Vacillating Reflections of an Oscillating Mind

It’s not always that greatness has a successor. History gave enough instances to make us believe that “Pandita Putra is always a parama suntha” (son of a great person is always a useless dud or may not be that great).. Shivaji & Shambaji; Sunil Gavaskar and Rohan Gavaskar; Akbar & Jahangir; (No fault of Rohan here) However, we also have instances of some exceptions, Raja Raja Chola & Rajendra Chola. Though not a father-son duo, Sunil Gavaskar -Sachin Tendulkar, Sachin Tendulkar- Virat Kohli. A similar analogy can be drawn to Ghantasala and S P Balasubramanium. Ghantasala was indeed the toughest void to fill for his mellifluous voice saw the golden era of Telugu cinema with superior music, pristine lyrics, that it was impossible to emulate or fill in the gulf. Stepped up Balu with an iconic debut alongside arguably the greatest Playback singer of Indian Cinema in the film eeka veera through the song “Prati raatri vasanta raatri" As time flew by and music and melody were...

Fielding never came naturally to me and I was guilty of dropping some crucial catches in my limited career as a playe r. Though sometimes a more relaxed self was taking tough catches making them look simpler, it was only by chance rather than conviction. Last night was watching Select Dugout (always prefer this channel for the insightful views the pundits there give instead of regular star sports). The match was going one way; while enjoying the ranting tweets of the greatbong, catching up the later part of the game having my dinner with little realization that these were the last Live minutes of Dean Jones on air. During the course of this one sided game, Professor Deano managed to make the telecast interesting by coming up with a priceless bit of advice; viz. while attempting to catch skiers, always ensure the hands are partially overlapped and your dominant hand is receiving the ball so that it remains intact and does not spill off. Was thinking if only such cricketing intelligence ...