Chak De, India! - not a movie review

Apologies, but this post will make sense only to the desi readers of this blog.

I recently watched the Shahrukh Khan starrer Chak De India. A very atypical bollywood movie, Chak De tells the story of how Shahrukh's character Kabir Khan trains a motley bunch of Indian field-hockey players to win the world championship. This group of 16 girls has never played together, and has been assembled by picking the top players from state teams. The coach's challenge is to teach his players, some of them full of individual brilliance, to play as a team. And that's not easy with egos running high, and the different cultural backgrounds of the team members. Coach Khan also has to deal with skeptical administrators and regionally biased selectors.




Shahrukh's biggest challenge perhaps is Bindiya Naik, the most experienced player in the team, but also the toughest to work with. But for team India to win, Shahrukh realizes that he needs Bindiya. Other interesting characters include Balbir, a Punjabi girl who can't control her anger, and Preeti and Komal, the two forwards who would rather miss out on scoring a goal than pass the ball to each other. Watch the movie to see how coach Khan deals with each of them.

Now, I am not into writing movie reviews on this blog. So why am I doing this? Because soon after I saw the movie, I also saw that the Indian cricket team is looking for a coach. And that made me think: this might just be the right opportunity to bring together India's two "religions", Bollywood and Cricket. Make Shahrukh the coach!

Of course, he'll have to deal with Saurav Ganguly, India's tempestuous ex-captain, who doesn't submit to authority (reminds you of Bindiya Naik?). And with cricketing genius Sachin Tendulkar, who can't seem to get the team to win however brilliantly he plays. And yes, with Sreeshant's anger, with "state quotas" for selections, with the general unwillingness to work on fielding, and many other challenges.

But Shahrukh will have one very powerful mantra for the players to deal with all the problems: Chak De, India!

What do you feel?

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Dyslexics of the world, Untie!

I am increasingly noticing that some parts of some of my emails are incoherent gibberish. I realize this when I get a reply to my email and I have a chance to look at what I wrote. So far I have been lucky that it's only 1-2 sentences in the whole email, and the message still comes through clearly in the rest of the email.

I think I know the reason why this happens. I am often multitasking. And I often go back and change some words in my email. The multi-tasking implies that I leave a mail I am composing halfway to go to another task. And then I come back to the email and change a few words that I wrote before and add some more. And I also plan to make some more changes before I switch to another task. By the time I get back to the email again, I've forgotten those changes and started on a new set. And this cycle happens a few times before I send the email out.

The end result is that I make changes that don't coherently fit the rest of the sentence or the of again making going that mistakje here nowl as you can see.

Has anyone else faced this problem?

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