Best Quotes about Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin Tendulkar - GOD of Cricket

Sachin Tendulkar has carried the burden of the nation for 21 years. It is time we carried him on our shoulders- Virat Kohli after India won the 2011 World Cup

"I have seen God, he bats at no. 4 in Tests for India"- Matthew Hayden

"There are 2 kind of batsmen in the world. One Sachin Tendulkar. Two all the others"- Andy Flower

"We did not lose to a team called India...we lost to a man called Sachin" -Mark Taylor, during the test match in Chennai (1997)

I'll be going to bed having nightmares of Sachin just running down the wicket and belting me back over the head for six. He was unstoppable. I don't think anyone, apart from Don Bradman, is in the same class as Sachin Tendulkar. He is just an amazing player- Shane Warne

I think he is marvellous. I think he will fit in whatever category of Cricket that has been played or will be played, from the first ball that has ever been bowled to the last ball that's going to be. He can play in any era and at any level. I would say he's 99.5% perfect- Viv Richards on Sachin Tendulkar

He has defined cricket in his fabulous, impeccable manner. He is to batting what Shane Warne is to bowling-Richie Benaud

If I've to bowl to Sachin, I'll bowl with my helmet on. He hits the ball so hard-Dennis Lillee

Sachin is a genius. I'm a mere mortal- Brian Lara

Don't bowl bad balls he hits the good ones for fours-Michael Kasprowicz

Nothing bad can happen to us if we're on a plane in India with Sachin Tendulkar on it- Hashim Amla

Sachin was so focused. He never looked like getting out. He was batting with single-minded devotion. It was truly remarkable. It was a lesson- Martina Navratilova

I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for allowing us to breathe the same air as you do- Shahrukh Khan

The thing I like the most about Sachin is his intensity. After being in the game for so long, he still has the same desire to do well for India in any international match. I tell you what, this man is a legend¬- Sourav Ganguly

He can play that leg glance with a walking stick also- Waqar Younis

Sachin Tendulkar is, in my time, the best player without doubt - daylight second, Brian Lara third-Shane Warne

Sachin is cricket's God- Barry Richards

 "Cricket is our Religion" "Sachin is our GOD"

20 things common to all engg colleges:

1_The lecturers dont teach.The students dont study.The only guy who benefits is the one who owns the 'dhaba' next to the college.

2_Rules are made to be broken.

3_Promises too break

4_Deadlines are made to be extended...ALWAYS!

5_Guys always think the chics in the college next lane are more beautiful.

6_The geeks are the most pampered lot during the internal exams.

7_The lab assistants are the most respected people(during the lab exams i.e)

8_The watchmen are the people most bribed.

9_The HOD is the person most respected(heights of sycophancy here).

10_The principal is the person most abused and insulted(behind the back i.e)

11_Dropping subjects is 'cool'.(arre yaar..drop the idea of dropping subjects plzz).

12_There is always a lecturer in the college who cant speak proper 'english'.

13_Night-out is the second most important tool to ace the exams.

14_The most important tool..the bhramastra..is the 'chit' in which the words can be understood only by the person who wrote them(in most of the cases i.e)

15_The freshers are the most sought after..be it in the canteen,the 'free' periods or for completing the records,assignments.

16_The second-years are the ones with the 'I am the don-of-the-college' feeling.

17_The third years are the ones with the 'so-many-backlogs' feeling and the poor souls get down to studying after bossing around in the college for so long.but the fun still continues.

18_The fourth years have no connection with the college whatsoever...with no interest in ragging,pulling each other`s legs,the bday parties,the bday bums et al which they enjoyed so much till now.All they want is a good placement and a '1st-class' tag attached to their memo.

19_The first three years are spent in cursing the college,the people there,the system et al.

20_But towards the end of the fourth year,people tend to feel nostalgic abt the pure unadulterated fun they have had for 4 years.Now the very system they disliked,the very canteen they cursed,the time that they spent there,the bday bums they suffered..all these seem like heaven to them. 

I'm not twenty-four? I've been nineteen for five years?

The book makes an amazing read for all but might charm the youth who are in the transition stage i.e. from college to companies. If you are among those who don't like reading or think, then this book would be a great starter.

