The Gentleman's Business

 “One of the greatest attractions of sport is the lack of a script and abundance of spirit”

The game which is considered as the religion in India has been struck with a major blow with the recent IPL spot fixing issue.

Referring to the present case of three Rajasthan Royal players involved in spot fixing issue. I wondered what could be the real motive behind such a shameful work. Greed seems to be an obvious one, but the possibility of duress cannot be ignored as well. With the involvement of underworld in the gambling and fixing, it would be wise to look at all the angles. I also suggest that harsh punishments should be given to the culprits. It is really odd to see that Md. Azharuddin who was convicted in match fixing is now serving as MP from Moradabad.

A news channel reported that some other players were also approached by the bookies but the players overturned their offers. On one side it felt great to know that these players are honest but on the other side it raised a certain amount of doubt towards their morality. My point is, if they knew about such dealings then why they didn’t report it? According to the International Cricket Council’s code of conduct, “players and/or team officials shall be required to report to their Captain and/or Team Manager or to a senior Board official or to the Anti Corruption and Security Unit any approach made to them by a bookmaker or any other corrupt approach or knowledge of such approach made to any other player or team official.”

While most of the cricket lovers are still enjoying the people watching their favourite batsman hitting boundaries and bowlers getting wickets. There are few activists who are working there to clean the game. Cricket was always supposed to be fun and untainted with the lights of corruption, betting, politics but now it is dominated by it. Most of the board members of BCCI belong to a political background, which is a rare case for any country and the worst part is that still BCCI is not accountable to the parliament of India.

Well the problem is not only related to India and Pakistan, “If anyone thinks Pakistan players are the only ones involved in fixing then they're kidding themselves”, Chappell wrote for Inside cricket.

ICC has made an anti corruption and security unit (ACSU) but that unit has done almost nothing and their contribution in catching the match fixing and spot fixing cases is nil. ICC spends less than 1% of the profit for ACSU unit which is very low in contrast to the International Tennis Federation (the world governing body of tennis) which spends 30 per cent of its worldwide development fund on its Tennis Integrity unit.

Having said all that it should be noted that the condition is not that worse as it seems, there are players who are giving their heart and soul to the game to win for their team for their fans which cannot be ignored. It is the time that these cricketers should step us against such malpractices.

It is true that there are some setbacks but the spirit of the game is still alive. So, it still disgusts a cricket lover, if someone says that the game was fixed.

People in Decibels

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” 

                                                                 - Mother Teresa

I always respected this thought. But c'mon we all know that we judge people and in my opinion it is necessary for deciding the further course of action. So we will go by the Oscar Wilde quote

" One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends."

So, I and my friends started judging other people in the decibel units. Below is the chart which we used for rating others

20dB - This person will be silent most of the time (may be because they are in their own world) so will not irritate you but at times turns out to be very boring.

40dB - They will talk very less but will make the whole group laugh. They love sarcasm.

60dB - They will talk and listen as much as the other party wants them to; a good company to hang out with.

80dB - This person will never talk in the group but once he is having one to one conversation, then "Oh my god" it is hard to stop him. 

100dB -They will always have a real life incident around every topic you say. 

120 dB - They will jump in all the discussion without even knowing the topic of discussion.

155 dB - They always see them at the top of the league and will explain the success of every other human being as cheating, luck or natural calamity.

180 dB - This person will go on and on and on won't even listen to you or stop till the time you faint...:)

Well I really feel that it is very bad to judge others but if I know that with what type of people I am going to deal with then I can prepare accordingly, and what is a harm in that. Also, I can ask my friends to tell me my decibel level and can improve myself.

So, have you asked your friends what is your decibel level??? :P

Capital Punishment

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apital is a Latin word & it generally indicates the cut off the head means capital portion of our body. Now most of the countries already abolished the death penalty. 97 countries all over the world has abolished death penalty forever, 36 countries did not use it since last 10 years & only 57 countries continue this process. Out of which most popular countries are India, Indonesia, republic of China, USA (5 states). 

Since 1995 only 3 people have been executed in India Ajmal Kasab 2012(Terrorist), Dhanonjoy Chatterjee 2005(Rape Case) and Auto Shankar 1995 (six murders). As per the official government statistics since independence only 52 people have been executed. However, the figure is in dispute because some other agencies claim that the number is too high. The point which I wanted to make here that capital punishment itself is barbaric law and must be thrown out of the system.  

Now coming to this case of awarding capital punishment we all know that one of the culprit who is below 18 years cannot be awarded death penalty inspite of the fact that the other culprit mentioned that most of the brutality bought on the girl was by the minor only. So the person who has performed the rarest of rare crime is already free from death penalty.  

The first point which I want to make is that I am not asking anybody to excuse the cruelty bought down by these animals on the girl. If I would have gun in my hand I might have shoot all of these criminals. But the court has to decide and take a much more evolved decision. Because the bigger question is we have to stop these rape cases. 

Capital Punishment in any case will not help in reducing the number of heinous crimes. Dhanonjoy was being hanged for the rape but did it reduce the rate of the rape case? The statistics say that the answer is clear cut NO. Doesn’t it answer the simple question that death penalty is not the solution for reducing the crime cases.

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IS CORRECT:-

1.      The supporters of the capital punishments say that this punishment will instill the fear which will prevent the occurrence of such kind of crimes further. But I think that this will only kill the sinner we want to kill the sin.

2.      The other argument is that if we will let them loose then these criminals will again pollute the society with the heinous crime. I completely agree to them but I don’t think to prevent this we require capital punishment there are other ways also.

MORAL ISSUES:-

1.      We in the so called civilized society teach value to our children that vengeance is not good. An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. Does this notion is not violated in the Capital Punishment? Believe me or not but yes Capital Punishment is nothing but a revengeful act.

2.      Another question is who suffers after the criminal is executed it is he or his family. If one really thinks that the whole family should receive the punishment then good go ahead with it but won’t it be the most inhumane thing we are doing just because we are making the laws.

3.      We have not created the life then who are we to take one’s life.

4.     I don’t know how many death sentence has anyone witnessed but those who have witnessed has said it is the most inhumane thing a person can do to other being that is why governments are trying to find some way to minimize the pain while execution.

 TECHNICAL ISSUES:-

1.      Slowly and slowly we are trying to eliminate this system but if you will again bring it back then we inevitably will be executing innocent people.

2.      We all are crying for fast track courts but once the court has to decide to go ahead with the capital punishment. Then it becomes a more critical issue and the judgment gets delayed. As a result the whole purpose of punishment is lost.

3.      Does Capital Punishment is really the proportionate punishment for the crime?

4.      Also the doctors, social workers, who normally treat the victims have filed an amicus brief to strike down the law because it doesn’t protect people but it makes it less likely that these crimes will even be reported.

One important point about the recent incident is that it has been politicized too much. Now just to gain votes by attracting people’s emotional support all the political parties are supporting them. The ruling party is not commenting anything but there acts seem to be against death penalty however the final decision has to be made by judge.Now, what I think is that a normal person cannot do this; there is really some kind of abnormality which all these people are suffering from. We should take them for a psychological study. It might helps us in knowing why they committed this sin if the root is no fear because of weak law make the law strict, if the root is no fear from the police then make police strong, If the root is related to porn movies ban them completely. My point is that we should think what should be done so that these kinds of incidents should be avoided in future. 

All the above presented views are my own and I would love to have comments from you whether against or in support.