Saturday, August 02, 2014

Winning is the best answer to abuse.

One of the frequent abuses hurled at the BJP by propaganda channels, such as the BBC, and repeated by parroting-western-drivel-as-absolute-truth ' intellectuals ' in India, is that it is a Hindu nationalist party. Which then means that being a Hindu is a somehow improper, but not being a Christian or a Muslim, and being a patriotic Indian is a crime but jingoistic celebration of killing millions of Germans in World War I or vaporising millions of innocent Japanese with cheerfully named nuclear weapons, called Fatman and Little Boy, is wonderful. It is not surprising that a ' very knowledgeable ' Australian judge found James Andersen not guilty of abusing Ravindra Jadeja, because the video of the incident had gone missing. This is not the first time Indian players have been assaulted by barbarians and the video has conveniently gone missing. Like hyenas, white people, especially Anglo Saxons hunt in packs and you have to face them with effective weapons. Among the 10 test cricket playing nation Board of Cricket Control in India earns the highest amount of money. It must make a full copy of every minute of the official telecast of every test match that India plays abroad and also have its own cameras on every ground. Making private video recording does not cost much. But we must remember that a video is only a picture and it cannot record sounds so abuse cannot be recorded. That is why Harbhajan Singh's suspension, for his abuse of Andrew Symonds, was overturned on appeal. Truth is, that Harbhajan was guilty of terrible abuse but he was exonerated because of cultural differences. Harbhajan maintains that he said," Teri Ma ki " which implied sex with Symond's mother. That would be a terrible abuse, not just in India, but all over South Asia and invite instant physical retribution. In Australia it was not considered terrible at all, presumably because Australians are used to seeing their mothers with various boyfriends, so one more hardly makes a difference. Symonds heard it as " Monkey " which to Australians is a racial abuse but not so bad to Indians because the revered Hanuman was a langur. So, Andersen got off because of the precedent set by Harbhajan. The Indian team should not have complained anyway. It took their minds off the test match at Southampton and they were hammered. That is the real insult. The best answer is to win the next match and then give  mouthful to Andersen. Cricket is perhaps the only sport where constant abuse, popularised as ' sledging ' by Australians, is tolerated. Perhaps it is time umpires are allowed to show yellow and red cards, as in soccer, for bad behavior.

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