Thats a Joke!

Sharad Pawar has disclosed that he has a stake in RCB.... This is one of the most absurd things that I could have heard. Holding a few thousand shares in the holding company may technically give him a stake in RCB... But one must realize that going by the above... all shares holders of United Spirits Limited (USL), of which Royal Challengers Sports Private Ltd (RCSPL) is a wholly-owned subsidiary hold stake in an IPL team.

I really don’t understand what Sharad Pawar is achieving by telling the media that "he is disclosing that he has a stake in RCB".

And we have leading media houses which are carrying headlines in their news channels and websites which read as "Pawar admits ownership link to Bangalore team"!!!! What a misleading headline that is!

Can we have a list of all politicians who hold shares in Deccan Chronicle, GMR, India Cements?? All of them have stakes in IPL teams!! :-)

This is media sensationalizing news at its best! In any case, I maintain what i have always been saying "There is more than that what meets the eyes when it comes to IPL."

Dividing our country....

I came across an excellent article on the subject (go to http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3596943). The summary of the article as putforth by the auother himself is

"Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi is known for his frank talk. But sometimes he fails to gauge the implications of his `frank comments’. By saying that commandos from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh saved Mumbai, Rahul is speaking the same divisive language of the Sena – dividing India on the lines of language and region"

I could not agree more with the views in the article. It has been articulated extremly well and has been very well written as well.

It is a quite a dangerous situation we are in!!!