FROM THE author of best selling novel ‘A Sunny shady life' (2009) comes an interesting and intriguing story yet again. Author Sachin Garg’s books are inspired by intricacies of life and his novels are known to leave the reader with a long lasting hangover and his latest ‘I’m not twenty four...I’ve been nineteen for five years…” is a perfect example of this.

 

On reading the first four pages you suspect that it is one of those novels based on sudden changes in life of a horny male protagonist after campus recruitments but as the story moves, the fifth page itself makes this novel way apart from the others as the protagonist this time is a female.

This story revolves around a female character ‘Soumya’ who is mistaken to be a male due to her unisexual name by the HR of the company and thrown to a small township of Toranagallu in the interiors of Karnataka as an employee of Lala Steel.

 

The book encapsulates this typical Delhi girl’s experiences in a ‘Fourth World’ leading to a 360 degree change in her life.

 

She meets many new people like Malappa, who becomes her good friend and Shubhro in whom she finds her true love but despite this, she faces a tough time at Toranagallu.

 

Tracking the story line, Soumya, a college girl of Delhi gets a job in an interior part of Karnaraka and is put on one of the most challenging tasks. Soon signs of her failure at the job become quite evident and finally unfortunate death of Malappa makes her leave the job and she starts serving her three months notice period in the HR department.

 

At this moment when she is completely disoriented with life, there comes a fresh breeze of air in her life in the form of Shubhro, who is a Hippi moving from place to place exactly after every three months without hinting the people around him about his next destination.

 

In due course of time, Soumya starts loving Shubhro and in return he also proposes her but only on his last day at Toranagallu and leaves the next morning to continue his journey. Soumya is shattered but for the first time, takes a mature decision to continue working with Lala Steel. It is much later i.e. after two weeks that through an extraordinary incident, she learns the truth about Shubhro, who was travelling not for fun but for a noble mission.

 

To know more about this mysterious Shubhro and his wonderful mission, the reason behind Malappa’s death and how Soumya finds her first love, read this wonderful journey of love, hate, romance and respect, all encapsulated in one book ‘I’m not twenty four...I’ve been nineteen for five years…”

 

It is an easy to read book with not much emphasis on grammar and language but on emotions and narration. One has to read though the pages to understand the story’s intensity. The book succeeds in holding the reader’s attention through effectively narrating extraordinary incidents that take place in a typical Delhi girl’s life after she is displaced to some interior village of Karnataka.

 

The book talks about serious subjects like the differences between North India and South India and the beliefs they hold against each other in a very subtle manner. The book often draws parallel between quite and silent life at Toranagallu in some interior part of Karnataka to that of hustling- bustling Delhi. Moreover, it highlights the transition in a city youth’s life as he/she enters in a job after their glamorous posh college life.

 

The author goes a long way and provides interesting titles to the chapters, which give a deeper meaning once you read them. He meticulously pens down the emotions of Soumya, Shubhro and Malappa.

 

The story of these characters is woven in such a way that the reader feels angry for Malappa’s tragedy; sympathize with Soumya’s state and loves Shubhro’s mission. Although Soumya is the protagonist but Shubhro’s character and his words “Life is not a sprint. It is a marathon” mesmerizes the reader and leaves a long lasting impression on them.

 

The book lives up to its name i.e. I’m not twenty- four… I’ve been nineteen for five years… as the character of Soumya is very bubbly in the beginning and she refused to behave like adults even at the age of twenty- four. But four months at Toranagallu change her so much that the same Soumya who wanted to run away from that small township decides to continue her job and that too in the Social Service department. She actually starts behaving like a 24-year old adult female thus living up to the title “I’m not twenty- four… I’ve been nineteen for five years…” and after reading the book, one could complete the half sentence by adding “…till I reached Toranagallu.”

 

So go and grab a copy for yourself and enjoy Soumya’s journey in the fourth world. This 223-page novel is brought out by Shristi Publishers.

Women now enjoy cricket as much as men do

IT IS a popular cliché that women and cricket do not get along. But, it is no more the truth because women now get along really well with cricket and they can be seen enjoying the game as much as their male counterparts. 

