VOICE FROM LEFT VENTRICLE OF WHORE-DENS

Brothels/ Whore dens are not only homes to sex workers, brothels are graves of several dreams and aspirations, they are the cremation grounds where several hope, desires, futures are cremated every day. In these cremation grounds a girl dies every moment, every second but there is no one to mourn over the loss. There are several voices of various kinds which can be heard in brothels like of a little child weeping who is trying to find her mother, of a female screaming of pain, giggles of young girls and loud music. But still if you look closer into the eyes of these young girls, of that child weeping and that woman screaming you will be able to notice that horrifying silence which will not let you sleep.

I am 18 and yes, this is my home. I live in a brothel with my mother and my 3 sisters. My mother is a sex worker, a prostitute, a whore, a call girl. She is been working constantly for us ever since I remember. She works whole day to get us manageable lives. Recently, I also joined the family profession yes, I am also a prostitute but an educated one. I have better clientele than my mother. I am writing this to take you through our lives and give you a perspective into what we do and why we do it?

My mother was sold here by her own father when she was 15 because he was an alcoholic. She still remembers fairly when as a teenager, how dirty she felt when a man of around 45 years of age touched her for the first time. She was scared to the hilt and screamed throughout, but her voice dint reach anywhere. She was bleeding profusely that day and had bite marks all over her body. After her first encounter she still remembers that she was lying on that bed for next few hours like a dead loath of meat. She had realized by now that this is her fate. Such encounters became too normal after few months and by now she had accepted her life and had even started smiling, giggling and dancing with the other girls.

But her smile, those giggles were short lived because soon she realized that she was expecting. Though for a girl of 16 years of age pregnancy is nothing but a freedom of 9 months from menstruations but soon she realized that she will be responsible for a life in few months. Obviously, she dint know who my father was and could not expect anything from anyone. But I can’t even complain because none of us children in brothels know who our fathers are and honestly we don’t even care because we are a result of their sexual satisfactions and nothing more. We understand very early in age what a sexual satisfaction is unlike other children of our age because that is the biggest reason of our existence. Coming back to my mother, she worked day and night to raise us, to give us education and a perspective in life. I am glad that now I can help her, as a year back I also joined this profession.

Looking back at my mother’s life and my future ahead I have several questions in my mind. Why does brothels exist atoll? Who are they for? Why are we blamed for them? Why are we seen with that stink in the eye? Why are we not part of you all? Why are we an abuse, a taboo, a black spot to the society? Aren’t we the result of sexual desires of this society? Don’t we exist because you need us? Yes, we do paid sex but who pays us and who needs us at the first place?

So, finally one question, WHO IS TO BE BLAMED FOR THIS?

WC 2015 S/F! 6 DAYS TO GO! OZ! OOPS! DIAL V FOR VICTORY!

So what were the reasons India clinically, breezed into the semi-finals? Several reasons amounted to the show. Scalping 70 wickets in 7 games, not losing a wicket in the second power-play, fielding was world-class, batsman were taking turns to stand up, MSD has his head on his shoulders and with the bat, it shows.

In the last one year whenever we have been writing articles on Team India or reviewing their performances, Virat Kohli has always trended. Hence when I could not use his name even once in my first paragraph, I was forced to ponder to discover the reason. Any batter would qualify as a hit batsman if his average is 60+, but here even with that average we are forced to feel he is still due for a big one. To be honest, I felt 107 was just the trailer, and more goodies are on the cards. But not to be!

If India is having a dream run in the Cup, the credit has to be shared. But, now with under six-days to go for the pre-summit clash, against a team that has made it a habit to tame India in the last couple of months, the ask looks tall.

With SCG being the venue for the ‘battle of the equals’, the focus will shift on Virat Kohli to stand up and get counted. He has been India’s saviour man, superman and a true dynamo in the half a dozen years. In 2011, Virat was playing under the shadow and aura of Sachin. Hence, the question will be, ‘Can Kohli create his own niche?’, ‘Can Kohli use this Cup to become a cricketing great, like his predecessor Sachin Tendulkar’?

There is no doubt that he has what it takes to make merry at the biggest stage of them all, hence is year 2015 his year? Has Kohli chosen Australia as his stage to go big? Can he face the likes of Starc and Johnson bowling at 145 kmph+, with their tails up? Big players select big occasions, like Sachin chose 2003 Pakistan. An attack, that comprised of the lethal trio of Waqar, Wasim and Shoaib.

