Drama around Democracy

Yesterday I was reading an article, at rediff.com, on the Myanmar crisis. US has come up with sanctions against Myanmar officials and have 'urged' India and China to help the pro-democracy sections of Myanmar.
This reminds me of another piece of new from fews back, another situation but entirely different reaction/views from US. The incidence I'm referring to is the Lal Masjid standoff in Pakistan. The statment from US was : Lal Masjid action is an 'internal matter' of Pakistan.
US, who have appointed itself the sole defender of democracy throughout the world, is very conveniently ignoring the non-existence of democracy in Pakistan since 1999 (because Pakistan is a 'Key Alley in their, self declared, war against terrorism).
What ever is happening in Pakistan is a mockery of democracy. Rule and being bent, laws amended and Musharraf has not left a single stone unturned to ensure prolonging his presidency. I'm sure he's getting all the help he needs, from USA and he will manage to cling on to power this time as well.
I still hope US will realize that they are putting money on the wrong horse, but it then we can only wait and watch the drama.
Speaking of drama....around all of this news and happenings, Mr. Nawaz Shareef managaed to make a very brief trip to Pakistan, which can easily be described in 3 sentences:
He Came....He waved...He went (was sent) back.

Eklavya -The Royal Guard...Cornered.

My first post was about cricket, the second one had to be about movies. There is lot of hue and cry over the selection of Eklavya for India's official Oscar entry. I'm not exactly a fan of this movie but what amuses me are the comments, from people inside the film fraternity, about this movie.
Few days back Farah Khan said that she found Eklavya a boring film and its a bad choice for Oscar entry. I think it had more to do with the rejection of her good friend SRKs Chak De than the selection of Eklavya. Last year when Mr. SRK's paheli was chosen (over Black...special round of applause for the selection committee), I suppose she thought it was a perfect and just choice.
I'm not saying Eklavya is the best choice, there must be quite a few regional movies which were way better than the ones considered, but now that they have chosen a movie people should one stop cribbing and criticizing the decision as it is not going to change anything.
May be this movie will achieve what a Mother India or a Lagan could not...well there is nothing wrong in dreaming...dreams do come true..after all India won the T20 world cup.

Dream come true...

For my first blog post I had to choose between my two passions....cricket or movies...I'm going with the first one today keeping in mind India's historic victory in the T20 WC.
What can I say, its like a dream to me...few months back India (and Pakistan) was out of the first round of WC and now the same teams are playing in the T20 final and what a match it was.
The feeling, that India has won the WC, is still to sink in but I must mention that more than India winning the cup it was Pakistan losing it. Misbah played so well against India, it reminded me of Klusner's innings again Aus in the WC semifinal. But as they cricket is a game of luck and luck favours the brave. India played like champions (a new brand of "fearless" cricket as media likes to put nowadays), and after their WC disaster I think they deserved this victory.
But the real test is yet to come when India plays against Australia who be coming here with only revenge on their mind.
A series win against Aussies maybe too far fetched but the heart says...for these bunch of young and talented cricketers no challenge is big enough.