Cricket mania in India. Also the kid who has been bursting crackers since a month!

The Indian team is to play the first one day cricket international at Rajkot tomorrow. The media is abuzz about who came when, who ate what and what not! Why this craziness about cricket players? Cricket is played (well) by about six countries in the world, India included. It is not that cricket is a truly international game like say, soccer. Even if India wins the cricket world cup, it has to defeat only five other teams. What is the big deal in that? But try telling that cricket crazy Indians. "Indians on top in cricket", screamed a headline in a reputed daily the other day. Give me a break!


There is one five year kid in the building who has been bursting crackers since Dussehra. Diwali is gone. Almost 15 days have gone since. But the kid religiously bursts crackers everyday in the evening. Not crackers, 'bombs' is the stuff he lights up every evening. And he gives me a headache! My only hope is that this bombings will stop once the kid's school opens on coming Monday. The kid is a ladlaa of a nouveau rich family who made riches in recant years selling sanitary ware. The family thinks the kid is so very smart, bursting all those bombs since a month. It is more like a prestige issue for them. "Our kid bursts costly bombs. We can afford them, see." that seems to be the mentality. All the residents of the building have got very vulgar in their choice of 'gaalis',but to no avail. And who the hell has heard of the Supreme Court judgement that says that crackers can only be burst till ten in the evening? The kid comes out with his bag of bombs every evening after dinner. At ten thirty.