MIKE HUSSEY IS THE SECOND MICHAEL BEVAN OF AUSTRALIA

Vijay: - first time in my life, I was supporting the Australian cricket team. Really, they just thrashed Pakistan in the semi final of ICC T-20 World cup tournament. Waqar Younis was just stunned to see that defeat.

Kamala: - Australian women cricket team has defeated our Indian women team in the semi final. That’s so sad.

Arindam: - I watched the women’s’ semi-final. There is hardly any difference between an Australian male cricketer and a women cricketer. Those Australian women cricketers were just flying and diving like Jonty Rhodes. After seeing them, I was asking question to myself, ‘Are they women or men?’ The fitness level of Indian women cricketers should improve if they really want to compete with the Australian and New Zealand women cricketers. Our Indian women cricketers are not so bad. Some of them play better cricket than Indian male cricketers. Mitali Raj and Anita Sharma can play any shots at anytime. Hamanpreet Kaur is not bad either, but she lacks power in her shots. Jhulan Goswami, as usual is good at bowling but needs to increase her pace a little.

Vijay: - Chee…you are a man and you watched the cricket match of women. They play like school children only.

Arindam: - I was also under that impression. But, after seeing the Australian women cricket team, I can bet that those women can even challenge the Australian men cricket team led by Michael Clarke.

Kamala: - Anyway, that team has won the ICC T-20 tournament, which was never expected to do so. The England cricket team under the cool headed Paul Collingwood won the tournament. Thank god, at least Pakistan has not reached the final, because, England have poor track record against Pakistan.

Vijay: - but, against Australia, England team always gives out the best performance, as they are the competitors of historical and traditional Ashes Series.

Arindam: - You people are giving some credit to the Australian cricket team, because they defeated our arch-rivals in the semi final. But, you people are not talking about a particular player, who batted consistently well in this tournament. Unfortunately, he failed in the final, but his brother played a decent innings, which was not enough to beat England.

Kamala: - You are talking about whom?

Arindam: - It is none other than Michael Hussey. Australia could have never reached the final of this tournament, unless Michael Hussey played a superb innings against Pakistan. When he came in to bat, the required run-rate for Australia was 12.48. He kept himself cool and didn’t panic. He was not playing any rash shots also. He was just milking the ball here and there to steal singles and was getting himself adjusted to the pitch. I don’t know whether you people remember or not. At one time, there were some players, who used to come at No.6 or No.7 slot and always proved to be the match winners. The players were Michael Bevan, Chris Cairns, Chris Harris, Lance Klusener, Robin Singh, Ajay Jadeja and many others. Recently, in IPL-3, it was Robin Uthappa.

Vijay: - Yeah, you are right. They used to steal away the match from the opponents at the slog overs. But, in my opinion, Michael Bevan is still the best in this category. He never used to throw away his wicket very easily. He used to stick to the basics and kept on improvising.

Kamala: - How do you define the word ‘improvising’ in cricket, as a batsman?

Arindam: - Well, let me give you an example. Say, you are a batsman, who is very strong in off-side. Your opponent captain will keep 5 fielders in the off-side ring. The bowlers will attack you in the off-stump area, as they know that there are 5 fielders to defend his bowling. Now, your sixth sense revealed that the distance of leg side boundary is lesser than that of off-side boundary. So, you will now intentionally take the risk to steer the off-stump ball to the leg-side boundary. That is improvisation. Do the hard work in initial period. Once your eyes are set in accordance to the pitch; just start playing smart cricket. Bevan used to play like that and Mike Hussey did exactly the same thing with Pakistan. Really, “MIKE HUSSEY IS THE SECOND MICHAEL BEVAN OF AUSTRALIA.”

ROYAL ROBOCOPS

General Singh: - Yes, you have got the right information. Instead of sending inefficient and coward CRPF men, we will send robot cops, known as ‘ROBOCOPS’ to kill all the Maoists in the Indian jungles. Also the Indian Air Force will help these robocops. 4 fleets of planes will fly in the sky at a time. We will spot the Maoists territories by using our Global Satellite mapping system. Already, we have marked those corridors, through which the Maoists cross the state borders. Already, we have started paying huge amount of money to those tribal villagers. The tribal villagers are giving us good information in time. We have also tracked 5 special hide-outs of Koteshwar Rao. Three of his faithful commandos are working under us as spies. They will help the robocops to gun down Koteshwar Rao.

Arindam: - Robocops are the robot cops. But, how do they look like? How does it function?

General Singh: - To know that answer, you need to meet Scientist Sain, who has created these robocops.

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Scientist Sain: - Oh! You are Arindam, right. Hmm…I know you. Come in and have some coffee with me. So, you want to know about robocops in details?

Arindam: - Yes, Sir. Actually, we, the media people want to know that how much efficient are these robocops in comparison to CRPF jawans or Indian Army men.

