Chitra’s view on gain from Indian Cricket & The new Religion

Chitra , my sister, who would be joining ISB this year, had a rather interesting view of India’s World Cup moment of truth, or what Indians have won because of their cricketing team’s loss.

“ I take this opportunity to share with you what really happened leading to India’s exit from the Cricket worldcup. This is not a joke but reality uncovered.

India’s economic growth has become the envy of the world as the Indian economy is really doing well but the growth rates have slackened in last quarter.

We are lucky that two Sardar’s are in charge of making sure that We do not veer of track. Who else but our Prime Minister and Head of Planning Commission. Anyway the Fin Min had to do a budget as the PM wanted it to be. Please note that both of them are particularly keen followers of our religion namely “Cricket”

What got the two Sardars really worried is the following scenario

The worry was if half the nation is sleepy half the time for 28days, which is more than 5% of the year, it would have affected our growth and hence to ensure that India’s economic march does not falter a calculated decision to get Indian team eliminated before the world cup super Eight stage of was taken. They reasoned that breaking the hearts of Indian cricket fans was better than risking India ’s economic growth. And the rest you know is not so nice history, as the cricket in Indian fans mind is about to become a historic fact.

One of the surveys done mentions that India being eliminated before super Eights has saved 371 million man hours which will result in to productivity worth more than 8 billion rupees which is 400% more than loss of 1.7 billion rupees suffered by various TV channels. In addition electricity worth 324,000 kilo watts was saved.

Finally when the Nations history is written our current team will be heralded as ultimate heroes who helped Indians growth as a economic super power. These eleven individuals risked their lives and safety of their families for the economic glory of country.

I salute the Indian team for their bravery. I hope this bravery will not go unacknowledged for long. Forward this story of real heroes to as many as possible.

And also note – Sardar’s can be brilliant too.“

And what do I think: A new religion dawns, it requires style, one ball and ample talent. The game is called FOOTBALL.  There’s a fair  crowd which plays this game from Beaches in Chennai to various Grounds. This friend of mine, Indra and I are planning to make a short (120 second) movie promoting this sport. In fact I’ve heard there are quite a few who are interested in playing Football at nights. Specially when the air is a lot cooler. Those interested, do let me know. I can arrange a 7 vs 7 night game.

FlashLite – My new platform of work and its future

After my rendezvous with Flash 8, AS 2, I’ve decided to move on to Hand held platform.  These platforms range from Portable Media players to Mobile devices to DS / PSP.

Why go hand held? It offers a unique personal user experience, which offers enough privacy and can actually connect to the user.

Where would this take me?  Technically speaking: FlashLite, Flex and J2me would what I would be acquainting with. Conceptually, I would get into Content creation for Mobile phones in verticals of gaming, applications & mobics (mobile comics).

Should upload couple of menus made for SE phones, and generic wallpapers sometime soon. Anyone interested in a collaboration, do let me know.