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One so called, Intellectual person Manas Gupta shared his view point on India’s Cricket Lost via blogging and called emotional Indians “Thugs”.

India and Indians are very proud of having MS Dhoni as their leader in Cricket. India and Indians have made MS Dhoni, the status of Super Hero. India and Indians say very proudly that, “If Cricket is a religion than Tendulkar is God”. Indians are very emotional human being that is why they feel very dearly with every loss including myself. We also feel euphoric with every victory and disappointed with every loss. Those are the emotions of life which defines Indian and describe India.

Dhoni is an individual and is entitle to make mistake. More than Dhoni, Media needs to be blamed for creating lot of pressure. It all started with Padma Shri Awards that Dhoni was not able to receive personally. Dhoni also failed to get his much hyped Chennai Super Indians to win IPL. Dhoni’s own performance in IPL was ordinary compare to his extra ordinary abilities.

After going to England Dhoni & Team caught up with controversy surrounding Sehwag’s injury. It is not an inability of Indians to play Rising Deliveries because same kind of bowlers in lively pitches of Durban/Capetown; Raina,R.Sharma,Gambhir were able to clear the boundaries. It is one thing to hit the ball in NETS, It is other thing to HIT the bowler in Domestic Competition while It is totally different thing to play them when Billions of hopes rely on you. Every Dot ball increases the pressure and every boundary gives you a feeling such as King of the World.

Sure Dhoni needs to be blamed for missing run out Opportunity of Bravo in game against West Indies. Sure Dhoni needs to be blamed for sticking with Ishant Sharma (instead of Praveen Kumar). Sure Dhoni needs to be blamed for not using RPSingh and Zaheer Khan’s complete quota of over’s. Sure Dhoni needs to be blamed for promoting Jadeja ahead of Yuvraj. Cricket and Captainship are kind of funny and it is directly proportional to unexpected turns of Life. Sometimes similar kind of moves pays off (Joginder Sharma in last over against Pakistan) and whole country will make you Hero while sometimes they will burn effigies.

Burning Effigies just show the shear anger. Hinduism is not a Religion but way of living and believes in the rebirth and reincarnation of souls. Death is therefore not a great calamity, not an end of all, but a natural process in the existence of soul as a separate entity, by which it reassembles its resources, adjusts its course and returns again to the earth to continue its journey. In Hinduism death is a temporary cessation of physical activity, a necessary means of recycling the resources and energy and an opportunity for the jiva (that part which incarnates) to review its programs and policies.

Similar way, Burning an individual or effigies are means of giving rise to new birth to hopes, desires, dream with the game which is very close to India and Indians. Tomorrow when India will play dead rubber against South Africa, our hopes will again rise. We Indians will again step up together in favor of Dhoni and his team. (At least, I will).