 

They too love cricket like men do. And, it is not just actresses like Preity Zinta and Shilpa Shetty, who are involved with cricket but the college going girls too. Throughout the World Cup matches, whenever India had a match, colleges across Delhi bore a deserted look. Much to ones disbelief, similar was the sight in girls’ college.

 

In the group round, most of India’s matches were on Sundays therefore nobody knew how excited the girls were initially in the tournament. However as India proceeded in the championship the World Cup fever also began to rise among them. Outside the classes and inside the canteen, cricket was the hottest topic for discussion or gossip.

 

“I love Dhoni”, “Daniel Vettori is so cute”, ‘I am crazy for Bret lee” are lines nobody can miss hearing when passing Nescafe outlets or canteens in colleges.

 

The most interesting sight was on the mornings of March 30 and April 2, i.e the day of semifinal and final, when many girls had painted their cheeks with the colours of the Indian National Flag. It was a gesture to express their support, love and excitement, or maybe madness for the sport which is everything but a sport for Indians.

 

Since the quarter-final match between Australia and India all the teachers knew where their students would be. Some girls chose to sit at home and wait for the match. Some chose to attend the morning lectures and leave as soon as possible. It was a clear choice, Matches over classes.

 

Even the section of working women didn’t miss the action when the Indian cricket team was making history. In fact many of them were speaking to radio channels about the excuses, which they planned to tell their bosses so that they could get a holiday on the day of semifinal and final.

 

Women have emerged as the new ‘Crazy for Cricket’ section of population. They are deeply into their newfound love. And, hopefully this bond will get stronger with the current IPL season.

Will IPL4 steal Anna Hazare's limelight?

The Indian media is like Bollywood's Box Office - every Friday there's a change of story. The Anna Hazare-led anti-corruption campaign faces a media coverage face-off today as the fourth edition of the IPL Twenty-20 kicks off in Chennai.

THE ‘STAND-OFF’ between anti-corruption protestors and the union government is delicately poised – both politically and on the basis of media coverage. From April 8 onwards this may not be the case because the media is likely to turn their cameras and pens to the glamourous and equally intense IPL.

 

This is not just a matter of conjecture. One speaks from precedence of how stories reach a crescendo and then taper off when another one breaks. 

For the media the question will be how and how much resources should be allocated to two competing events – as both the anti-corruption protests and IPL4 are pan-India as well as confined to the larger cities of the country.

 

It will be interesting to see how the anti-corruption protest proceed in the face of a fragmented media agenda. Will it be anti-corruption protests in the morning and IPL4 in the evenings? After all, both events, today, boast of ‘star presence’, star support, and numerous talking points.

 

Since the anti-corruption protests are depending on national media, which has become a via media and a semi-official intermediary between the protestors and the government - Anna Hazare and his supporters will have to vie for attention with the IPL - given the fact that the media’s focus is likely to shift to the IPL, which has become a national and global brand within the mega brand of international cricket.

 

If what advertisements have been predicting - “India will remain closed because the IPL is on” - come anywhere near coming true - then the fate of the anti-corruption story, in terms of its pan-India daily media coverage, could be sealed.

 

For the UPA government, which has already acceded certain “breakthrough” demands of anti-corruption and social activists led by Arjun Kejriwal and Anna Hazare - the distraction caused by IPL 4 will come as a welcome breather.

Daily stories beginning April 8 on the IPL will find ready audience in national and local press, and the government might go into a freeze mode.

 

The point of debate is not why the Indian media drops and takes up stories like a hot potato. The point is the way they go about shifting gears at the cost of staying with an important story – in spite of competing stories. Should Anna Hazare time the timeline of the anti-corruption protest based on the attention span of the India media?

 

Why should a highly consumerized event displace an event of national importance in media coverage – in case such a thing takes place? In a few days we will know if the IPL steals Anna’s thunder.

What next?... the big question of our lives- Prof. B.P. Giridhar

Date : 09-04-2012

What next ? is the big question in all our life. Everyone does not have answer to this question so I was also confused about it. But our respected Vice chancellor Prof. B.P. giridhar Enlightened us today with his great views.

Today an interactive session was held at New H.M. Hall from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM for B.tech Civil Engineering 6th and 8th semester.The session was mainly focused on career planning. It was cleary a success because it cleared many doubt and misconceptions of students about there future.To our advantage Our vice chancellor sir is also from Civil Engineering field so he can Guide all of us in best ways.He completed is graduation in the year 1978 and post graduation in the year 1982.

