Sachin makes India Happy

Sachin scored an amazing first double century in ODI cricket. What a remarkable innings.
No one has achieved this and I think it was an apt moment for Sachin, who has probably all the records in ODI cricket to score a double for the first time and set a target for others to follow.
After Sayed Anwar's amazing feat 13 years ago, not many would have thought that it could be a 200 some day and it would not have been expected from Sachin. But here he is, immortal as they say, standing at the very top of everything in cricket.
If anyone thought that one person can make people of this country happy, it has to be Sachin...
If anyone thought any one person can get people to celebrate together in this vast and diverse country, it has to be Sachin.
Even the Railway budget by Mamata Banarjee had to take a back seat as all the papers had only Sachin on the headlines...
Wow... Still have to see the innings, but the thought of him having scored the double century has got me so so excited that am waiting for the highlights shows...

Jewellery shopping is tough

I found this out recently while shopping for a simple thing as a gold ring...
But with great company, you can have great fun tooo...

Thoughts on Wildlife conservation

It is that time of the year again when there is a lot of talk on tiger numbers as the yearly census has just started...There has been a lot of campaigns by film stars and famous personalities asking us to think and do our bit to save our tigers...
But the big question is it really working??? We might again see that the tiger numbers have gone down from the 1411 figure that was estimated last year and there will be a lot of news channels making news and also making profits out of their special shows,etc..., but clearly after having such shows and campaigns every year, there is nothing happening to indicate that the tiger numbers are improving, is it???
Clearly there is something wrong... We need reforms in this country, reforms in the Wildlife prtection laws and reforms that will punish the people who commit wildlife crime severly and fast...
I think it is only when these reforms are in place and the action against criminals is taken at a very fast pace, will we one day save the tiger and every other wild animal in our country...
It is a real shame that the leaders of this country can debate hard and fight over all the unnecessary topics but ignore the basic stuff about nature and wildlife...
I mean really, for the people at the helm making decesions need to understand the importance of nature and wildlife conservation they need to go back in time and recollect a bit of lessons on history and a bit on how important a role the tiger which is at the top of the food chain is to the survival and balance of the other animals and wildlife. I am sure all the educated people and politicians would have learnt this at school, then how can you forget that lesson... History or even if they recollect thier childhood times, they would realize the difference when we used to talk of 40000-60000 tigers in the wild around the 1940s to 1411 tigers last year.
The difference in numbers in huge for even a kid to understand that we are not taking action and there needs to be something done fast.
I think all the campaigns and the famous personalities campaigning for saving the tiger are doing some amazing work to show the grave situation we are in right now. I only hope that some of the people leading this country are also watching a bit of TV and they have a look at these campaigns being done and more important is for them to have a look at that '1411' number that is being shown in huge font.
If that number does not awaken them into action, I feel sad, that my kids will not see any Tiger in the wild and will keep cursing us for not doing anything in our time...