The team will surely look up to Kohli to deliver, come Oz and SCG on the 26^th of March.

Saina ”The wonder girl”

Badminton over the years has never attracted significant attention in Indian sports. Cricket being the unofficial national sport of India, has always hogged headlines. It is surely ‘the ultimate’ for an Indian sports lover. Even a Vishwanathan Anand winning the World Chess championship five times never brought about a significant rise in the popularity of the sport. Honestly, how many of us actually knew it? The answer would be a handpicked few. The other side of this story is different; ask an Indian how many times has India won the Cricket World cup? The majority will jump the trigger and say 1983 and 2011, and if one doesn’t know the right answer he would be out-casted as a non Indian citizen. Then there is a huge question that would pass our minds, ‘why is Saina Nehwal so popular’? She is by no stretch of imagination related to cricket, then how is she the sporting toast of the nation. Possibly the answer is London 2012, or maybe because she hails from the city of of Md.Azharuddin and VVSLaxman or because her name is quite identical to Sania(Indian Tennis player). Whatever be the answer, currently she is the queen of the badminton world, especially, after her success at London where she won bronze, followed by the Denmark Open win. Then let us dig into the reasons of why sports lovers across the country drool about this Hydrabadi girl.

Ace schuttler Saina Nehwal was born on 17th March 1990 in Hisar District, Haryana and is a sensational badminton player currently ranked number 3 in the world by the Badminton World Federation. Saina is the first Indian to win the World Junior Badminton Championships and the first Indian to win a medal in Badminton at the Olympics. She won a Bronze medal at the 2012 London Olympic, becoming the second Indian women to win an individual medal at the Olympics. She is supported by the Olympic Gold Quest.

 Her love and romance with the sport started under the apt guidance of S.M. Arif, who was a Dronacharya Awardee, and her proud coach. She is currently coached by Indonesian badminton legend Atik Jauhari along with former all England champion and national coach Pullela Gopichand as her mentor. Being born to Harvir Singh Nehwal, who is a scientist at Directorate of Oilseeds Research and Usha Nehwal, who is a former Haryana state champion; Saina Nehwal has always received the support of her family members. She surely has given India an identity in the world of badminton. Super Saina comes across as a girl who possesses the, ‘devil-may-care’ attitude. On court she is like a tigress to say the least, and looks like a human creature possessed. Immense self-belief, perseverance and confidence, separates her from the crowd. Doesn’t her wrist work with the drop shots remind us of Md.Azharuddin or a VVS Laxman? There is surely something about these Hydrabadi’s, they are special just like the Hydrabadi Biriyani.

 It is said that talent without hard work is of zilch use. Sensational Saina followed a tough routine at a very early age. As an 8 yrs old, Saina followed a very tough training schedule where would travel almost 50kms a day. Such was the intensity of her relationship with the sport that she was sponsored by Yonex, a sports equipment manufacturing company, at the age of 12. Did you know she is a brown-belt in karate? That possibly gives her an advantage over her competitors. Karate helps one to attain super reflexes and that in turn increases her mobility on court. She has undoubtedly revolutionized the sport of badminton.  

Her rise to the top also means that many will now take to the sport seriously, as a career option. Ace badminton player Saina Nehwal has almost as many titles under her belt as her age. Well, that is how incredible and amazing this ‘revolutionary’ is. She is ‘revolutionary’ because she has also become the face of the women sporting fraternity in India. Her achievements are colossal. Will the nation ever see someone ever achieve half of what she has achieved? As of now let us just bask in the glory of her success and say its ‘Set, Match and Championship’ to the queen from India. 

Tete-e-tete with Nagender Chindam: Crusader of NRI voting rights

Nagender Chindam, the original petitioner in the NRI voting case and the crusader who made the NRI population heard in the portals of the Supreme Court of India for casting their ballots online, is a family man who refuses to rest on his laurels. He finds himself bemused by the sudden attention -- be it his colleagues or long lost childhood friends who cannot stop congratulating him on his achievement.

The 33-year-old NagenderChindam is the founder and chairman of Pravasi Bharat on whose petition the Supreme Court of India cleared the decks for NRI voting rights. Chindam, originally from Hyderabad and currently living in Milton Keynes, the UK, obtained his mechanical engineering degree from National Institute of Technology, Warangal. He founded Pravasi Bharat in 2012 as a campaign group for NRI voting rights. 

