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Cricket India Dream Team

Amidst all the intellectual comments made by our professional politicians who are paid to progress the economy of our country by driving a few poor illiterate Indian youths to smear cowdung on posters of cricketers, and burn effigies (pun intended); I've decided to form a dream team with tremendous vision and abundance of passion to reach the Finals of the Cricket Word Cup 2007 quite comfortably. And, who better than the politicians, bureaucrats and past BCCI bastards of India can hold a straight bat, dive to save runs, bowl a googly, and face 150Kmph beamers! So, here is my Dream Team....Ooooh AAAh India! Somnath Chatterjee ( Speaker of the Parliament of India ) - Captain cum Opener a.k.a The Waaaaaaalllll Laloo Prasad Yadav ( Union Minister for Indian Railways ) - Vice-Captain & Opener aka Amar Singh ( Crook No.1 ) - Point fielder & Genuine 1-down batsman Ram Vilas Paswan ( Youth Instigator No.1 ) - Slip fielder whom you can always rely on Gurudas Dasgupta ( Commu

Happiest day in my photography life!

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Wow, this has to be the most satisfying day in my short career in photography. And all the applauds go to my favorite camera, the Canon Powershot IXUS S330 and a hundred claps to Flickr . I love the new feature introduced in Flickr called the Camera Finder . A dozen images of mine feature in the Interesting Macro Canon PowerShot S330 section. Thanks buddy, you just made my day!

You were the BEST and deserve some REST!

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Nike Commando Series Originally uploaded by McGun . Spotted your profile on Rediff.com's shopping portal, you were being sold for a Thousand bucks (1000 INR) under the finest brand name - Nike ! Along with you came a FREE Nike Travel bag. I was desperate to get a good protector for my feet. I was dead sure I wanted you, and used my HDFC Netbanking facility for the very first time to seal my 1st purchase on the InterNet. And boy, what a find you were! U were delivered double-sealed with Rediff's logo as an assurance on the 18th Oct, 2003 . On unpacking you, I was taken back by the looks and design. U looked different from what I saw on the Net, but you looked unique. I was disappointed that day wondering if I made the right decision. I sat the whole night thinking of the stupid remarks you and me would get for such a funny looking combination! There was a saying that a person is judged by the way he dresses, communicates, looks & the SHOE he wears ! I took you as a new