India won Cricket WC, or smth

 So apparently we won the T20 world cup, not that I care about it much but people in real life and online won't let me have blissful ignorance. I did see some news of early outs in the lower banner yesterday and thought that once again we are losing, but somehow we did win. 

Now, by Twitter timeline is 70% cricket! And I am the man unaware of the match till the toss itself. Not knowing and watching about seems to be some kind of Taboo. Look, my only connection with cricket is that I am from Ranchi so is Dhoni. (Not if my friend on Reddit is to be believed:

Have you guys ever seen someone from Jharkhand? Have you ever been to Jharkhand or know a person who has been to Jharkhand? Yeah, I didn't think so.

Jharkhand is a conspiracy created by cricketer M.S Dhoni in order to hide the fact that he is a Pakistani. He saw the state of Pakistani cricket and really wanted to play in the IPL, but could not because he was from Pakistan. So at the age of 17 his parents smuggled him inside a carton of heroin attached to a drone flying over the border. He was dropped in Uttar Pradesh where he met his friend Shoab Malik, Sania Mirza's husband who he married for whatever the Indian equivalent of a green card is. Shoab Malik dropped him off at the cricket ground where recruitment was happening without realising that Dhoni was high due to smelling the Heroin fumes.

Dhoni when reporting to the recruiters was asked where he was from and his brain panicked. His hands started sweating and his legs started feeling weak because he had forgotten his cover story, which was that he is a guy called Sachin Tendulkar from Maharashtra. On the spot he managed to make up a story about his life and told the recruiters that he was from Jharkhand. The recruiters, who were from South India, thought that it must just be another one of those North Indian states and thought it was normal. He played well and with the help of the rat controlling him under his cap (the rat was the spirit of Kapil Dev, who died earlier and is currently a clone, that is a different story I will tell later) won easily and got selected. However he felt bad that he was unable to use his Sachin Tendulkar cover and gave it to his Bangladeshi friend, who also joined him in a career of professional cricket.

And that is the story of Jharkhand. Don't belive me? Tell me another thing from Jharkhand. Can only think of Dhoni? Yeah, I though so. Don't let the deep state lie to you anymore. Jharkhand is fake, it's simply not real.

 

source: https://www.reddit.com/r/DesiCopypasta/comments/rqglsx/jharkhand_doesnt_exist

 ) And so I am seen as a CSK fan. Not just seen as, I am low-key forced into being one:

डरअसल जो हम है हि नहीं, आप वैसे हि देखें जा रहें हैं

अगर जाम-ए-माया संभलति नहीं , टो क्यों चढाऐं जा रहें हैं

I don't mind the friendly banter, rather I enjoyed it and even felt a bit down when CSK was out, but still, it makes no sense that I need to know about cricket. This is no isolated incident but a systematic feature of the country, according to Pew, a majority of the country feels one must support (and I assume know) the Indian cricket team to be considered an Indian.  This is not a serious country dammit. 

Anyway, the old age saying that India runs on cricket, Bollywood and politics is still true- and I am clean-bowled on two of these! 

On Writing Everyday II

 Write something worth a damn. Write something that requires you to tear a chunk of your soul away and leave it dripping, bloody, on the page. For my amusement, or your amusement, or her’s. Put something of yourself into the process. Get some skin in the game. If you don’t, you might as well be writing press releases. Life is too short, and the opportunity afforded us by this marvelous community and platform is too good to squander it on typological masturbation. Fuck me with your stories. Please.

- Gary Rogers's "Write Something Worth a Damn"

Just yesterday I wrote a piece on writing everyday, and I write on the same topic today too. Unoriginal and uninspired sure, but at least I am writing on consecutive days - A first on the blog. I did say that "I will be looking at Writing Prompts now" but because the laziness, I didn't. At the very least laziness did not stop me from writing this very boring blogpost. It could have been worse, all the self-hate of yesterday might have drawn down in procrastination. 

Anyway, it seems that faith of this blog is to be a very loosely kept diary ( I have tried keeping diary before, never lasted more than a week.) But that will be an improvement over it being nothing. Unlike yesterday I keep no bitterness writing this piece despite it being even more lame than yesterday, a good thing? Might it be "करत-करत अभ्यास के जडमति होत सुजान । रसरी आवत-जात ते सिल पर परत निशान ॥" in action? If yes, then ts surely a good thing. On other hand I have now tried reading more and more blogposts. I liked 'High-Speed Rail in India' and 'Why I Keep a Research Blog' today. Adding the links here with barely any readership on an unindexed website will not do any good to these already popular blogs, but I guess it will be easier for me to find them again and perhaps one day even write a post inspired by them! 

On writing everyday

 If you are looking to build a habit, then what you write isnt as important as just writing. Some of the hardest part is just sitting down to write and letting the words flow. This advice is just for that part. Once you actually start writing, then you make improvements. But just like you cant edit with whats not there, you cany get better at something you cant do!

-/u/SuperSailorSaturn 

 When I announced the purpose of the blog, I hoped to have written semi-frequently on the blog, maybe twice a month. But in almost half a year I have written but a single short post. And it is not the deep ramblings I had assumed but just a short voting experience in this election. I still strive to write every day, ever since I read this blog. 

I don't know the point of this blogpost itself, is this self-torture? Somehow there have been readers from Hong Kong, I don't know what they find in the 3 posts I have written here. But they have read, and I have not written more. I need to write. This makes no sense from a "flow" POV. Sentences are disjoint I, can't write no good. Even Tao says to write down even new maths. But I can't. 

I find solace in the quote at the top, it is the beginning that is most difficult. I sometimes begin to write, only to be bogged down in research. I find those moments very enjoyable if you remove the pressure of writing, but they take enough time that nothing ever gets written (or I learn how I don't know much on the topic, and my inability to honestly write so). But sometime back I forgot the research I did, I want to make those giddy moments permanent in my writing and help others by offering what I discovered in an easy consolidated form. Sadly it never comes through. 


I will be looking at Writing Prompts now, let's see if that cures anything. Not hopeful at all though. Not hopeful.