In an interviewon the eve of his visit to India for an important hearing in the case, he is both jubilant and positive on the outcome of the NRI’s voting rights case.

Excerpts from his interview:

A) So, who is Nagender Chindam? A family man or a revolutionist? How do you create a balance between family life and Pravasi Bharat campaign?

Honestly, I wouldn’t have achieved this without the support of my wife as she takes care of my kids whenever I am out for Pravasi Bharat’s event. She doesn’t even complain when I spend more time on Pravasi Bharat’s event instead of home. Luckily, being a well educated lady, she understands the importance of every vote; her moral support during the tough times was my strength to move forward.

Actually, these days, it is getting really very difficult to balance work and professional life, and in our case we have to manage personal lives  and our job abroad (in my case as a Software Consultant) and additional work for the social cause at the same time– It was same with every core member of Pravasi Bharat, we had to spend day and night  and our weekends for the cause. Sometimes, it was very difficult to manage – As a family man, it is expected that you take your kids out at least during weekends/during their holidays.  It used to be extremely difficult when the events of Pravasi Bharat were clashing with family events.  My older son Srimaan Chindam was very supportive whenever I used to tell him to take out some other time.

It was hard. But I did my best to balance both – Whenever I said that Pravasi Bharat is my baby – my wife used to say that it's more than your baby because you focused much more on Pravasi Bharat’s event rather than our kid’s birthday celebration. I'm quite thankful to my wife and the core team of PB who gave me an immense support and shared responsibilities when it was needed the most.

I am a family man, staying with my wife and two little boys (The elder one is 5 years old going to school while the little one is only 2 years old) in a family home at MiltonKeynes, UK. My mother used to visit us hardly once in 6 months. We have our family house (parents) in Regimental Bazaar, Secunderabad – it’s a small house that has only one room, we still own it and preserved it as well.

B)How did the movement start?                                                                                                                           I  started the movement with the very basics by creating a website,  Facebook page, online petitions and writ petition drafts for the Supreme Court of India. I started researching absentee ballot policies all across the world.Being an Indian citizen, I wrote so many letters to the heads of all major employers, requesting them to allow and aid their employees to exercise their fundamental right.I wanted to approach the Supreme Court way before  starting the campaign group, but it was important to put valid points before the proceeding.We used the step by step process to form our core team and  held our first demonstration on August 31, 2012, urging the Government of India to provide an absentee voting option for NRIs.Through the high commissioner's office in London,we submitted the petition addressed to the prime minister of India and the Election Commission of India In October 2012, taking inspiration from Gandhiji’s Salt March, we organised a London March as a form of protest. We submitted our petition to the Supreme Court first in February 2013. Last month, the court asked the government to assure that our right to vote is ensured within eight weeks.

C) What were the main reasons that inspired you to start the movement?                                   Being a software engineer living abroad, i realize that most of the professionals were not using their right to vote due to busy work schedules or their location. Even I had not exercised this right myself. According to me, every vote is important in a democracy. As a proud Indian citizen living abroad, it was really  very unfortunate that I was unable to vote in Indian elections unless I was in the country.                                                                                                 Gandhiji, Dr Ambedkar were both non-resident Indians during their lives and would’ve potentially missed the opportunity to vote in times such as ours.The only  area where we needed to and certainly could improve was one of increasing our voting percentage. Back in 2009, it was only about 59 per cent in India, which I felt very low.

D) According to you, what aspect of the movement proved to be the most important in this victory?                                                                                                                                                                    In 2014, when the general elections were only a few months away, I went on a three-day hunger strike that ended on Republic Day  in front of the Gandhi statue at Tavistock Square. For someone who eats rice three times a day, it was a tough three days.There are about 10 million Indian citizens staying abroad, and with 543 parliamentary constituencies, this means an astonishing average of 18,000 votes per constituency may get polled from abroad. These additional votes, if polled, will obviously play a crucial role in providing greater representation to the public in our democracy. I thought ‘If India can reach out to Mars, can’t it enable its citizens abroad to vote?’

E) How does a simple software engineer feel about the sudden attention from the media all across the world?

