Procrastination

New year resolutions have not kicked in yet, this is why! We have much less concern about our future selves than our present selves — and are willing to sell our future selves down the river for the sake of present ease. But when the present marches into the future, and we are confronted with the work that our past selves refused to do, we pay the price in unmet deadlines, all-nighters and general torment. How true?

Happy New Year 2015

Happy New Year to you and all those you hold dear and we wish you true happiness, joy and success in the months to come. Cheers!

Dhoni - "the detached" lets it go

Borrowing from Harsha Bhogle's article in Indian Express....

Dhoni, while he has finished with Test cricket, he continues with the format he has been far better at. But he has walked away with no fuss at all. Remember the long-haired new captain who had just won India the first World T20? He gave away his match shirt to someone in the crowd and walked away quietly. And the suave captain who won India the 2011 World Cup? Spot him in any of the pictures? He let it be Tendulkar’s moment. He let it be about Indian cricket. It wasn’t about him and he didn’t force himself into every frame. It was actually his evening but he looked at it from afar. I thought it was cool. The sign of a confident man. He made a statement by not being there.

What he did in Test cricket was remarkable. He took his rustic game — the firm jab, the slash over point — and squeezed more out of it than you would have thought possible. An average of 38 is excellent for someone who did as many squats behind the stumps as he did, for someone who had to be in the game always. It is very difficult to be a wicket-keeper, captain and batsman. He did it for 60 Tests — remarkable.