Statistical Significance and Managerial Significance of Sehwag's selection.

Vengsarkar:- "Sehwag was selected because Dravid insisted on picking him up".

Dravid:- "Sehwag is going through a lean patch and we have to back him up as he has raw power and the hunger to go against all kind of attack so I have picked Sehwag hoping that he chose this time to get back into form".

The statistics has a different story to say. In last few matches Sehwag reached above forty only once. Got out every time flashing his bat outside the offstump or by showing off an over ambitious shot. The statistics by all way indicates Sehwag is on a slide and a scenario analysis with Mcgrath or even with bowlers like Chaminda Vas will tell you that he is not going to reach even 30's before he will be out from team forever. The statistical significance is that Sehwag should not be picked and may be batsmen like Badrinath, Dhawan or for that sake Mongia should be given a chance.

But then the real life has many unpredictable variables and a simulation study can tell that if Sehwag scores a blitzkrieg 50 odd runs, the chances of India winning the match increases by let say 30%. As a statistician people can ignore this but then as a manager when Rahul Dravid has to decide his team he has to consider all the options available with him and then take the decision. We cant doubt his abilities as a captain based on some statistics because the writing on the wall is that " What is statistically significant may not be a significant information for a manager and what is significant for a manager may not be statistically significant".

The picture on the wall is not of Hasan Ali.

Ed officials are unable to get a single picture of Hasan Ali till now. Now, people are saying that Hasan Ali was a popular name in the Pune party circle and was very much into racing. Though nobody ever came close to this knowledge about 35000 crores being safely parked into his bank accounts but still he was popular among the who's who. Now I guess that even when people are telling the IT officials that "you see the picture on the wall, the man standing on the right side is Mr. Hasan Ali" they are shrugging the allegations off by saying that hush how come you say that? He is not a simple man, he is a 35000 crore man. Well! may be they will only recognize him after he pays them for doing that.

Have also heard that they walked into his Hyderabad house where his first wife told them that she doesn't have a photograph either. Lagey raho IT and ED department. You guyz are great.

The 35000 crore man went missing..

Well, as predicted first the man went missing and then after someday the money will also go missing. Poor IT officers, they have to run from pillar to post for all the money which is lying into swiss bank accounts and into real asset property. By the time they will freeze the account the money will be wired to some other accounts. This always happens in India and we are reminded of those movies where police always use to come honking long after the crime occurred.

THE NAMESAKE " another one from Mira Nair.

Based on the novel The Namesake by author Jhuma Lahiri, Mira Nair is releasing her new movie in US this weekend. Well, I didn't like the novel much and would rate it as a "NOT so Boring" novel on a "Boring" train journey. But then the movie promises much. The presence of Irfan Khan is itself sufficient who when given his own freedom can turn any performance as if you are hearing that same character verbatim.

Kal Penn is another name which is though not too much famous but I have watched his two movies "American Desi" and "Harold and Kumar going to white castle". He looks like an American born confused desi and he acts like one. He is simply awesome in funny characters. So it's worth watching how he fared in rather serious and demanding role.

Tabu plays Ashima in the movie and I have no doubt in her capabilities as a brilliant screen performer. She will definitely add some value to the character of Ashima ganguly who in the original novel reluctantly accepted the American culture and just keep craving for Indian. The movie will be an interesting watch for someone who still have passion for theatre art. I will watch it for Irfan Khan. He fits well in those characters which involves a lot of talking. let's see how he fares here.

Digging around.

We are moving to internet 2.0 and what does that mean? Well, that means that we are now moving into the world of user generated content and the early signs are visible with the emergence of Picasa, Digg, Flickr and wikipedia. Out of all this Digg is making waves among the online community. I was also digging for something and actually got one of my favorite's music video by Vitamin C.

watch the video GRADUATION (FRIENDS FOREVER)

India in Pictures..

The best slide show on India.. Take a look. Everybody show naked sadhus, half naked kids as a representative of India. Some enthusiast photographers have tried to capture the vibrant colours of India in picture. Go straightaway.

The image on the right is from Barapni , Upian Lake in Meghalaya.

Chidambaram's plan to use the money nabbed from Hasan Ali..

Action Plan

1. Take the money from him and use it to give more subsidies to dog food and for that vet department. (The healthier and the more the dogs, more the dob bites, more the need for anti rabies shots). See, the system's approach to problem solving.
2. 33000 crore that means he is in 30% slab. So 9900 crore. Well that's tempting (even bigger than fodder scam) but well where I will be able to hide that? No! but then he mentioned that he has a diary with all the other names okay so let those names come out and then I will decide how to distribute the money. (some will be needed to pass over to the media also to do the coverup act)
3. I am forgetting about the Unani, Siddha, Naturopathy department. Will increase their grant. If common public don't know about this department then atleast these fatso leaders will need that to keep their pot bellies clean.
4. And last but not the least, we all can use a little of that money to modernize the toilet compound of the parliament. Even locals are complaining about the foul smell. Though some of our MPS don't mind using the sulabh sauchalya outside but still modernizing toilets is all the more important.

Contingency:- What the hell I am thinking about, who the hell cares for the country and the economy and for that matter who the hell cares for Aam Aadmi. Let them go to hell, I will ask this man, what can he do for me, I guess he knows more than me on hawala and swiss bank.

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The fourth richest Indian - Poor guy.

Richest because Income Tax people are claiming that the person has about $ 8 billion worth of assets.

Poor because he was not given any credit by any form of media till now. I don't know its a system failure or a media failure. But anyways dear Hasan Ali now you are all set to become Indian media's eye candy (that too without hiring a publicity agent or without considerable media spending). So get ready for all the light camera and action. And yeah, don't worry about the IT people yaar. Give them 3000 crores and they will be more than happy to pass a part of this money on to big dogs (in form of dog food subsidies of-course), you will still be left with more than 30000 crores which will be enough for you and your horses.

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Mom! how many times you will get married?

The little kid in the picture is Damien (Liz Hurley's son) who is looking half puzzled probably mesmerized by the exotic India. The six day long (marthon) second leg of the wedding of her mom will leave him with enough memories to grow old with (at-least he will get a new set of father, grand parents, aunts, auncles and extended family). Well, out of all things I guess one thing this poor kid must be wondering about that how many times his mother will get married? Anyways kid you are one of the lucky ones so enjoy all the parties.

The diving spirit..

With so many senior players around in the Indian team, the fielding standards are bound to be hit. So no wonder if we find Uthappa, Kartik and others fielding for senior players like Ganguly, Sehwag and Kumble. I have heard rumours that these seniors players are conditioning themselves to the international standards but I wonder that how they define standards.

While all the players were having a pool side party suddenly Kumble rose up and dived in the pool. Before people can think of something they saw that a cricket ball came rolling by and then stopped near the edge of the pool. Kumble came out shaking his head and said, bloody! I have been practicing this so long and again?.

You see, people are bound to fail when they try to do something extra. Get your basics right men in blue or you will soon be in Blue.