Most of student are not even clear about the main  difference between the term’CAREER’ and ’JOB’.The first question which he asked all of us was the difference between career and job. First he heard the views of many student but none was able to satisfy him. After that he explained the difference with the two examples which he had witnessed personaly.

As explained by him job is any task  which is assigned to us and require our skills and we are are rewarded on the basis of our performance. On the other hand Career needs a long term planning and it may require us to take up many jobs to reach our final aim which is already planned in advance. The example sir gave was of his sisters son whose progress he have been seeing since his birth.He said that when this boy was graduating I asked him that what he want to do with life so he answered in simple word that I want to be an enterpreneur at the age of 30. So he graduated in the field of electronics and communication,after that he was placed in a very good  electronics company. He served there for two years then he changed the company to Robert and Bosch after working for them for few months he  was selected for a 9 month training in germany. So  during this whole journey he had learned a lot about how the engineering Industry . Now he decided to do MBA in finance from Harvard University which he successfully achieved. Now he was ready with lots of experience and knowledge about this field to start his own company. And he is now successfully running his electronics company in many countries.

So in above case the final destination was already set where that boy had to reach so he worked according to some set plans in his mind.So we should work in our life with some set goals and predefined task in our mind what we have to achieve. We should always go for excellence in life.

Sir also gave us many of his life experiences which were truly  benefitial to all the students.I think all of the student have now got a direction were they are heading in life.

In the end I want to quote few lines :

When ambition exceeds performance, The gap is called Frustration..

When the performance exceeds ambition, The overlap is called success..!

10 things to know about Anna Hazare and Jan Lok Pal Bill

1. Who is Anna Hazare?

An ex-army man. Fought 1965 Indo-Pak War

2. What's so special about him?

He built a village Ralegaon Siddhi in Ahamad Nagar district, Maharashtra

3. So what?

This village is a self-sustained model village. Energy is produced in the village itself from solar power, biofuel and wind mills.

In 1975, it used to be a poverty clad village. Now it is one of the richest village in India. It has become a model for self-sustained, eco-friendly & harmonic village.

4. Ok,...?

This guy, Anna Hazare was awarded Padma Bhushan and is a known figure for his social activities.

5. Really, what is he fighting for?

He is supporting a cause, the amendment of a law to curb corruption in India.

6. How that can be possible?

He is advocating for a Bil, The Jan Lokpal Bill (The Citizen Ombudsman Bill), that will form an autonomous authority who will make politicians (ministers), beurocrats (IAS/IPS) accountable for their deeds.

8. It's an entirely new thing right..?

In 1972, the bill was proposed by then Law minister Mr. Shanti Bhushan. Since then it has been neglected by the politicians and some are trying to change the bill to suit thier theft (corruption).

7. Oh.. He is going on a hunger strike for that whole thing of passing a Bill ! How can that be possible in such a short span of time?

The first thing he is asking for is: the government should come forward and announce that the bill is going to be passed.

Next, they make a joint committee to DRAFT the JAN LOKPAL BILL. 50% goverment participation and 50% public participation. Because you cant trust the government entirely for making such a bill which does not suit them.

8. Fine, What will happen when this bill is passed?

A LokPal will be appointed at the centre. He will have an autonomous charge, say like the Election Commission of India. In each and every state, Lokayukta will be appointed. The job is to bring all alleged party to trial in case of corruptions within 1 year. Within 2 years, the guilty will be punished. Not like, Bofors scam or Bhopal Gas Tragedy case, that has been going for last 25 years without any result.

9. Is he alone? Whoelse is there in the fight with Anna Hazare?

Baba Ramdev, Ex. IPS Kiran Bedi, Social Activist Swami Agnivesh, RTI activist Arvind Kejriwal and many more.

Prominent personalities like Aamir Khan is supporting his cause.

10. Ok, got it. What can I do?

At least we can spread the message. How?

Putting status message, links, video, changing profile pics.

At least we can support Anna Hazare and the cause for uprooting corruption from India.

At least we can hope that his Hunger Strike does not go in vain.

At least we can pray for his good health.