India have won
the multi-brand Retail FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) Test fought vehemently in
the most happening playground of the Indian Parliament since the beginning of
the winter session on November 22, 2012. With Rajya Sabha, the upper house,
defeating the opposition motion by 14 votes in the second innings today the
Government of India has finally cleared the way for 51% FDI in the $500 Billion
Indian multi-brand retail market and the much required further economic reforms.
Lok Sabha, the lower house, had already defeated the voting motion convincingly
in the first innings played on December 5, 2012. Though it was an executive decision of the Government the opposition wanted a debate with voting in Parliament. How the final victory came
about…well…ours not to reason why, ours but to wait and watch!
In this unique
Test Team India
always knew what was right for the country. Team Opposition could hardly
differentiate ‘right’ from ‘left’ or from ‘centre’ and yet succeeded in making
an alliance of ‘right’ and ‘left’ in a classic resistance to change or reforms.
Neither here nor there entity called Mamata—the first ingredient of the deadly M3—put all her might to push the bus against reforms and change. But the other
two ingredients of M3—Mulayam and Mayawati—became the match winners in both the
innings. Because, they knew exactly what is right or left or centre, and
fortunately they knew more politics and less economics. How the ruling
coalition UPA managed the playground rules…well again…our job is to wait for the
benefits of FDI for the struggling Indian economy. The Scorecard:
As the
frustrated opposition leaders still cry for the ‘common’ man forced to become
salesmen or salesgirls the farmers’ organization of Maharashtra
today celebrated the success of the Government. The UPA missed one vote though,
that of their MP in Rajya Sabha Sachin Tendulkar due to his work in the cricket
playground in Kolkata, and this brings us to the other Test.
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| Alistair Cook On A Song! |
In the third
cricket Test between India and England played in Kolkata from December 5, 2012 Team
India has again demonstrated its inability to differentiate right from the
wrong, very much like the opposition political parties and allowed its ‘foreign’
opposition to go on crushing them for the second consecutive time at home.
Skipper MS Dhoni’s pitch battle finally did not get him a rank turner at Eden Gardens,
but in a placid and slow pitch where the ball hardly did anything his class
batsmen fell in heaps again to reach a precarious total of 316 runs.
England pacers
and spinners both excelled in the lifeless pitch and their batsmen played magnificently
looking determined to conquer the last frontier this time. English captain
Alistair Cook seems to be on a song picking up his third successive Test
hundred against India
and missing the second double hundred of the Series thanks to a freak run out
for 190. He also beat Sachin Tendulkar’s world record by becoming the youngest
player ever to cross 7000 Test runs; became the first English cricketer to
score four successive centuries in four Tests and the highest number of
centuries (23) for England. Like their batting pals Indian bowlers failed to
extract anything out of the pitch. The Scorecard:
At 509 for 6 at
stumps on the third day today England
enjoys a lead of 193 runs so far. Assuming
the ‘pitch’ mentality of the Indian cricketers as a given Team India is
looking at another humiliating defeat in Kolkata. England set to go up 2-1 in the four-Test
Series.
