The third cricket test between india and pak started off in karachi an hour back and the indian seamers have sent paks packing literally. They have skittled the top order and reduced pak for a palty 44 /6. Pathan got a hatrick in the first over, only the second time in history.

The budget is round the corner and our arrogant fm is already talking about budget bias for the rural sector. When did the business and industrial sector got any bias, they have borne all sorts of discrimination, brutal taxes, evil laws, byzantine rules and have been harassed, harried and persecuted by 2 bit burueaucrats. Added to the already suffocating and strangulating maze of eveil and immoral laws of this country was the addition of an abominable evil called t the fringe benefit tax concoted by mendacious and flagitious and deranged minds. And now our compassionate comrades wants to tax diesel supplied to private cars, tax 5 star hotels and a list or what they call elite consumption. Its a shame that we still have communist parties and they have the brazen effrontery to talk with sickening self righteousness. Its time we banned this evil called communism.

We all do a bit of introspection one fine day. The other day I was doing just that and was wondering about many things. One thing that crossed was why is that we do not do things as we would like to do or even could do. Where do they go wrong. Its not exactly rocket science to decipher. We all develop a sort of a comfort zone and for most part of the time unwilling to venture out of this. if anything is suggested or required of us and if we percive that it means disturbing the comfort zone, immediately our negative antennas are out and we sort of build walls and try to deflect those things. A frog in the pond might not be that inappropriate. We dont want the excitement of the unexepected, we dont want the taste of the unknown, we dont want to sail in unchartered waters and no ruffling of our comfort feathers. How do we go about tackling this? Its pretty easy to throw words like passion, commitment and similar things but how exactly one goes about aquiring these qualities and then put into practice? Right now its a tough call and there are a hundred books in the market which dwells on this subject but the answers remain elusive. Probably all it needs is a spark to kindle the fire in you. Pray the new year does for all of use and we shall move out of the realm of ordinary to the extraordinary.