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When did Sharda Ugra the "respected" cricket journalist go rogue against BCCI ?


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 She was always an idiot who thought by always offering  contrarian views she becomes elite sports journalist.

 

How is it BCCI's ego, there are miserable creatures like her, her idiotic take on CT 2025 is enough to know she should be living in Lahore with her lahori logic.

 

ICC is BCCI's Dubai office what a miserable idiot.

 

 

I have no problem in condemning BJP/ Modi or BCCI but it should be done with some logic.You should always have  voices pointing flaws in govt that is part of being good democracy.

 

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Posted
14 hours ago, Gollum said:

Ramachandra Guha finds no fault in what PCB and BCB have done this WC, lays all the blame on India/BJP/BCCI. Has even gone against Bhogle.   

 

This chap was part of COA less than a decade back (Lodha reforms), and that gang of 4 along with Snake Manohar took Indian cricket a few years back. Imagine giving such snakes power where they can sabotage India and promote Pak's interests. 

tells you the length and depth commies have reached in all strata of society that sc judges too cannot think beyond them

Posted
3 hours ago, Vk1 said:

tells you the length and depth commies have reached in all strata of society that sc judges too cannot think beyond them

These aren't commies. More like champagne socialists. 

Posted (edited)
3 hours ago, Vk1 said:

tells you the length and depth commies have reached in all strata of society that sc judges too cannot think beyond them

Milords are bhaands, they have done more damage to Indian cricket than ECB, CA, PCB combined. 

 

Whether it be via CoA or ban on fantasy sports last year. 

 

There a billion cases pending, poor people get their tareekh after many decades, undertrials continue to rot in jail their entire youth. But these batmen want limelight by poking their noses in cricket, films, anything with glamour/entertainment quotient. 

 

Judiciary has been the biggest roadblock in India's progress, not executive/legislature. They have a God complex, also a nepotism culture that will put Indian politics to shame, select few families have been wielding that power since independence and they rarely work despite the truckloads of pending cases, also won't allow judicial reform. 

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Guys, let us be classy. Even if she is lesbian or whatever, who cares? Oppose her for her views/hypocrisy, not her orientation. Apart from being morally wrong, that also trivializes the discussion. Argue the point, not the person, else you have lost the debate. 

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Posted
22 hours ago, Gollum said:

There is not a single good sports/cricket writer in this country. Kahaan ka 'respected'? 

 

Gideon Haigh, CMJ, Peter Oborne etc. all had/have their prejudices, but dhang ka likhte toh hain !!!!! 

 

Here we have clueless people masquerading as journalists. Whether it be these insufferable pricks or a Boria Majumdar.

 

Cricinfo mein bhi our authors lack the quality other countries' representatives have...forget Gardner or McGlashan, our Sambit Bals and Mongas don't have the quality of Andrew Fidel Fernando or Osman Samiuddin. And I consider cricinfo mid. 

 

Same state in all sports/games. Compare Sagar Shah of Chessbase India with Levitov and his Russian Chess Channel. Vishy Anand recently co-wrote his semi-autobiography with a hack called Susan Ninan, if you read that lady's pieces on ESPN, ulti ayega...every second line of hers is a factual error and she doesn't know anything aout any sport. Meanwhile Kasparov co-writes with Mig Greengard, Plisetsky, some of his chapters even with Demis Hassabis (DeepMind fame, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry). Severe shortage of talent in India, or at least the talented folks aren't given opportunities. So we have to endure absolute mediocrity. 

Peter roebuck was one dammned good writer. The dude used to write such sharp pieces. Sad that he self-deleted out of depression. 

 

And yes, Osman samiuddin is quite good too.

 

"Severe shortage of talent in India, or at least the talented folks aren't given opportunities"

 

Agree completely.

Posted
1 minute ago, kepler37b said:

Peter roebuck was one dammned good writer. The dude used to write such sharp pieces. Sad that he self-deleted out of depression. 

 

And yes, Osman samiuddin is quite good too.

 

"Severe shortage of talent in India, or at least the talented folks aren't given opportunities"

 

Agree completely.

Yeah, Roebuck was a great writer, Enjoyed his pieces in 2007-08 BGT, used to consume all his articles on Cricinfo and Sydney Morning Herald. 

 

Cricinfo had many good writers back then. Now Indians dominate their space and have brought down the quality. 

Posted
13 minutes ago, Gollum said:

Yeah, Roebuck was a great writer, Enjoyed his pieces in 2007-08 BGT, used to consume all his articles on Cricinfo and Sydney Morning Herald. 

 

Cricinfo had many good writers back then. Now Indians dominate their space and have brought down the quality. 

The book reading culture is quite low in India. Except mallus and bong's I do not see it anywhere. Hence we do not have good quality writers as the demand does not exist.

 

We do have abominations like Chetan Bhagat. But reading a page in their book's lowers my IQ by 1 point.

Posted
3 minutes ago, kepler37b said:

The book reading culture is quite low in India. Except mallus and bong's I do not see it anywhere. Hence we do not have good quality writers as the demand does not exist.

It exists in isolated pockets of every state... active reading is not promoted by parents in many households due to various constraints. Parents themselves are immersed in mobile most of the time setting bad examples to their children

Posted
22 minutes ago, kepler37b said:

The book reading culture is quite low in India. Except mallus and bong's I do not see it anywhere. Hence we do not have good quality writers as the demand does not exist.

 

We do have abominations like Chetan Bhagat. But reading a page in their book's lowers my IQ by 1 point.

I would recommend everyone to read non-fiction books, if time is a constraint try it at least for a few minutes every night before sleep. Builds personality. I wish I had started doing it at a younger age. 

Posted
27 minutes ago, diga said:

It exists in isolated pockets of every state... active reading is not promoted by parents in many households due to various constraints. Parents themselves are immersed in mobile most of the time setting bad examples to their children

Indian hobbies and family night outs means movies, clubbing, dining out, temple visits, (watching) sports. Latest generation is busy all the time scrolling phones. 

 

For goras, it is reading books, playing sports, hiking, biking, painting, learning some musical instrument or dance form, volunteering, and useful activities like carpentry, gardening.

 

No wonder our people in general lack personality. 

Posted
2 hours ago, Gollum said:

I would recommend everyone to read non-fiction books, if time is a constraint try it at least for a few minutes every night before sleep. Builds personality. I wish I had started doing it at a younger age. 

Modiji must bring in Jio Bhagaao yojana. For one day in week, the entire country is blocked out of internet. Let the GDP get impacted. But it will break the cycle of scrolling addiction out of our youngsters.

Posted (edited)
2 hours ago, Gollum said:

I would recommend everyone to read non-fiction books, if time is a constraint try it at least for a few minutes every night before sleep. Builds personality. I wish I had started doing it at a younger age. 

There are writers that fuse travel writing with history. I would recommend works of john man saar. He wrote books on Attilla, Genghis khan. They are too good for a history buff like me.

 

https://www.johnmanauthor.com/

 

 

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Posted
9 hours ago, kepler37b said:

@Chaos..hope your GF is not like this :finger:.

Long hair n communist :facepalm:. Mexican n italian too:facepalm:

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