Congrats Saina Nehwal

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If you are thinking who this person is and why am congratulating her. Well thats exactly what am trying to convey then, cricket is not the only sport in India there are other sports also.
Saina Nehwal is 16 yr old from Hydrebad, India who has won the women's Badminton Phillipines Open yesterday and the first Indian to do so. She is young and in her prime. I hope the Indian media do not spoil her by making her endorse advertisements and stuff.
She needs to be promoted and media needs to help but not by making her appear in stupid ad's.
Its actually pathetic to note that
1) No blogger has blogged about her (results from Google search tell that)
2) The media just reports her winning the tournament

If for example Sachin Tendulkar hits a century almost the entire sports section in the print media is covered with his photos and people reviewing about it. Same goes with the TV media also. But this young girl has achieved for India what others have failed to do and there is no interview of her's featured.

If we dont encourage people like her how will there be somebody in this hugely populated India taking to other sports except cricket.

1) Dhoni endorsed lot of products, his job is done. In the current West Indies tour he has not performed. Dont tell me lack of form, how can that happen suddenly.
2) Whats with Hydrebad that produces talent youngsters
3) Dont bring her down like Sania Mirza

Congrats once again and hope you wont get carried away by the media attention if at all given. Its also nice to know that Mittal group is taken up responsibility to sponsor you.

Quote of the Day

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

  - William James

Narayanamoorthy on Quota

To appease the Indian youth protesting against the increased reservations for the backward classes in premier institutes, the Government proposed a quick solution - increase the number of seats in IITs and IIMs.

But the Chairman of the governing body for IIM Ahmedabad, Narayana Murthy, is not happy.

"People sitting in New Delhi cannot take these desicisons. A lot of variables need to be taken into account like the number of classrooms and hostel rooms. It is up to the chairman and the directors of the IITs and IIMs to take a desicison," says he.

He also pointed out the difficulty faced by these premier institutes in attracting good faculty members.

Murthy also criticised the Government for keeping the salary levels low and under strict control.

"It is unfortunate that these desicisons do no lie with the institutes but with the Government. We are not going about this in the right way. Our insitutes will never be the world class institutes if this continues," says he.

Narayana Murthy's comments are the latest in a series of battles the IIMs have fought with the Government. It now remains to seen who wins this round.

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TamilNadu Election

Casted my vote today. Long queue. There was a person before me who wants to nullify his vote. The polling officers was confused what to do. There was a discussion and then they gave him form. I strongly feel the intention should be kept secret. All the public and the booth agents have understood that he don't want to vote for anybody. Is this good?????

Election commission has to think about this next time.

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