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| VillageVoice |
Posted
on 16-Oct-01 10:45 AM
Some great news from home.
First, it's cricket though. Coached by former Sri Lanker opener Roy Dias, Nepal's team humbled the highly rated UAE to enter the final. Thank you Kantipuroneline for the ball-by-ball :) coverage.
Manjushree Thapa's much awaited Tutor of History hits the stand.
Dr. Bekh B. Thapa, Nepal's Ambassador to India, says Bhutanese refugees are finally returning home - starting from the year-end. It'd better be true. Mr. Ambassador, your credibility, no less, is on the line.
And Maoists' long-held demand for the release of comrade Matrika Yadav has been fulfilled. Now it's time they reciprocated the government goodwill. In any case, the CPN(Maoists) have steadily lost its early high ground as social refomers, and self-styled messaihl. If anything, the decline has been rapid in the past few months.
They, as far as I am concerned, have little to lose by joining the mainstream politics.
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| Biswo |
Posted
on 16-Oct-01 11:11 AM
VVji:
News about cricket is surely great news. Did you see Nepali flag so proudly unfurled in the grounds ? Isn't it somekind of rarest moment? Sports surely are
unifying factors.
Goodluck to the boys for their final game.
[Though I am not a great Cricket fan. Specially after this corruption thing
surfaced.]
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| VillageVoice |
Posted
on 16-Oct-01 06:15 PM
dear biswoji:
The corruption scandal, if anything, will clean the game. You mean match-fixing, right?
I agree, it will be sometime before countries like Pakistan and India get their act goether. But I think the cricket bureaucracy all over the world is under enormous pressure from the paying public to clean up the mess.
If I am not mistaken, the India's BCCI is currently the world's richest cricket establishment.
Given the commercial rewards cricket generates in the subcontinent, the focus of world cricket will eventually shift to Asia. England and West Indies, the tigers of world cricket, are already in serious disarray as far commercial status of the game is concerned. And that will eventually reflect in the playing field.
If Australia are the most successful team in the world now, they also backed up by the most well-organized domestic cricket. I would say Pakistan's cricket bureacucracy is the most corrupt among the Test playing nations.
Imran once said (in essence), "Pakistan's cricketers must be terribly talented. We produce worldclass players despite having the most corrupt cricket system in the world." Now that speaks volumes about sheer individual grit.
I think the match-fixing expose' will eventually do a lot of good to the gentlemen's game. My two cents.
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| Biswo |
Posted
on 16-Oct-01 10:29 PM
Dear VVji:
>Dr. Bekh B. Thapa, Nepal's Ambassador to India, says Bhutanese refugees are
>finally returning home - starting from the year-end. It'd better be true. Mr.
>Ambassador, your credibility, no less, is on the line.
The charm of popular sports obscured more important news.
I think Bhutanese issue is no longer even in news, because of Maoists problem,
royal massacre and other "more glaring" issues.
As Oscar Wilde once said, "there is only one thing worse than being talked about,
that is not being talked about."
Bhutanese refugees surely realize this now. Even the news of their leader's homicide was a temporary news, and failed to raise public enthusiasm.Without
a nation to call their own, without a house to raise their children,and without
any tangible opportunity for their progeny, they are living a life filled with
hopelessness and eternal despondency.If Dr Thapa is true, then this is a great
news. But the news is ,certainly, too good to be true.
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| NK |
Posted
on 17-Oct-01 11:24 AM
How come nobody said anything about the assasination of their leader? Or is it just that I did not hear? Yes, indeed it is a great news if they are allowed to return to their home. Ironic isn't it? they need a permission to return to their own home.
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