God was Murdered

1.35 billion slept happily last Sunday as India beat Australia in the Cricket World Cup. Every punk around me is dead certain that India is the favorite to win the World Cup. It’s a reasonable claim, but it’s based more on Indian team’s dazzling paper strength, very recent results [wins against SA & Oz], natural bias towards one’s country of birth & most importantly ‘genetic/cultural stupidity’.  Unlike South Africa, who’ve lost three matches on the trot, England & Australia’s one loss in three matches doesn’t change the equation much. England and Australia remain the favorites to lift the coveted Trophy on Sunday, 14 July 2019.  After doing dynamic calculations by considering a range of factors, I’ve picked my favorites: 3. India  2. England  1. Australia Reason One : Recent Form [Matches in 2019] India: 10 wins - 5 losses England:  9 wins - 3 losses - 2 no result Australia: 11 wins - 5 losses With the above stat...

If I were asked to describe India’s educated, privileged, intellectuals [pseudo & real], liberals, feminists & entitled youth in ‘two words’, it’ll have to be - Delusional Egotists.  Full Disclosure: I’m also one of the above. I’m a pseudo-intellectual, foreign-educated, relatively privileged, elder millennial. Then, why the hell I’m not a Delusional Egotist - because life has taught me that even after all my privileges & knowledge, I’m just an ordinary human whose life or death will not make the tiniest dent on the universe. Once anyone knows & survives that heartbreaking fact, it fills mind & heart with ‘detachment’ and detachment leads to striking clarity.  Let’s roll back to the hot topic. Ever since Modi-led BJP came into power in 2014 till the elections results in 2019, I’ve sat, walked, traveled, lay in bed, shared food, scotch, hash and intense conversations with all the above humans. They all truly believed all the major BJP fuck u...