Stop Monkeying Around

2008-01-07T22:28:00.000-08:00

Sure Andrew Symmonds looks like a monkey!then again,bhajji looks a little like balu the bear right off Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book and Sachin Tendulkar nothing short of a Bandicoot from our worst nightmares;understandably and in all fairness because we originated from the animal species, more specifically the fish species as my research identifies!

So forgive that one poor bundle of fish born into his proud school who happened to be by some genetic imbalance and mutation, a specimen resembling a monkey!Dear (add worshipping deity/ spiritual powers initials here)!! now this poor creature would be doomed to a lifetime of insults everytime he tried to prove himself, thus squabbling with the great indian pomfret bhajji the medium off spinner!armies will build on either side to create a whole new means of warfare, piercing far deadlier to the human soul than nuclear weapons ever could but something that has lasted from time immemmorial-the war of words.

I agree entirely with Greg Baum, and his opinion in his column in The Age. We trivialise racism to a great extent, demeaning it from a war against injustice to all humans born equal and meant to live equal,to sticking up for one's country and national pride by indulging in such trivialities. surely there are many more things for us to worry about, to put up on worldwide television, news bulletins 24/7 for the last four days.

This post probably makes me anti-indian but im indian all the way, for all my 18 years i have been. The only difference between me and many of us indians who don't leave a sport to thrive in its own sporting spirit, is that i will not hide behind the protective cover of a leader like mahatma gandhi because the apartheid and racism he fought for has nothing to do with the shilpa shetty's and andrew symmonds of today, being indian id like to think it was far nobler a struggle, being indian id like to say we dont need to prove ourselves and we have our pride.

I have no timeline of statistics to say how many billions of times we have faced racism in this past year or decade or century, it ceases to matter because as a fan of not just cricket but of every indian sport i can count our laurels and victories, moral, human, monetary or titled!

And the best part is im not even a die hard cricket fan! but those opinions can be saved for another day! afterall,who knows in 2086 what will be but today its a cricket stadium, not yet a zoo!

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Stop Monkeying Around