Cricket World Cup Champion 2011 India and Love

After a gap of 28 years, India had won the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 by defeating Sri Lanka in Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai. This was one of the biggest achivement of India in the world's sports arena.
Whole nation erupts with joy after this triumph by Indian Team, the party goes all night. Thank God the match was on saturday, otherwise one more week-day would be gone in the celebration.

  According to one survey,  67.8 million people saw this match on TV, making it as a biggest sports event viewed in India. I was also one of the avid tv viewer whose adrenalin rose up and down with every breath taking moments. Apart from home, big screens were put in the markets and elite homes. There were parties in Bollywood Actor's homes to saw the match , they have invited their near and dear ones to saw the match. Even in ghettos and lower income group housing hundreds of individuals saw the final on small tv screens. Defence establishments were also part and parcel of this cricket frenziness. I was also invited for one of party to saw the match on a large screen with friends. I declined the offer  and saw the match with my family.
    
    In this whole episode, what I found that our young generation saw the match with their friends rather than their family. And growing trend was that pubs and bars were full with cricket enthusiast. There was a bumper sale of liquor and related food items. This is not a good sign, celebration with friend  is ok but this growing trend shows that love is somewhere lost in our family system. Some years back, we generally saw the match at home and celebrate them with our friends in our locality by distributing sweets and lighting fire-crackers. But, now the youth want to saw the match at pubs and bars and celebrate the win by driving the bikes and cars recklessly and dancing on the cars of the strangers and creating all type of nuisance in the public.

        
     This trend in the society is due to preference to materialist things rather than love and affection in the society. Yesterday, my father gave me an article to read from 'The Speaking Tree' suppliment of Times of India. The story was that three old men were sitting in front of the house and on asking them to to come inside, they told the owner that they were Wealth, Success and Love and they had to invite only one person. After much delibration, the owner asked Love to come inside, all three old men come inside and told them that if they invited Wealth or Success than other two will not accompany that person. And as the owner asked for Love to come, Wealth and Success had to accompany  Love.

    So, it is ok that Wealth and Success is important but it is more important that Love is not lost in the family and we celebrate more and more such events with great pomp and show.

JAI HIND.
   

       

Is Earth Hour enough against Climate Change.

When Earth Hour started in Sydney, Australia in 2007 nobody knew that in a year it had become a global sustainability movement with more than 50 million people across 35 countries participating.

Even in March 2009, 100s of millions people took part in this hourly phenomenon. With 88 countries and 4000 cities officially switching off light, made it the largest global initiative against Climate Change.
Now, today on 27 March, 2010 we are sure the numbers will be more.

Why we need Earth Hour?

But the question arises why we need Earth Hour. Is this one hour enough for fight against Climate Change.
What I think is, why we do not make it a habit to switch of unnecessary lights. Moreover, we can use CFL bulbs instead of simple light bulbs. Even Indian Government is supporting this scheme.

Furthermore, we have to teach youngsters and children to make it a habit of switching off electricity when not needed. Even we can use staircases instead of lifts. Using staircase is benefit for our health also.

Why only Earth Hour for Electricity?

Water Crisis is another problem that world is facing today. Saving water must also be the responsibility, perhaps the duty of each one of us to contribute towards water management. Intelligent utilisation of water resources is the need of the hour.

If we use water indiscriminately, the day will come when a campaign like Earth Hour will be needed which motivate individuals not to take bath on that particular day. So, why not pro-actively start today and save water. Even it is our duty to teach children about saving water.

Cost Cutting Campaign in Industries.

When I was in IT Sector, I saw a phenomenon, Cost Cutting Campaign, during recession. In that campaign, unnecessary lights were switched off and circulars were issued to save paper and less use of printers. Even a bizarre scene that tissue papers (in Rest-Rooms) were issued on rationing basis.

Again the question is, do we need these types of campaign? It must be our duty to save electricity and do not waste our resources whether they are at home or at our work place.


So, the need of the hour is judicious use of not only our natural but man-made resources. Than only our fight against Climate Change will be successful.