Scientist Sain: - A Robocop can kill 100 humans within 10 minutes. Come with me in my technical room. I will show you. See, this is a Robocop. Its height is around 8 feet. It has four cameras attached in the head. The cameras are in the forehead, back head, right side and left side portions. All the weapons are in-built. This is the box kept near its chest, which contains the bullets. In the right portion of its waist, there are three types of daggers. It can use anyone of them. At its backside, there is small couch-type bag, where a boomerang, star-weapon and 50 poison needles are kept. This robot can sense any landmines within the range of 10 meters both horizontally and vertically.

Arindam: - But, where are the guns? These robocops need to fight with guns also.

Scientist Sain: - Look at the left thigh of this robot. Three guns are attached. One is AK-47, another one is Sniper Gun and other one is a special revolver, which has three openings. That means; with this revolver it can fire three bullets at one shot. Now, there are rollers attached to the feet of this robot. Anytime, they can speed up in the road, by using these rollers.

Arindam: - Are their body completely bullet-proof?

Scientist Sain: - of course, yes. You can fire at them as much as you can, nothing will happen to them. Rather, they will automatically counterattack you.

Arindam: - There are no grenades kept in its body?

Scientist Sain:- No, I have not kept that provision, because if I keep grenades attached to its body, then its enemies will try to fire bullets at those grenades only. And the explosion will create some technical faults in the Robocop body.

Arindam: - Will the body of these robots get destroyed completely, if it experiences a landmine blast?

Scientist Sain: - The body of this robot will only get destroyed completely if it experiences at least 6 landmine blasts, otherwise, it will keep on fighting like a deadly warrior.

Arindam: - How can you control or send signals to these robots?

Scientist Sain: - These are self-controlled robots. They will behave like humans only. If you don’t attack them, they will not counterattack you automatically. But, yes, if we order them to attack, then they will attack anyone within their range of 5 meters. Suppose, these robocops are patrolling in the Maoist infested jungles, now, a group of Maoists have attacked it. When the robocops get attacked, automatically, a red light will glow with a beep sound in our control room. Then we will give the instruction ‘Go for the kill’, in our terminal. After getting that message, all the robocops get activated to start counterattacking. Then they will not stop fighting unless their enemies get killed or we order them to retreat. Basically, the psychologies of these robots are controlled by customizing the artificial intelligence and neural networking programming every month.

Arindam: - Hmm…I have no doubts that these “ROYAL ROBOCOPS” will destroy the Maoists.

CHEERFUL CARIBBEAN CRICKET CRAZY CROWDS (CCCCC)

Mitchelle: - Oho! Your Indian Cricket Team has played very poor cricket in this ICC T-20 Cricket of 2010. I really feel pity about your team. I have never visited India, but I have heard that in India, Cricket is like a religion.

Samir: - Yeah, quite true. You must watch a cricket match at Eden Gardens of Kolkata; then only you will understand how much crazy are the Indians, towards the game of Cricket. But, I am also amazed to see the West Indian crowds in this stadium. All the people are happy and enjoying themselves like anything. Many little children are blowing pipes. It produces more sound than our Indian blowpipes. Also, I can see some hot chicks dancing on the dais with the sponsored sky blue dress of Reliance. There is pink color at their back. One thing I don’t understand that why they are shaking their hips so much rather than other parts of the body.

Mitchelle: - Oh! That is our traditional tribal dance and if you don’t shake your hips, you can’t seduce a gentleman towards you, while dancing. See there, the girl who is dancing at the middle of the dais, is Christine, my younger sister.

Samir: - You people are dark-skinned, but your minds are like crystal-clear water. So, simple, you people are! By watching all the Caribbean people in this stadium, I feel as if there are no tensions in you people’s lives.

Mitchelle: - There are tensions, but can you ignore those from your life. So, why waste time in thinking about those tensions and depressing yourself. Drink alcohols, beat the drums, bath in the lovely beaches, play volleyball, dance like a crazy pirate and blow the pipes with your full breathe. There is only one life. No one knows when he or she will die. So, no matter, how much time you spend in this world, just live it fully with lots of fun and entertainment.

Samir: - This is the first time in my life, that I have visited West Indies. I came here to watch the ICC T-20 2010 tournament only. I have never seen the national flag of West Indies. I am seeing it now. Wow, in the national flag, there are three stumps of Cricket, which means that Caribbean people are also crazy about Cricket.

Mitchelle: - Of course. There was one time when West Indies Team used to rule the World Cricket like Lions. This small island country has produced cricketers like Sir Gary Sobers, Clive Lloyd, Vivian Richards, Joel Garner, Malcolm Marshall, Gus Logie, Curtly Ambrose, Courtney Walsh, Keith Atherton, Richie Richardson, Carl Hooper, Brian Lara, Patterson, Kalicharan, Chanderpaul and many others. We have won World Cup cricket for 2 times.

