Archive for April 2010
Say No to Plastic
Posted on: April 28, 2010
Few days back some students of IIIT – Hyderabad started a commendable campaign of making college a No-Plastic zone. Under this initiative, 10 students picked up 848 plastic bottles in an hour.
I will let these pictures tell you the rest of the story …
Apart from the great awareness showed by those handful of IIIT students, these pictures also tell the negligence of other people towards making IIIT a plastic free zone. The only moto behind hanging those bottles out in the campus was to make people aware of their wrong doings. Its a pity that even after keeping the trash bins at regular intervals, we still do not feel like stretching ourselves upto the trash bins. Won’t this world be a better place to live, if everybody (Not just IIITians) considers it as a responsibility and either stops using those bottles or in worst case at least disposes them to the trash bins. Come on you literate/educated people…do it!
Besides this wonderful “Say no to plastic” campaign i would also like to mention about “Suraksha” as well, where in few students started a cloth donation campaign within the college. Its very good to see such good things in the college getting a push.
Following was the contribution:
Shirts/Tshirts – 2000
Jeans/Trousers – 1000
Suits – 500
Footwears – 100
Other Material – Bags Bed Sheets Stationery etc.
more on it @ Suman’s post.
Also, not to forget the jute bag campaign by the IIIT students: where in students can ask for (or buy) jute bags while they go for shopping and can return back once they are done with it (in case they have not bought it :) ). More on the jute bag campaign at : Suman’s post.
Congratulations to “Say no to plastic” and “Suraksha” team. Kudos to you people, you rock. This post is just a small help that i offer by spreading the word.
What makes the distinction between a great player and a legend?
Both set of players are enormously talented and have the ability to upturn the face of the game at any time. The distinction probably is that extra bit that legends posses and others don’t. The difference between say, Sourav Ganguly (@Dada fans: Don’t raise eyebrows) and SRT, between Nadal and Federer, or perhaps the most obvious one – between Christiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. Its not that SG , RN and CR ain’t great players, they definitely are, they have proven it time and again, but there is something .. something inexplicable, not possessed by them which keeps these players apart from the league of the Legends.
Lionel Messi
Perhaps, Legends deliver extraordinary performance when needed that others cant do. Who can forget sachin’s two back-to-back stormy hundreds against the Kangaroos at Sharjah that Single handedly won us the trophy or the recent 200 against RSA. But then Laxman’s 287 against Australia too was memorable. He may be a great player but he certainly ain’t a legend. Its something more than those memorable performances that makes a sports-person a legend. Is it the Consistency? But then, even Christiano Ronaldo is as consistent as Messi and he too (i believe) is not a legend. Though, Messi is too young to be called a legend, but he definitely is in the making of being one. Perhaps, besides the impeccable performance it is the on field and off field behavior that make them legendary. But then Wood’s off-screen debacles mean he probably is not a legend! you bet, ask golf fans and they would dis-agree.
SRT!
Why do we still find SRT’s smile child-like? Why does Lionel messi look adorable and you feel anguish for his equally talented counterpart Christiano Ronaldo. Ravi teja had a very valid point few days back .. Messi is child-like while Ronaldo is childish! Its not easy to stay humble when you know that you are ruling the game, only legends do that!
Roger Federer
The distinction is subtle and i think it can’t be put forth in words, its something you can feel, you can sense. Great players are those who are liked by the fans, Legends are those who are prayed! Like Gods.
P.S.
- Finally a post after a very longgg time, almost an year! Messi made me write this blog!
- Third consecutive post on sports, not good not good. Next one will be from other some other department for sure!
- Special Mention:
Lionel Messi – 6th April 2010 Barcelona V/s Arsenal Champions League. That man alone toyed with the arsenal defenders and made them look like headless buffaloes wandering on the football field. Typically, an arsenal defeat would hurt me, but somehow Messi’s godliness at Camp Nou made the loss sweeter.
A step towards Destiny 
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