“Antel” Inside!

Who is an intellectual?

According to our Bible Wikipedia, An intellectual is a person who uses intelligence, i.e. thought and reason and analytical thinking, either in a professional or a personal capacity.

The word ‘Intellectual’ can denote 2 types of persons:

· A person involved in, and with, abstract, erudite ideas and theories.

A person of notable cultural and artistic expertise whose knowledge grants him or her intellectual authority in public discourse.

Uff… ki beginning mama!!!! Trust me guys, this is my first and last venture to write “intellectual” stuff. Being from the class of “Uncultivated”, I am a person who has a “low browed taste” in culture and art. So, I embark on this endeavor to find out why am I a non intellectual? (Main aisa kyun hoon???? pobblem ta asole ki?)

So this thesis of mine goes out to my philistine and uninitiated friends!

All of the above was Wikipedia stuff (what else can a non –intellectual, without a writing prowess, do?) so, let’s list it down…….

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  I love Govinda and David Dhawan….. (khali fajlami!!!!)


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  I don’t understand Franz Kafka!


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  I don’t understand the intricacies of Hussain’s evocative paintings!


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  I don’t find K.K. Menon more glamorous than Shah Rukh Khan.


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  I don’t understand the clichés used by great filmmakers (does anyone remember the cobwebs from Guide!!!!)


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  I don’t understand why Gabbar Singh killed an ant and didn’t ogle at Helen after “Mehebooba Mehebooba”!(does that conclude Gabbar was gay…..because he keeps mouthing ”Kitne aadmi the?”)


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  I prefer the 22 yards over “Do Bigha Zameen”! (Howwzatt!)


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  I indulge in “Inferior forms of arts!” like punning and mimicry! (dara ektu orna ta thik kore ni……Asha kori bhule jasni ke bolechilo!)


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  I prefer Nandan because of the wrong reasons. (Tikit hebby sosta kaka!)


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  “Totallyyy”prefer Bappi da over GnR and Metallica. (“Chirodinee….”…..uff total emotional…..getting goojbumps paagla!)


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  I am not a Bob Dylan fan.(I still pronounce Dylan and not “Dyeee”lan though)


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  I can’t ask questions “with insights” stretching up to 45 secs to a minute…..


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  I prefer six-packs over AF-PAK!

And the list continues…….now I know why I can’t be clubbed as an intellectual….

But I really want to be one because the great thing about being an intellectual is that if you bore people they still think it's their fault!!!! Even I want to get passes for the film festivals! So, here begins my pursuit to become one……

Ahhhh forget it! I would rather stick to my over the top self and keep tickling you guys with my non-intellectual gibberish!

Lekin Jaane se pehle……….ek non intellectual entity ke total non-antel dil se nikla hua chand alfaaz………

Bhabcho pore ki sob jata, likheche kisob shit…..

Thik dhorecho amar matha e ache total chhit!

Sukumar Roy Bhogoban r Gurudev amar Mir…

Punning jodi lage bhalo, kha paagla kheer!

Cricket amar passion kaka, kobita amar hobby….

Comment koro noyle sala EK CHOBOL E CHOBI!!!!!!

“Better fit than Sorry!”

M.S. Dhoni’s words must have been ringing in the years of Younus Khan’s ears after the semis of the Champions trophy. Yet another, finger controversy engulfs cricket and this time it’s a broken one!

A broken finger not only ousted Pakistan from the tournament, it has already started pointing in the wrong direction as well.

“When I ran Gambhir out, people said what a patriot, now the same people will say I was up to something” …..Being as smart as usual, Younus Khan called it before hand. And as one has it now, the Chairman of the National Assembly standing committee on sports MNA Jamshed Dasti has been quoted that Pakistan tanked matches against Australia and New Zealand. Typical of Pakistan cricket…..

It definitely hurts and Younus Khan must have been more pained with the match fixing allegations rather than his broken finger. The pain was visible when he said he would not tolerate the slur of match-fixing and would resign from the captain's job if he felt so.

But a few questions will always tickle him;

Should he have been playing? Well….it was a brave call, but at times bravery could lead to misery.

And why did he try to catch the ball the Aussie way?

He should have remembered, Aussies and fingers always point to some new controversies!

Oh! Captain…..My Captain!
“Rain rain go away, MS Dhoni wants to play”… it must have been the nursery rhyme that the Indian Cricket team skipper would have been chanting, sitting in the dressing room while watching the thunderstorm against the Aussies at the Centurion.
The Indian Team was already in a spot of bother after losing their opening game versus Pakistan but the thunderstorm against the Aussies definitely delivered the killer blow!
India’s hopes relied on the shoulders on their “best friend” Pakistan who, as usual, failed us! But why do we have to rely on someone else??
Of course we need to….because we had the “best bowling” line up possible!
Ishant Sharma refused to get back into his groove, R.P. Singh and Harbhajan Singh lost form leaving Dhoni “two to three bowlers short” and the less we talk about our fielding the better….. It definitely shows a drop in the testosterone levels!
This is the second ICC tournament this year that we have crashed out ….. In the Twenty20 World Cup it was attributed to the batsmen's failure to face short-pitched stuff and now, the bowlers need to put up their hands. But somewhere in these fiascos, Dhoni's modest captaincy has escaped the post mortem. MSD, under whom India is yet to lose a Test match, now seriously needs to re-evaluate his leadership skills. Is Dhoni's flair for captaincy is now becoming a victim of pragmatism? His cool dude image seemed to have frozen his imagination as a captain as well! His approach to batting is simply unacceptable. Instead of being the flamboyant hitter, he now builds his innings way too timidly. The result, India has lost its most fearsome bomber!
The India skipper let Pakistan off the hook by bringing in his part-time bowlers rather than go for all out attack when Pakistan were on the ropes .The result, Shoaib Malik and Mohammad Yousuf soon found their bearings and posted a mammoth stand to pile up the big score. Even against the Aussies the field settings and the bowling changes were way too timid!
Though we won against the Windies, let’s face it with just two good fielders in Raina and Kohli, two dependable batsmen in Tendulkar and Gambhir; just one medium pacer worth his salt Ashish Nehra, India couldn’t have gone the distance. We, unfortunately, did not play to our potential and hence….
But has “captain-cool” lost his Midas touch? Does his captaincy needs a makeover? Does he need to revamp his approach to batting?
I know he and his men in blue have done brilliantly well (six consecutive ODI series wins) throughout the last two years and we had a lot of injury woes but my captain….
It’s not about the defeats; its how one loses.