What made me much happier was obviously the achievement of absentee ballot for more than 10 million people.The media really gives you a sense of pride and connect. For example, some childhood schoolmates/friends who had never been in touch with you for more than a decade – but send you a message through Fb/twitter congratulating once they got the news...and person from remote village somewhere in India whom you happened to meet 20 years ago but get in touches with you with warm greetings....It happened. Thanks to media for spreading the news & the importance to each and every corner of the world.

F) What will be your agenda after this victory? 

At the moment, we will continue our work as the watchdogs for this issue until the postal ballot is successfully implemented. We will watch the process as EC would do pilot implementations first and then spreads it to the General elections in future. Our next job is to urge all eligible NRIs to get registered and utilise their valuable votes without any hassle.

And as a Pravasi Bharat campaigner, we always took up the social battles for good cause, be it a protest against the Delhi rape incident, contributing to Kasmir flood relief – we did our best and we will continue to do the good work within our best abilities.

IND V BAN Q/F WC 2015: CAN ONE OF TEAMS PUSH THE APOGEE? A SWOT ANALYSIS

Both the sub-continental teams, India and Bangladesh are playing outstanding cricket in their own capacity. With team India this (6 wins) was not unimaginable, but with their poor run of form in the Australia tour, this was a far -fetched feat. On the contrary, for Bangladesh to make the cut for the Q/F’s was again a far-fetched team. So, what worked for the two teams? Playing in unison, no over-dependency on an individual, sticking to a belief and working hard to achieve it. Many, many factors have played distinct roles. This also becomes the first time that Asian teams have made it four-out-of-four.

Q/F BOUT: Melbourne Cricket Ground will host the second quarters which will see ‘the team to beat’ India take on a ‘spirited’ Bangladesh. Batting first will surely be on mind of the captains. India will start favourites but Bangladesh vow to give a fight.

Strengths India: The team is winning with contributions from ever player. All big guns have had a decent knock in the league stage. Ahead of the tournament there were doubts over the potency of the Indian bowlers, surprisingly they have been delivering big. India has bowled out all the teams which will give everyone around the team confidence. The fielding has been top-notch tough we have dropped an odd catch here and there. Captain MSD has been in supreme form, bailing the team out of a spot of bother on two occasions, an art he has mastered.

Weakness India: It is really hard to find a real weakness, but yes, the batting in the slog overs has somewhat disappointed the fans. When they needed to wreck havoc with wickets in the bag against SA and Pakistan, they did not achieve what was expected.

Opportunity India: An easy semi-final berth for the taking, if they just play to 70 percent of their potential.

Threat India: Apart from rain and Mahmudullah nothing should bother India.

Strengths Bangladesh: They may have been hot and cold at times, but they managed to win the key moments of the competition which saw them through. Mahmudullah has hit a purple patch and he will be India’s biggest threat apart from Tamim and Mushfiqur Rahim. Rubel has been firing all cylinders this tournament and that augurs well for the upcoming match. You can never avoid Shakib, the experience and presence he brings to the table is unmatchable.

Weakness Bangladesh: Gifting away wickets at crucial junctures has been a long persisting pang with this team. Lack of experience in knowing how to cross the line. Openers have not been clicking and this is again a major problem. Shakib is a big player, and he is not delivering with the bat or the ball. They have never earned a reputation of being a good fielding unit and this time round it is no different.  

Opportunity Bangladesh: Win the toss, bat first, pose 280+, and get early wickets to put pressure on India. Big game, knockout stage, you never know with runs onboard.

Threat Bangladesh: Entire team India which is brimming with confidence.

IS READING SYDNEY SHELDON A CRIME? THIS IS 2014 A.D. AND NOT 204 B.C.

Deja-vu of sorts, childhood days suddenly brought to mind the restriction of Sidney Sheldon novels from the school library. We were only allowed to pick them if we were the senior most. School seniors had enlightened me that there were erotic slabs in his stories. Not to mention, a friend refused to take up the books as they were ‘lewd’ and would ‘corrupt’ him--Jesus Christ, I felt what on Earth is stuffed in her top floor! What value does the brilliance of plot, sheer resolve of the female protagonist have? One must be at arm’s length to such audacious literary creations--I was hinted by him. Then there were those who seemed to read only those passages describing sex, ‘wierdom’ in full throttle. It is drilled into young minds right from childhood, Sex, Erotica, Lust; one shall stay away from it. My sole question is, why?
The other day I was reading Sidney’s autobiography. Believe you me! There were portions where I could relate with the legend. This does not mean I live in Alice in Wonderland. It makes me sad as I know, for sure, these exercises are practiced in the first world countries. They embrace sex and love with grace, and that is how it is supposed to be. In our society, during our childhood, we were in the oblivion about these natural phenomena called ‘SEX’. It was wrong! Our parents…teachers refused to talk about it which I felt like shying away from their ‘responsibility’. Now, do not hit the roof but understand why I feel it should be a part of their ‘responsibility’.
I think not talking to your kids about sex is wrong--so wrong that it’s almost like child exploitation for me. Pardon me, for being bold --but it’s simply what I feel.

