Miandad’s sixer and Harjah for India…

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From the beginning of ODIs to before Pakistani cricketer Javed Miandad hit the winning sixer off the last ball of the final of the 1986 Sharjah tournament; we led Pakistan 8-7 in terms of wins-losses.

From the Miandad sixer to Sharjah 1991, Pakistan led India a whopping 17-3.

We boycotted Sharjah in 1992 and our performance improved slightly, but we came back to Sharjah in 1994 and played till 2000.

During that period Pakistan led us 44-21.

Then we boycotted Sharjah for good after 2000.

Since then we lead Pakistan 22-21.

It was also after the first boycott that we beat Pakistan in the World Cup and since then we’ve beaten them in 6/6 World Cups.

If the BCCI ever thinks of holding neutral Indo-Pak matches at Sharjah, then the Harjah days are sure to return.

World Cup musings…

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Total prize money up for grabs for 200+ players participating in 2015 ODI World Cup…
$10 million.
Yuvraj Singh’s fee for just appearing in IPL 2015…
$2.5 million.

The World Cup jinx…
Sri Lanka has never beaten Pakistan.
Pakistan has never beaten India.
India has never beaten South Africa.
South Africa has never beaten anyone in a knockout match.

A Tale of Three Summers…
Team India went from an Indian Summer to an Australian Summer and will return to an Indian Summer again.
Instead of a long rest, they’ll rush into a 1.5 month long IPL.

1992—India has beaten you in a World Cup. Will you give it back to them?
Pakistan—‪#‎WeWontGiveItBack‬—1996, 1999, 2003, 2011, 2015.

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The curious case of the Communist Manifesto from 1848 right through 2015…

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the-capital-683904_6401848…
Karl Marx: Comrades! I present to you the Communist Manifesto!
World: Wheeeeeeee!!!! We are saved!
2015: LOL! What a joke!

1917…
Vladimir Lenin: Comrades! I present to you the Communist Manifesto!
Russia: Wheeeeeeee!!!! We are saved!
1991: USSR totally collapses and is struggling well into 2015.

1947…
Jawaharlal Nehru: Comrades! I present to you the Communist Manifesto!
India: Wheeeeeeee!!!! We are saved!
1991: India goes bankrupt and RBI airlifts 47 tons of gold to Bank of England and an additional 20 tons of gold to Union Bank of Switzerland (just to raise $600 million). PV Narasimha Rao’s bold reforms save the day.

1949…
Mao Zedong: Comrades! I present to you the Communist Manifesto!
China: Wheeeeeeee!!!! We are saved!
1978: Deng Xiaoping junks the Communist Manifesto to embrace Capitalism and saves the day to turn China into a powerhouse. The common people continue to live under political Communist dictatorship though.

1977…
Jyoti Basu: Comrades! I present to you the Communist Manifesto!
West Bengal: Wheeeeeeee!!!! We are saved!
2011: People totally frustrated as the State turns into Waste Bengal.

2009…
Sonia Gandhi: Comrades! I present to you the Communist Manifesto!
India: Wheeeeeeee!!!! We are saved!
2014: Congress routed in the 2014 polls and gets an abysmal 44 Lok Sabha seats getting less than 100 seats for the first time ever. In the 2015 New Delhi polls it gets 0 seats to head towards extinction.

2011…
Mamata Banerjee: Comrades! I present to you the Communist Manifesto!
West Bengal: Wheeeeeeee!!!! We are saved!
2015: Waste Bengal turns into Waster Bengal as the people don’t know what to do next.

2015…
Arvind Kejriwal: Comrades! I present to you the Communist Manifesto!
New Delhi: Wheeeeeeee!!!! We are saved!
<Watch this space!!!>

Communist Manifesto.
New Communist Manifesto.
New Revised Communist Manifesto.
Yet More Newly Revised Communist Manifesto.
Actually forget it…
Just take Ye Ancient Communist Manifesto and pretend that it is new!

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Mukhya Mantri Kejriwal musings…

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2014…
Kaunsa film laga hai?
A—Dharna Zaroori Hai.
2015…
Kaunsa film?
A—Sequel. Dharna Mana Hai.
Par koi bolta asli naam—Dharna Zaroori Hai 2.
‪#‎DelhiTalkies‬

Same man with same ideology but…
2011: Great hope! What a challenger!
2012: Who is he? Media creation!
2013: Great hope! Modi challenger!
2014: Who is he? Media creation!
2015: Great hope! Modi challenger!
2016: ???

Wheel of fortune…
2014: BJP gets greatest Lok Sabha mandate since 1984.
AAP: 4 seats.
2015: AAP gets one of the greatest Assembly mandates since 1947.
BJP: 3 seats.

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When Kejriwal won Delhi by a landslide…

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Delhi voter 1: Modi is dictator of India. We have to do something.
Delhi voter 2: What?
Delhi voter 1: Make Kejri dictator of New Delhi!
Delhi voter 2: Great idea!

1990s BJP Delhi CM…
Khurana, err Verma, err Sushma…
1998 Delhi voter: Forget it!
2010s BJP Delhi CM…
Goel, err Harsh Vardhan, err Mukhi, err Upadhyaya, err Bedi…
2015 Delhi voter: Forget it!

One explanation…
Anti-incumbency votes of Sheila government
+Pro-incumbency votes of 49-day government
+Anti-incumbency votes of Modi government
= 67/70 seats!

In 2013, BJP beat AAP 32-28.
In 2015, AAP thrashed BJP 67-3.
Both parties have exactly the same core ideologies.
Voters’ attitudes have changed.

If the entire Delhi BJP MLAs can fit on a cycle, then the entire Congress MLAs can fit on an electron of an atom.

2014: Kejriwal is CM for 49 days.
2015: Bedi is CM candidate for 25 days.

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More #PaanchSaalKejriwal musings…

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AAP after May 16…
Chaar bach gaye lekin party fir bhi baaki hai.
Delhi BJP Unit after February 10…
Woh gaana gaane ka huq bhi hum se chheen liya gaya hai!

Before: The AAP should merge into the Congress.
Now: The Congress should merge into AAP.

Dharnawaale: 67/70.
(Get ready for August Kranti 2015)
Ex-IPS led party: 3/70.
(Delhiites finally take their revenge over Delhi Police)
Sheila’s 15-year-legacy: 0/70.
(Pappu who?)

BJP 1998-2020…
Delhi door hai!

Now New Delhi will demand total Independence and freedom from Modi. AAPistan Zindabad!

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