Australia vs India WC 2015

After a dream run in the World Cup, India finally exited the show piece event to a well balanced Australian side at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Australia played a near perfect match and outplayed Dhoni's men with both bat and bowl. Steven Smith continued his golden form from the summer piling more agony to the Indian players, scoring a superb century of just 89 balls.
The match was sided towards Australia as soon as they won the toss. India's best chance of winning was batting first and posting  300 on the board.

The toss was crucial giving Aussies the edge

With 18 overs to play Australia were cruising at 197/1 and a score of 350 was on the cards. India pulled it back somewhat but conceded too many in the final overs owing to a cameo from Mitchell Johnson-27*(9).
India were off to a flier-thanks to Dhawan and Rohit but after the southpaw was caught of Hazlewood by Maxwell at deep cover- India didn't recover. Kohli was caught trying to pull a Johnson delivery.
By the time MS came to the crease the captain had realised he needed to stay till the end as his departure would lead to an embarrassing defeat. Captain cool played a good knock of a run-a-ball 65 on what could be his last world cup match for India. The pressure of the chase and the occasion was too much for the India batsmen.
India was never in the fight and were bundled out for 233 in the 47th over losing the match by 95 runs to the Aussies.
India were unable to beat the hosts in a gruelling four and a half months in Australia.
All said and done we must congratulate MS Dhoni for the excellent turn around in our Indian side after the drubbing in the test series and triangular series, taking 77 wickets out of a possible 80.
India played flawless cricket in the World cup and one off day in the office came in the semi finals against the best team in the competition. It is indeed difficult to beat the Aussies in their home turf but one would have expected a better fight by the defending champions.

Could be Dhoni's last World Cup match for India

The youngsters must have gathered a truck load of experience and come back from the Southern hemisphere as better players and hopefully can apply them in the coming tournaments.
The final will be a cracker between the Black Caps and Aussies but Australia seems to be the clear favourites! Hope it turns out to be a cracker of a match.
Cheers!

Tea and Bengali- a never ending love story

Tea is the preferred beverage in most households in Bengal. I am a city born boy, brought up in Kolkata, the 'City of Joy'.

Normal Tea in a clay cup

Every nook and corner of Kolkata has a tea stall. Life without it is not possible here. The speciality is the variety of tea on offer along with the clay cups on which they are served- all at an extremely cheap price- the lowest in India and arguably the best in terms of quality.
Mostly they mix black tea and oolong tea which gives the Calcutta tea its distinct flavour.
The menu has black liquor tea, milk tea(normal), aada cha(tea with ginger), lebu cha(lemon tea).


Generally the tea stalls have a variety of biscuits, cakes to offer their customers. Some stalls have an elaborate platter including toast,omelette, boiled egg even noodles and kathi rolls and obviously the 10-15 brands of cigarettes.
Tea is had at regular intervals. Starting with the morning cup. A forenoon cup followed by tea after lunch around 3pm and a cup        after office/college around evening-the busiest time.



Myself a tea connoisseur, I can tell you that after visiting a lot of places in India Calcutta simply has the best tea to offer. With lot of benefits and hardly any side effects its the beverage that it will live on in this city forever.
The endless Adda sessions at the tea stalls and the countless tea cups are something that can never be taken out off any Bengali's heart. Tea provides an inner satisfaction to all Bengalis that cant be described in words but perhaps can be felt after taking the long first sip of cha after a
hard day's work.
After all,  has any other leaf influenced history, culture, lifestyle, and civilisation so much as tea?

  

The endless adda and Cha

Seeking Happiness!

Life is what we make of it!
What we really seek throughout our lives? Money ,fame, health, peace and it varies for every soul as every star in the galaxy varies from one another.

But there is a common denominator that binds us all together!
It's the search for happiness in life! The state of Happiness we all seek before all of us face the inevitable. The death of a star is much similar to a man. The birth, the radiant youth and then the dimming to our twilight and finally succumbing to the Black Hole.

Every soul in its lifetime should live life for a few days without any help whatsoever- living in the wilderness.

Seek and you shall find!

Self sufficiency you may call it only then will one realise one's inside completely. Understanding of self is a key. Most souls unable to find it in a lifetime.

Appreciating all the small things and having the vision that all that's happening in our lives is insignificant to the universe are the stepping stones towards eternal happiness.

But there is a small twist to all this. Happiness no matter how you find it can only be felt by the human soul when shared with other souls.

Here's praying for happiness for all.