Choosing to raise a child to adulthood is a responsibility, and a part of that responsibility is to prepare them for being an adult-- in the adult world.


The reason why most parents and teachers are too scared to talk about sex with their kids is probably because they come from generations which were not at ease talking about SEX. Moral science, a bubble of feel-good ideas that most parents and teachers grew up with want to pass on to their kids. Uneducated folks raise uneducated kids, and the cycle continues.

Children should learn the basics of animal reproduction from about age 7. A lot of people think that the time is not ripe. I know people who were having sex at 8-9. They didn't know what they were doing, it felt good, it was fun and they didn't use protection.
About 5 years ago, there was a whole bunch of 10 year olds who had a STD that had been passed around by their peers because nobody had taken the initiative to enlighten them about safe sex. Ignorance leads to risky and dodgy behavior!

These days communication is more important than ever. With the increased spread of dangerous sexually transmitted infections, talking about sex you could literally save your life. While the cold mechanics of safer sex may seem a bit unromantic, some of the alternatives - embarrassing trips to the clinic, unsightly diseases, or even death -- aren’t exactly sexy/cool either. In the end, whether you practice safe sex is your sole discretion, but whatever your choice is, it’s a good idea to understand the benefits and risks associated with your decision.

AMIT SHAH: THE ARCHITECT BEHIND MODI’S RISE

Even two years back if you vividly remember BJP was still not looking like the party which will lap up a clear mandate with patriarch LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi helming party affairs. But three months pre LS 2014, and you just knew there was one party and one man, the name was Narendra Damodar Modi. To be honest there was not even a close second. How did the BJP world take such a globbertrottish turn? The answer is Amit Shah.

An old friend of Modi from the RSS days, he knew the game. He knew how to number crunch, and how to turn the tide. Well, the result speaks volumes. Whenever, Modi-Shah have combined to work in tandem, they have always hit a purple patch. The consecutive Gujarat victories of Modi proved more than a point. But, 2014 was the big stage, a platform where Amit Shah did not have any prior experience of. Yet, he always managed to niche a perfect platform for Modi to swoon audiences. Rallies after rallies, never ending press conferences, arranging the mob, Amit Shah went from pillar to post to get things in order for Modi to take centrestage.

So, who is Amit Shah?

First up he is Modi’s right hand man. Shah on record is a shady figure. He was accused of engineering two fake police encounters in 2004. He was hence also forced to resign and that was followed by his arrest. Shah still maintains his initial stand and says he is not guilty and was framed.

He then returned to Gujarat and won the elections in 2012. This is when the game-plan started, the game plan to throw the corrupt Congress out of power.

Fast forward two years and today Amit Shah is the chief of the ruling party of a country which has a whopping population of 1.25 billion people. He was also instrumental in architecting the U.P win. A victory, which will go down in the history books as ‘one to remember’ because BJP has always been snubbed by the UP’ites. Today, Amit Shah has a bigger role to play and we wish him all the courage and luck.

SIX-IEST EVER WORLD CUP? NOT REQUIRED!!

This according to the pundits and pitch curators is set to be the sexiest World Cup ever. That is because they purely took into consideration the number of sixes that would be hit in this mega spectacle. The pitches this year in the southern hemisphere are mostly drop-in pitches, not the typical Australian pitch, where the ball bounces ferociously, darts in and out unpredictably and  the pace is tremendous, unlike low puffy, dusty Indian pitches.

This generation is growing up to heavy bats, smaller grounds, excessive fielding restrictions, the helicopter shot, T20. Is this helping cricket? This question can attract a real difference of opinion. But as I am the author hence I will use my powers to let you know that the balance between the bat and the ball has widened immensely. This surely is not good news for the beautiful old game.

