Idle Thoughts

As was expected and anticipated by all crickets fans Sachin completed his 50 th test hundred on 16 th Dec. As we have seen so many times he removed his helmet. Helmet in one hand and his bat in the other, he looked up skywards, as he has done many times before. But this time it was not a glance at the sky – His eyes searched the skies wistfully as a school boy searching in the crowd to see if his parents made it to his performance. I did not know then why my heart ached at such a happy moment. Later in an interview Sachin said that the previous day was the birth anniversary of his dad and he would like to dedicate this century to him. Here is to this God of cricket, who remains to be more human than the most of us!

I picked up this book from one of the bookshops in my office campus during an after-lunch-idle-browsing-session. The cover promised to provide 'business lessons from Steve Jobs, the man who saved Apple'. It was curious to see that he was not described as the man who created Apple, but as the man who saved Apple. I guess it is more heroic to 'save' a company than just grow it from nothing. In that sense, it worked out well for Steve that he was kicked out of Apple and that Apple got itself rotted. I had no expectation from the book and the book met it admirably. It is an easy read, especially if you are interested in Apple and Steve Jobs. It talks about how Steve Jobs rebuilt Apple from the ruins. The first thing that he did was to clean up the product-line, especially narrowing down the number of models and configurations. While the rest of the PC industry was all about providing as much choice to the customer, he saw that it was Apple's opportunity to differentiate

Today when I saw the announcement in “Times Now” that “Raggers go Scot free”, I thought that the court had pronounced them innocent. Then came the details – they have been granted bail. The accused are not powerful, influential people by themselves who would obstruct the investigation or the process of justice. As long as there is no law to keep influential parents in custody for crimes committed by their children, there is nothing much to do on this count. The accused students are not a threat to the society if they are let free. Since they will not be allowed back in their college now, they will not have the opportunity to commit similar crimes while on bail, even if they had the inclination. It is unlikely that they will vanish as fugitives from justice. This being the case, I cannot imagine why they should not be granted bail. Why is then the channel so upset on this issue? Did they not know that these students are still ‘the accused’ and it is too early for the ‘punishment