Rather this blog is about how I HATE well.. HATE..

It's a matter of shame that I live in a country where HATE is as rampant as Aids. Absolutely despicable. Its in our hearts, in our homes, on our televisions. But you know something is really wrong when HATE reaches so called "fair games" like Cricket. Well its a shameful and disgusting period in history. Sport is no longer fair and free of HATE

The recent IPL auction for players puts any false ideas of love aside. In fact, cricket is no longer a sport of innocent and well intentioned fun. Its a business after all. It's quite clear. Especially with the exclusion of Pakistani players in any of the IPL teams.

No this is not discrimination against Muslims. Its discrimination against Pakistani's and ultimately against humanity.

When did cricket get so political. And don't tell me it didn't. Don't give me the following excuses:

a. "There are no good players in the Pakistani team"- Oh Really? Then how do you explain Pakistan being the top team at the T20 level? How do you explain Shahid Afridi being the Man of the Series at the T20 championships in 2009? What about Mohammed Aamer or Umar Gul?

b. "Pakistani players are not available for the specified dates": What lies. really. Come up with a better excuse. I mean my favorite team, DC, bought West Indian Kemar Roach for $ 610,000. And guess what he isn't even going to be playing the first 2 games because of prior commitments. Go figure. Even the top brass of the Aussie team and the entire England team are not available. But that's a genuine excuse, not a shady one.

c. "It's a security concern": Okay so a few Pakistanis jumped on a boat and had easy access to the Bombay coast. It was an obvious security malfunction at a national level. Tighten your security. Stop terrorists from crossing borders. Not sport.

d. "Letting in one 'paki' will encourage more": Ignorant fool. I wish I could beat some sense into you. Or at least beat you up. Which age are you in? Prehistoric? Are you fighting the crusades?

As for the pro Telenganas and the Shiv Sena's. Get a grip on your fight. Do you even know what you are fighting for.

You Telengana people are fighting for a separate state because you think we Andhraites are stealing all your money and livelihoods from you. Losers. With all your protesting not only have you ruined your chances of getting tourism money from the @home matches, you have lost your dignity and ultimately your goal.

As for you Shiv Senaks. By threatening Aussie players to not enter your state, do you think that the attacks on Indian down under will stop? Really ask yourself will the crime rates drop? I didn't think so.

It's not only these politically motivated parties and alliances. It's people in my own home. My room mates. My special friends. My family. Everyone has something against Pakistan. Why dude? Did you live during partition? Did you experience separation from your family? If not then I don't think your opinion even matters. If you were directly affected by 26/11 then I can excuse your decision for fear. But if you are a modern Indian living in India and living on an old time and tested dynamic of Hate then you need to see a psychiatrist or find other ways to vent your anger.

Don't go on a murdering spree or anything. Write a blog. Don't Stop cricket.

Get over you HATE. Think about what you are losing. Cricket is the one sport which unites us with Australia, England and Pakistan. Technically we should HATE these countries right. As jingoistic Indians. England for the British Raj menace and Pakistan for leaving its big brother to fend for himself. And Australia for letting Indians get beaten up.

But then again you should probably be scared of your quiet passive girlfriend who lets you get away with everything but murder. She is like a volcano waiting to erupt. You should be scared of your neighbor who gets sick of the loud parties, the stench from your house. He might just come and kill you in your sleep. You should be scared of the homeless Eunuch on the street whose been abused by fools like you and who wants sweet unadulterated revenge. What I am basically saying is you should either be scared of everything or not scared at all.

By excluding Pakistani players you may think you are doing a great favor for national security, but for global integrity you are killing it.

What an embaressment. You extend a hand and let Pakistani Players play in the first 2 IPL's. Then you even go to the extent to include 11 of the players in the auction list. And then none of the teams have the balls to go and bid on the players. I'm sure you could have bought 2 awesome Pakistani players for the price of one awesome Shane Bond.

Remember this you jingoistic Indians. You have gone and snubbed not only a cricket team, but an already hostile country. All you needed was to piss off some more Pakistani's. Great going.

In an ideal world Pakistan should just start its own premier league...but it's not an ideal world and you will think twice before trusting a Pakistani.

I guess at the end of all this. All I can say is IPL is run by "professionals" and they are the ones who ultimately decide what is best for the teams and the sport. Even if it means using cricketers for their larger cause.

Right because Shilpa Shetty, Preity Zinta and Shahrukh have a degree in how to handle a cricket team. Totally!

Resist from taking active apart in rude jingoism. However if you feel that by excluding Pakistani players from IPL is good for Indian national security then by all means be a jingo. But leave me out of it. I don't entertain discrimination of any sort. Even for my own country I do not judge a race because of a few miscreants. That was what Hitler did. And now apparently you do too.

That is because you are a Jingoistic Indian.

I leave you with a Mariah Carey song that describes the relationship between Pakistan and India to the T:

Once upon a time
We swore not to say goodbye
Something got a hold of us
And we changed
And you sat alone in pride
And I sat at home and cried
How'd our fairy tale just end up this way?

We went round for round
Til' we knocked love out
We were laying in the ring
Not making a sound
And if that's a metaphor of you and I
Why is it so hard to say goodbye?

I can't wait to hate you
Make you pain like I do
Still can't shake you off
I can't wait to break through these emotional changes
Seems like such a lost cause
I can't wait to face you
Break you down so low there's no place left to go
I can't wait to hate you