2021: A New Beginning Of Fruits of Seed sown long ago
We may all feel that 2020 was all about Pandemic, but was it? ...
The pessimist in me was thinking that…..
But the optimists was thinking well…. Finally something has come along that has allowed us again go to the depths to the resolve that the human race has been known to have.
Resolve to fight | Resolve to keep going | Resolve to survive… come what may…
It all led to one very clear fact… that Charles Darwin: 'theory of evolution' about the survival of the fittest is proven right all over again
The fight against may not be over, but winner surely shall be Human Race….
Survival of the Fittest by adaption is what human race has imbibed in their core DNA. Last year this time we were despairing but year later with some quickly cooked up vaccinations, we are fighting and coming back on our way of life…
19th December 2020… was one such day where Indian Cricket Team faced nothing less than utter decimation, stooping to their lowest cricket total of 36, knew not where to hide…
But….
This But is the possibly the strongest word in the dictionary which changes courses of many outcomes.
India the land of magic to the first world country,,, suddenly started dishing out magic to the Australian team and then it was the turn of English to face the magic..
From that Fateful day till March end… the team India have been dishing out magic and fun is not in the magic but the fact that the magician’s (@Shardul @Washington @Siraj @Pant @oldwarhorse Ashwin @Axa @Ishan and it goes on) have changed more than the magic tricks.
It has been fairy tale ride… almost as if the team coach had decided on 20th Dec that each of the team member has to read @Amish Tripathi @ Melhua and imbibe the fact that
“ Har Ek Mein Hein Mahadev”…
There is not one god… But there is god in each of us… we are all god….
Oh Boy… have the team not taken it to heart this clarion call…
It all looks fairy tailish… but a just small Introspection | Retrospection and one shall find the answers…
First: Nothing happens overnight
Second: Vision on grand scale may not only achieve what it has set out but also may bring lot more benefits that may not have been clearly outlined.
The fearlessness of the today's India cricket team.. all started with 13th July 2002, Natwest Series. India won the Natwest Series, not because the stalwarts played it by the book, but new boys on the block @Kaif& @Yuvraj ran like mercenaries and took India home from 146/5 in 24 Over to 326. In days of 250 being the winning target, India scored 326 in the final over for the win…
But the larger game was not played on the ground but in the player balcony… Sourav Ganguly, pulled out his tshirt baring his torso, hurling #%%%###, this was one of the mother of all tit for tats…
Andrew Flintoff had done the same at Wankhede, our own backyard….running topless on the ground celebrating…
Sourav had the world by the scruff of their neck and said it aloud…
Eye for an Eye, Shirt for a Shirt…
We Indian now shall not stand aside, but fight it out in the street…
And when we win…
We shall celebrate…
Celebrate in your bastion as if it is our backyard…
We are fearless… we are ready for the fight… We are not Sachin | Sourav only.. we are Har Har Mahadev
….There is not one god… But there is god in each of us… we are all god…
Come on….. Stand away or be Blown away……. We are force to be reckoned with
That my friend is when the seeds were sown ..
…Of Defiance| Believing in own Strengths, but then those were early days… seeds needed a good backyard to grow and be nurtured….
Came 2007… and once again the young turks of Indian team lead by Dhoni won the 20-20 inaugural world cup beating our arch rivals Pakistan…
Defining moment came in form of a vision. A vision to popularize | glamourize cricket in form of Indian Premier League and monetize the game in the cricket crazy country through Lalit Modi, (one who has resigned to oblivion, but shall be known always in many ways)
Well it surely has glamourized and monetized the game to a large extent, but one vision that not many saw through is that by familiarizing the world best players to the second and third league local players, the novelty, the awe of facing holdings / garners of the world has gone. Chris Gayle | Ricky Ponting are just your next door buddies during the tournament.
You Strategize | You Compete | You Celebrate with the best of all the world has to offer.
We till now talked about the Beckham | Rooney coming of age through the systematic learning of the club football… 15years in the same system we are also now having our rooneys in form of Bumrah | Ishan Kishan | Paddikal | Rishabh Pant | Surya Kumar Yada | Shardul Thakur and the list goes on…
After plying their trade in IPL, competing with the finest, they come out completely crystalized by the pressure faced.
IPL shall go down in the history of Indian Cricket as one of the biggest defining moments… To me it shall be much bigger event than 1983 world cup | 2002 Natwest Tropy |2007 T20 Word Cup… Bigger than All..
This vision IPL, brought out the fact that we all kept on hearing,, that their lies a Mahadev ( GOD) in all, and yes there is platform to showcase your godliness…
Vision that is this magnanimous shall not only impact the game, tangibly but many more ways intangibly. Today last few months have clearly demonstrated that Sachin | Kohli are not the only ones who wicket shall lose you the game… there are many more Mahadevs in the batting line,,, many more ashwins and bumrahs waiting in the line… to win you the game.
World be Aware….
We are fearless… we are ready for the fight… We are not Sachin | Kohli only.. We are all Mahadev
Come on….. Stand away or be Blown away……. We are force to be reckoned with
And this is not only Cricket...
Who knows such Magnanimous visions of " Make in India" | Audacity to showcase the country as the biggest consumption market and pushing the boundaries of inviting or demanding to manufacture in the country to serve
Vision to Push the Indian Manufacturers to become self reliant...
Who Knows.... come 2030... we may have achieved 50% energy consumption through renewable resources...
Who Knows ... come 2030 we may have many more Tatas | Birlas| acquiring the Tesla| Microsoft of the world.
Who Knows... come 2030... we may have more unicorns starting out in every nook and corners of the country, then the world can keep count
Who Knows ... come 2030... we may have build our nuclear fusion charged energy source
Who Knows... come 2030... the ever optimist in me may look back say... hey... you were not optimist then....