8 billionth baby to be Digvijay Singh??

In an desperate bid to control population growth, Congress General Secretary  Digvijay Singh has announced that he will be born as the 8 billionth baby in the world. According to some unreliable estimates, world population, which hit the 7.2 billion mark today, could touch the 8 billion mark around the year 2022 i.e. within 10 years from now.

 Experts believe that future generations will try to avoid having another Digvijay Singh among them, thus bringing down the population growth rate in the process.

While rebirth usually happens once the person is dead, Digvijay Singh has made a mockery of this commonly accepted Hindu theory and vowed that he will be there to supervise his own reincarnation.

“Organizations like RSS have spread such rumours,” Digvijay Singh asserted, “There have been instances when the same soul has entered two people. And this time i am aware of those instances"

Diggi Raja as he his fondly called refused to pin point the place in India where he will be born, but he has said with a strong sense of conviction that the 8 billionth baby would definitely be born in India and his soul will enter that baby.

“The baby could be a boy or a girl,” Digvijay Singh detailed out his second coming. A journalist was kicked out of the press conference when he asked if there were other genders or forms too that Digvijay Singh could take shape in his next innings.

Diggi Raja said that he will be there to watch himself grow up and train the 8 billionth baby to be a carbon copy of himself. The news has attracted mixed reactions, with most of the experts welcoming the development. The nation as a whole was shell shocked with this revelation from Mr Digvijay Singh. A national holiday would also be declared according to some extremely unreliable sources.

“We wish a long life to Shri Digvijay Singh ji,” a United Nations official said, “And we are happy that he has announced that he will be born again as the 8 billionth baby in this world, which means we will have two Digvijay Singhs in this world.”

“I hope people realize the threat now,” the UN official added.

UN has expressed hope that the announcement by Digvijay Singh will push Indians and others around the world to take concrete step to check population growth. 

Digvijay Singh was unavailable for his insightful comments.

Note : This is just a work of fiction and it has no resemblance with the reality. It is written out of wit and humour..:D

Reason, Season or Lifetime

It has happened to all of us at one point of time or the other. Friends have been unresponsive or failed to come through, for no apparent reason. Sometimes it happens when you need them the most.Yet they choose to be silent.

It happened to me after my failure in a professional exam. I was hurting and needed to talk. A person whom I considered a good friend suddenly stopped communicating. After my demise with a negative result, and after I sent him a message informing him of the same, he suddenly stopped replying to my messages, would always appear offline and never bothered to even reply back. There is complete indifference or it is feigned. I wonder why people do that. Is it because they do not know what to say? Or is it because of things going on in their own lives?

Whatever it is, I find it difficult to accept such behaviour. May be it is because I would personally never do it. and I judge everybody by the same high standards that I have set. May be these are what they call the “fair weather friends” --the ones who laugh with you when things are okay but choose to turn away the moment you have something sad. The good thing is that one knows who one’s true friends are. and one feels doubly grateful to have such true friends.The bad thing is that it makes you feel like such a fool to have judged people so wrongly. One finds it hard to accept that one was so naïve.The worst thing is that it still hurts.

Found this piece which I felt was a beautiful one. Will do us good to remember it and remind ourselves that it is not our fault when friends walk away.

Reason, Season, or Lifetime-

What are you??? Are you a Reason a Season or a Lifetime? Pay attention to what you read. After you read this, you will know the reason it was sent to you! People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. When you figure out which one it is, you will know what to do for each person.When someone is in your life for a REASON. . . It is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally, or spiritually. They may seem like a god send, and they are! They are there for the reason you need them to be. Then, without any wrongdoing on your part, or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end. Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away. Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand. What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled, their work is done. The prayer you sent up has been answered. And now it is time to move on.Then people come into your life for a SEASON. Because your turn has come to share, grow, or learn. They bring you an experience of peace, or make you laugh. They may teach you something you have never done. They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy. Believe it! It is real! But, only for a season.LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons; things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation. Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person, and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life. It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.

THANK YOU for being a part of my life.

Work like you don't need the money

Love like you've never been hurt,

and dance like no one is watching.

Should Sachin Tendulkar be conferred a Rajya Sabha nomination or Bharat Ratna?

Not long ago, Sachin Tendulkar a name which binds 1.2 billion people together in our country was conferred with a nomination in upper house of the Parliament and the question which has been raised is - whether inducting the cricketing great into Rajya Sabha is a prudent decision or not? While people may argue that Tendulkar deserves everything that he is bestowed upon but his nomination into Parliament has raised a few eyebrows. The common consensus among the people is that Politics or Parliament is not the place for a sports’ bigwig where the issues regarding the development of country are placed above the decisions relating to caught behind or run outs. Now, as a matter of fact the million dollar question is - should the master be awarded Bharat Ratna – The highest award for any civilian in the country or a seat in the Parliament?

Sachin Tendulkar, a champion batsman with numbers that are hard or possibly impossible to emulate has been a great ambassador of Indian cricket for the last two decades. The credentials, the feats of this man particularly the ton of tons was just an imagination before he pulled it off. The records and feats will be cherished by the cricketing fraternity for the unforeseeable future.  But outside the cricket stadium Tendulkar has been a true role model conducting himself with dignity and humility. He has been an inspiration to hundreds of thousands in our country. These credentials and the respect that he derives are already enough for Bharat Ratna but a seat in the political stadium has been a bone of contention. A parliament is a place where decisions, deliberations and debates regarding policies of national interests and various legislative bills are held for which one has to be well acquainted with all socio-economic aspects, the political situation in the country because of which Tendulkar just doesn’t fit into the scheme of things.  The duties that are supposed to be discharged by Tendulkar may require sound decision and policy making ability which would be a tricky task for the little master than smashing a six off Brett Lee.

Looking deeper into this nomination it won’t be a bad idea to induct the sportsmen into policy making and administrative roles that would help to run sports ministry or any other sports managing body more efficiently. This would help for the welfare and overall holistic development of the sporting community. The young and aspiring sportsmen would be benefitted from this sort of a policy. The huge talent pool of players not just from cricket but from other sports would not be wasted which is the case right now. May be Tendulkar can drive a change, but then again Sachin Tendulkar has not been popular as a leader.

Tendulkar, without a shadow of a doubt deserves Bharat Ratna for he has achieved everything that a civilian could achieve in the field of cricket but does he merits a seat as an MP needs to be recapitulated since MPs from diverse backgrounds such as sports and cinema have seldom done anything substantial to the decision making and development. The move could be a political gimmick of the government to just politicize the game which already has many politicians as the chairmen of various state run cricket associations.

At the end of the day, its Tendulkar’s call whether to duck this political bouncer and continue being the face of World Cricket or to start a new innings on an all together different pitch.