For the spirit of Game

YesterdayI met Dhoni at a bar. No, I am not kidding, I am serious. He looked a bit worn out and drunken too. His head was down, shoulders drooped (as the dear commentators have called " bad body language" ).I for the first time in past two days had pity for him. I went and took a seat beside him and said I, "It happens mate, it's  Ok."

He looked at me and said, " Why doesn't Hermoine understand, the series is at stake, I have no time for shopping." I was flabbergasted, I looked at the bartender who was busy cleaning glasses said,"he means Shweta, his wife."  Bartender continued, "he was invited to a special screening of Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows II, tonight". I looked at Dhoni, sympathetically and decided to leave him alone.

 "Do you know how much Dumbledore is hurt? People are questioning his 22 years of service to Hogwarts. He is my hero !!! "

 I looked at bartender again and he responded while placing bottles on the shelf, "he means Sachin."
" I understood that." and added with visible incredulity in my voice "But, Hogwarts? "
"He meant cricket", said the bartender.

"I wrote to  Voldemort..." continued Dhoni, He was mumbling a lot I tried to catch as much as possible.

 This time, Bartender looked around cautiously and then  whispered in my ears, "he means Sharad uncle"

"We will not play any IPL matches in future. Indian team as a whole will boycott next IPL, in fact, I pronounce it as dark magic and it must not be practised. It has drained us all, all of us are tired and injured," said Dhoni, loudly. But only me and the Bartender were his only audience.
"Yeah, Anyways it's not earning much,"  said I.

He had not heard me and continued," the wands losing the power, no ones able create more magic."
"What if  Voldemort doesn't listen? Will you fight him, like Harry Potter?"

He looked at me, then frowned a bit, "where is Ron? I must find him, I had him asked to get a "Bagwati" for Hermoine."

 I looked at bartender again and he said he was binge watching "Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara before Harry Potter and that's when he sent Ron to a shop I mean Raina ...no  I think it was Yuvi ..." and then added, "There were two three Rons who ran to the door, actually."

 I smiled at bartender but Dhoni was out of the door, outside the pub with his wand, oops I mean his Bat.

"I wonder what was he drinking?
"
"A cocktail mix of  'Zindagi main kuch karna hai to large chodo, kuch alag karo yaar and make it large'," and winked at me.

Whats in Name !!!

Years ago , I said "Whats in name ?"  to a friend , and he replied "everything's in a name " else we won't have known its Shakespeare who said that .  Now why I suddenly remember this is , my colleagues had formed some kind of project team  and asked me to search /suggest a name for their team ( well my colleagues found me worthy of  that only :P ) . One of them said like Transformer or Gladiator, you know Hollywood movies .  I wanted to say "what do you think of Titanic." well I didn't as they would have taken away this task too :P. I thought for a while , "Does the name of project changes anything about it".

Does name really  matter ? In quest of this question , I realised if not names "surnames" matter . Eg. "Gandhi" , If Sonia and Rahul won't have been "Gandhi" , we  would not have been interested. Infact when I was in school, I spent considerable time thinking about which relative of Mahatma Gandhi , Indira Gandhi married. Only years later , thanks to internet and emails I realised , Indira "Gandhi" had no relation  to M.K. Gandhi. "Thakeray" , if you are the one , you are suppose to say "Mi  marathi" in every second line , and you get a berth of Yuva neta in Party.  Then we have our own bollywood ruled by Kapoors, Khans and Chopras. And yeah I used to think Anil Kapoor and Rishi Kapoor are be related :D .Taking it further , based on surnames we classify people as Hindu , Muslim or Christian. We  divide them in castes , Brahmin , Kshatriya , Rajput etc.
 
You might get an oppurtunity owing to your surname ( read clout of surname)  , it might define what you would do when you grow up, It does not guarantee success. Does anyone remember "Rajendra Kapoor ?" Also none of the Kapoors are yet as legendry as the Raj Kapoor himself . Similarly , having a Gandhi surname doesn't mean one has best at his heart  for country. And therefore there are People who create their own identities like Amitabh Bachchan, Abdul Kalam ,Abraham Lincoln and Swami Vivekanand .

 Not necessarily , if you name someone Amitabh , it would apply he would be a good orator  or naming a kid Sachin will automatically make him a great player . Neither a project would doom , if  named  as "Titanic" (the movie was major blockbuster :)).Nor numerology adding extra Ks , As or any letters to any kind of work and person would change the quality of work content or a person !!!

well I did find good names for the team , few of them were inspired from Harry Potter series :) .

I guess name is what you make of it , good / bad or nothing .