Mother: God's best creation

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While surfing the web, I was mesmerized by a photo in the corner of a page and made me ecstatic to write this article. In the above picture, a mother doing her best to save her child from devastating tsunami hit in 2004.

Mother is the one who nurtures you in her womb for nine months and brings you forth to enjoy the supreme blessing on the earth, that is Life. The title "Mother" can be given to a woman other than a biological parent who fills this role. Motherhood is a symbol of unadulterated love, kindness and forgiveness.

The day of your birth is the day of your mother's re-birth. From then she will be on her duty to guide you throughout your infancy and turns the soft, helpless creature to the powerful and successful YOU. She is the guarding angel protecting you and supporting you, feeling for you and serving for you silently always with a smile on her face. Mildred B. Vermont says “Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love”.

She cries when you cry, she smiles when you are happy, she is hurt when you are in pain, she reaches satiety when you are successful, She lives and dies for you. Before birth you will see this world through her and after you are born, you are her world. We often bound to relax by sharing all our happiness, hurt and worries with our mother, her glittering smile acts as a roborant. Hence T. DeWitt Talmage says "Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries."

Mother is your first teacher to give you copious amount of love, inculcating moral principles, boost your courage to survive in this cruel and harsh world. George Herbert states "One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters."

Mothers Day:

Mother's Day is the occasion to honor the best creation of God on Earth. For a child, every single day should be a Mothers Day. The essence of the meaning of Mother's Day is to shower her with all your love, care and warmth, to help those hands which helped us to overcome all the hiccups, to stand by the person who stood like a rock in our lean and mean days and to assure her that she really means the world to us. make this day every year a memorable one for your mother. She should cherish the special feeling of this day and the intensity of that feeling should last her the lifetime.

This is the day to remember and pray for that special person in our life, without whom we would not have been, what we are today; a day to prove that all her efforts, towards making us a complete person, have been worthwhile and make her feel proud for us. In the broader sense of the term, Mother's Day is a day to be grateful to God for being so kind as to bless us with an angel in the form of Mother.

Finally, having knowing mother’s love, forgiveness and sacrifice, I felt acute difficulty in bringing up my feelings on to the page. I would like to wrap up my succinct article with an adage “God could not be every where, and therefore he made mothers." - Jewish proverb. We fail to realize the value of a presious thing, when it is with us until it is taken away - Love your parents.

Thanks for reading
Srinivas

India knocked out from ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 - Whom to blame?

From the early days of Cricket to till 1990, it was played for the honour of the country with enourmous amount of zeal and sincerity. But now the gentleman's game has fallen so much that they are playing for the money!.

Cricket is no more a game these days; it has lost its fame as a game. It is very clearly evident from the recent dastard incident of murdering Pakistan cricket coach Bob woolmer. We all have to hang our heads in shame after hearing the fact that, Bob Woolmer, a Briton who was manually strangled to death in a high security Pegasus Hotel, Jamaica. It's a game marred by match-fixing scandals and under the hegemony of underworld dons.

On March 17, 2007 Cricket fans all over the India stunned after the staggered performance of the Indian team against Bangladesh in Port-of-Spain. Bangladesh even ruled out India's last hope of being defeated by debutants Bermuda and showing a clear sign of closing the World Cup doors for India. All credit goes to Bangladesh players they remain undaunted against the big names Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly and others. We all agree, winning and losing are the two faces of a coin but what went wrong against Bangladesh was choosing to bat first on a juicy pitch, low score on the board, low quality of bowling and fielding.

There has been always extreme pressure for India, Pakistan cricketers due to high expectations from the country’s cricket lovers. Indian team is forced to bear both internal and external pressure. Internal pressure on the field and external pressure by the denizens of the country.

Winning a game is a matter of 90% mental and rest the physical ability. After a devastating defeat to Bangladesh, Cricket lovers in India started burning effigies of players, vandalizing their homes, performing mock funerals and government stepped up to provide security to their family. All such blight incidents are directly linked to player's mental rhythm and will applecart their mental calibre and finally the same is proved. Citizens must accept this fact and stop behaving off-puttingly (Team needs practice not prayers).

Coming on to the player's side:
A sport was meant to be a relaxing for players and spectators but over the years it gradually turned to be a source of major income. At least for some players in national team means an income from advertisements.

Do’s:
1. BCCI must ban players from participating in advertisements or else fetch more than 70% tax from the huge figures.
2. Media should stop hyping and unravel the unnoticed players who are doing well in other sports.
3. Powder-puff senior players must declare their retirement giving more room for youngsters.
4. Try to look for all-rounders, we don’t want lower order batsman to return to pavilion meekly anymore.
5. Cut-down the high match fee paid to the players.
6. Strict legal action against the players engaged in match-fixing scandals and etc.
7. BCCI must ensure no politics during player’s selection.

Don’ts:
1. BCCI members and players should stay away from lampooning each other.
2. Stop experimenting the batting line-up.
3. Never under estimate the opponents.

There is no I in TEAM, Individual records pay no importance when you are failed to perform as a team. It doesn't matter how many world records we hold, no matter how strong is our batting line up at the end of the day, No excuse if you are defeated badly. World class players like Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, Zaheer khan, Yuvraj Singh and Kumble failed to perform when crunch time came and easily succumbed to pressure. Lot of prayers, blessings went vain and ruined the India’s dream to lift the World cup. That is where, the former west-Indian cricket player Sir Vivian Richards named as the best batsman of all-time, the greater the stage the greater was his performance.

As far as, Cricket coach is concerned, he comes as a gift for the teams who are just learning the critics of the game. I don’t think coach role would really matter a lot for the teams like India having Big names with more than 15 years of experience. Regarding the recent BCCI decision to replace Sachin with Dravid, Sachin can participate as a commentator not as a player in 2011 World Cup; Yuvraj Singh must lead the team.

Finally, World cup 2007 tamasha is over for India and it’s the time for all emotional lovers to switch off the idiot box and get back to work, saving man power and electricity. There will be a great sadness in the corner of our heart that, having crossed one billion population, we failed to produce 11 players winning team.

Let’s hope for the best and my best wishes for the Indian team ICC World Cup 2011.

Thanks for reading
Srinivas G