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Spirituality, Sanctity and Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar

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In the Animal kingdom, the male lion is considered the ultimate ruler of the land. A typical lion pride consists of two males and a dozen females. Yet, when the all-powerful males are challenged by young nomadic males, the erstwhile rulers of the land are forced to abandon their territory and are injured and cursed to a slow death. It is no doubt cruel, but that is how nature is meant to work. Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar has always been challenged. For the last twenty years, he has been challenged by the stalwarts and the gullible alike. They tried to dethrone him time and again, but lost and then simply moved. From the time civilization flourished, there have been stories of awe and inspiration where mankind has defied the limits defined by the Almighty and embarked upon a journey to achieve a place amongst the Gods. The Gods of course, don’t want a mortal to share their same cult status. But when a man revolts, awakens, inspires a nation of a billion, the power of love in a billion hea...

A New Blogger In The New Year

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New Year's here, finally we kicked 2008 out of our lives. Err..actually it kicked itself out (??) Hold on now, we have a BREAKING NEWS..Another gaint step for mankind!! We required forty years after 1969 to take the second step?? :O Scroll down to enter the new world. Yes, and finally I have a blog of my own. Hope this one is indeed final, I have created and crapped away three such attempts in the past few years!!! It has been an ordeal in itself. Spent Six hours arriving at this idiotic blog name from a self created list of twenty odd ones. Thanks to a few friends of mine, onebyteofme.blogspot was vetoed out, albeit against my wishes, and this it how it ended - Harryfication, 'Inspired' by Californication!! A Harryfied flash back of 2008 awaits you below: OneByteOfMe: Got the all important desired posting location. Pune seemed a decent enough place to spend one year of your life. Having done that, is it worth anything more? Probably not, but hey, my boss says he won't ...