MAY WHAT HAPPENED IN SYDNEY, TODAY, REMAIN IN SYDNEY
Pic.: Chetna Shetty I n one of THE DAWN CLUB debating sessions, the topic was cricket craze. A young boy blasted, without quoting George Bernard Shaw, “A famous man had said, cricket is a game played by eleven fools and watched by eleven-thousand fools.” “Whoever had said that,” thundered another young-man “was the biggest fool!” Today, like billions of ‘fools’, all over the world, I, too, stayed at home to watch the India-Australia World Cup Semifinals. Right from the first over of Indian innings, my heart was telling me, “You fool, you should have gone to work!” After the fall of seventh wicket, I switched the TV off… Ashwin, a 12 th -standard (ISC) cricket-fool had his last Board paper, today, at noon. At around 11, I saw his FB status. “Angry… Ind-Aus Semifinals… And I am supposed to write my last Accounts paper today!” In the evening Ashwin called me to say that the paper was good. “Are you still angry?” I teased him. “Not at all, si...