Samir: - Well, You cannot also take away the credit from the Indian Cricket Team of 1983. The Indian Tigers, under the leadership of Kapil Dev Nikhanj defeated the Caribbean Lions by scoring only 183 runs on board. The Indian players like Mahinder Amarnath, Sunil Gavaskar, Roger Binny, Ravi Shastri, Syed Kirwani and others were in rocking form at that time to stop the Caribbean cricketers’ journey of victory. After 1987, Australia started ruling the World Cricket.

Mitchelle: - Indian Cricket Team is not so bad at all. I am a fan of both Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara. Both are legends to me, but of different kind. Brian Lara should also play IPL. Chris Gayle and Kieron Pollard are firing in IPL, then why can’t my favorite Brian Lara do that?

Samir: - Accha, what are the different professions of these Caribbean crowds?

Mitchelle: - Our country is a poor country. Majority of Caribbean people are farmers and fishermen. Mother Nature has given us ample resources to survive well in this island country. Not only have that, the natural beauties of this country are superb. Tourism earns around 38% revenue of our country. People from all over the world come to visit our tourist spots. If you love beaches, forests, hills and fishing, then West Indies is our ideal place to enjoy. Hey, what is that sound in your laptop? Someone is pinging in your facebook chat.

Samir: - Ya, he is Arindam from India. He has spotted me inside the stadium, while viewing the live telecast of this Cricket match in Star Cricket TV Channel.

Mitchelle:- Tell your friend, Arindam, that you are enjoying the lovely ambience of “CHEERFUL CARIBBEAN CRICKET CRAZY CROWDS (CCCCC) “.

KING OF MOUTHSHUT.COM

Arindam: - Viewers! We have kept our promise. Today, in this episode of ‘WINE WITH ARINDAM’, we have invited the Mr. WWOW (Writing Wizard of Wonderland). Welcome to the show, Mr. WWOW. This is a special branded French Red Wine, specially ordered for you only. Just enjoy drinking it. Accha, Mr. Wwow, what is the secret behind your unique writing? I mean, how do you strategize, before writing on anything?

Mr. Wwow: - Strategy? Ha ha ha…very funny question! Well, before writing on anything, you need to ask the question that ‘why am I going to write about that topic? Am I trying to convey any message to the society or am I trying to raise a question, which will be answered by the readers only?’

Arindam: - why do you write dramas, rather writing it in a straightforward fashion?

Mr. Wwow: - If I tell you that you must never feed milk to a poisonous snake, then you will hardly respond to it. But, instead of doing that, if I create a character, which is exactly similar with your character and create a real-life look-alike drama, where you are bitten by that poisonous snake, then that message will directly impact in your heart. Then, you will understand that these things can happen to you also.

Arindam: - but, to do that, why you create too many characters, which remains inactive for most of the time?

Mr. Wwow: - When you go to eat some hi-fi dishes in a 5-star hotel, have you noticed the dishes very carefully? There are some ingredients in those dishes, which do not change the taste of that food, but still they are used, because it gives a good presentation of that dish. When you are ordering a chicken curry dish in a roadside restaurant, a boy will come and give you a bowl, full of chicken curry only, but that same curry will be served to you in an aristocratic manner by a chef in a 5-star hotel. In my stories or articles, the inactive characters are used to add momentum or twist to the story. These characters will enter in the story at anytime, and will steer the story to a different route, where the thriller starts.

Arindam: - Many characters in your story are totally out of imagination. But, those characters become realistic, during the later part of the story. Is there any motive behind it?

Mr. Wwow: - All characters are not imaginary. The blogs on travel and tours do not have any imaginary characters. The story and the characters are all real, only the names of few characters are changed due to some security purposes. But, if you look at the other stories on romance, thrillers and terrorism, some characters are totally imaginary and providing proper justification to those characters is a challenging task. The biggest problem I face is when I create too many new characters inside a story. In those cases, you need to think like a football coach, about where you should fit the right player at the right spot to make it a fantastic story. As a writer, when you create fictitious characters, you will feel as if you have given life to some robots and they are continuously interacting with you in the virtual world. That’s where the ball starts rolling on the floor. Imaginary characters become realistic at the end of the story, because I always start thinking by putting myself on the shoes of those characters. After all, I cannot deny that I think like a human being, not like an alien.

Arindam: - Why do you write in such a pace, where the readers don’t get the time to finish reading your articles at one shot? Is it a strategy to eye-wash your readers?

Mr. Wwow: - Writing is directly proportional to your moods, no matter, how much experienced a writer you are. Just by reading an article, an experienced reader can make out about your mood at that point, when you wrote that. When I am in a writing mood, I can even write 10 dangerous articles within 6 hours.

Arindam: - Hmm…You are still rocking in Mouthshut.com, and hope you will continue that. Are you trying to prove that you are the “KING OF MOUTHSHUT.COM”?

Mr. Wwow: - Not at all. I am rather happy and contented to rule like a King in my own creative world. Faisal’s Mouthshut.com and Google’s Blogger.com have just provided me that space of creativity, where I love to rule and rock.

Arindam: - Viewers, we will end our show, here. See you later, till then, Goodbye.