In the past, it was unheard of teams surpassing the 400 run mark. Today, even with so many runs in the bank you are not guaranteed a victory. Rohit Sharma hits two double tons in ODI’s, ask even the great Kapil Dev in 1983, even he would have formed a very poor impression of your cricketing IQ. This is reality and this is modern day cricket, where even if you are not technically sound you can survive. Class and quality take a back seat. Bowlers today are scared to pitch the ball up to get it swing, hence a quality Kapil Dev and Wasim Akram possessed could go extinct like the art of leg-spin almost has.

In NZ, with grounds designed for rugby being used for the WC, the boundaries in certain portions of the ground would be ridiculously smaller than the others and the batsman would target these areas and that will force them to play agricultural shots. What happens next? We lose out on watching a gorgeous cover-drive or an all-along-the-ground straight drive back past the bowler.

This cricketing scenario tickles me to parallels with the Indian Bollywood, which has turned from being a trade of rich art to being a trade of sleaze and sex.

All this analysis brings me to the moot question again; do we go to the grounds or get glued to our T.V sets to watch just sixes or something more?

Conundrum over WC format; 7 recommendations to save our so-called religion

Cricket has not re-invented itself ever, like it has this time round in the Land of Oz. That day is not far-off when we would see teams chasing scoring 500 and 400 being chased easily. A TV presenter rightly said the other day, that like the English alphabets begin with A,B,C,D, cricket begins with A,B,D,V. So, true! Going at seven per over is considered, ‘OK’. Boundary acrobatics are considered normal, and the extra fielder inside the 30 yard during middle-overs is suicide for bowlers. This is making survival of a bowler in a batsman’s world difficult.

We must think bigger instead of smaller. We must plan a competition that truly expands the game, and keeps it vivid in people's minds for ages. We must architect a World Cup that takes cricket to new horizons of exposure and support.

It is the time to capitalise on the confidence of the underdogs and push them into the spotlight for good. With T20 becoming the ideal format for domestic cricket globally, this is the age where the game can truly expand.

After extensive debates with knowledgeable cricket lovers, it finally boils down to this. I have zeroed in on 7 recommendations that may bring the perfect balance to the game:

1.     BOUNCE’EM THRICE: Three bouncers an over may help. This will keep the batsman guessing and hence slogging every ball may end, and class may take over.

2.     OLD SCHOOL, 4 IN 5 OUT: Let’s force batsmen to rely on singles and twos and earn his boundary. This will also allow spinners to flight the ball otherwise the art of spin is slowly but surely evaporating.

3.     10 TEAMS, ROUND-ROBIN: The group stage this year WC 2015 is like a foreplay session, teams getting warm and generating hunger for the knock-outs. If the 10-team format is followed then, it will help the associate nations immensely in improving their standards. Honestly, Zimbabwe and West Indies do not deserve to be test playing nations. Ireland does, here is the irony.

4.     THE 40-OVER FORMULA: The existing 40 overs competition, with most matches played on Sunday afternoons, is more popular with spectators than 50-overs cricket, which require a morning start, because their commercial considerations which have to be taken into account. Here the overs should be completed by 160 minutes.

5.     ‘A’ SPINNER MANDATORY: This has to somehow be made mandatory or else my son/daughter will never witness or counter spin all their lives. With heavier bats, smaller boundaries spinners are becoming the fewer and fewer. Like the ‘Save the Tiger’ campaigns all across the world ICC should think of spinner saving campaigns as well.

6.     INCREASE THE QUOTA OF OVERS: Allow 12 overs to one bowler and 8 to the other and the rest can be fixed at 10 mandatory overs. This will allow the best bowler of the opposition, to get a longer crack at his opposition making things a wee-bit difficult for the batters. This will bring balance of some degree to the table.

7.     UNIFORMITY OF BAT WEIGHTS: There should be a rule in place, that bats should not weigh more than a certain figure or else you will see Gayle sending the ball to orbit whereas others will not even come close. Simple reason: the grounds, much like golf courses around the world, are struggling to contain the ball in the field of play. Sixes are struck now with ease. Mis-hits for the maximum are common. The bowler is at his wit's end. Any more grand technology to the bat and the game will become alien. So let’s fix to a certain dimension and weight and use that as the limit.

If some serious introspection is done, I am sure the game will benefit and our religion will remain untarnished and holy.