The champions must retire gracefully and not disgracefully

The way the Indian ship sunk down under had been pathetic to watch. I am personally regarded as an ugly critic of the Indian cricket but that only crop up only because of their Board’s certain policies and their media who are always in the habit of over-rating. But I’m a cricket fan and above all I belong to the subcontinent and for which the India nightmarish tour didn’t impress me at all, neither the tour to England made me chummy.

India, being the world champions and with superstars in their team I and rest of the world expected a close contest both in England and Australia. And obviously the men in blue were expected to rock down under as for the last ten years or so it had been India who had stood tall and brave in front of the might of the Baggy green caps.

But sadly, it was not to be this time around. India lost the series miserably and like the English summer it had been a whitewash!

When such heavy defeats by a fine side is being gifted to the passionate fans, automatically angry reactions are bound to come. And as usual the old guards have been made the target along with the captain.

I am against keep going with the old guards and even stated my views on Facebook and twitter but that was my brain which was giving me such thoughts. But when I close my eyes I can’t bear to watch the Indian team go out there without Dravid coming out to bat with a cool and composed walk towards the crease, Laxman’s crouching stance and obviously Sachin Tendulkar’s entry which leaves the world of cricket in frenzy.

My passionate and emotional mind told me that my brain was wrong. My heart which started to weep after watching those scenes of the greats in my imaginative world started to hint me that the old guards still can go, they still can deliver for one more year as they bear the character and the zest to continue.    

No doubt the trio of Tendulkar, Dravid and Laxman are showing signs of decay. Those Midas touches are gone and those majestic abilities to essay an epic are present no more but one thing we just forget that these are the peoples who haven’t reached this stage through a rosy highway but facing through hurdles after hurdles which has developed their never-say-die attitude and it’s because of this attitude they still can deliver India the best for at least one year or so.

When to retire? How to retire? Such are the things which are always very difficult to decide for a sportsman. Every sportsman wants to retire with grace and champions like Tendulkar, Dravid and Laxman deserve a hero’s exit from the stage at which they once graced gracefully.

I feel Tendulkar, Dravid and Laxman still have another wind in their career, at least for another season and if Ricky Ponting can come out from his lean patch then it’s also possible for the trio to bounce back and serve India for another season.

I want a change in the Indian cricket team but by not axing the trio suddenly. I believe people like Tendulkar, Dravid and Laxman are sensible and dignified personalities. So, they won’t dare to fool themselves around when the time is actually up for them. Its better we leave up to them to decide when to retire and being sensible personalities they will call it a day when they feel it’s the time to say good-bye.

I want Tendulkar, Dravid and Laxman to play one more season as I feel they still have the fire in their belly and I want them to retire with grace.

The champions must not retire disgracefully.

Thank You

Faisal Caesar 

The doctors of Bangladesh don't deserve to be insulted

Dr. Shafiqul Islam, a medical officer of Chapainawanganj Adhunik Sadar Hospital is admitted at the same hospital after being critically injured.

But why he was injured? Do you want to know?

He was being beaten by a patient on the hospital’s emergency department. According to the newspaper, Daily Star, we come to know that Azizur Rahman, 40, of Masjidpara area in the town came to the hospital emergency on Saturday at about 6:30pm for treatment of diarrhoea. Dr. Shafiqul Islam suggested him to take admission at the hospital.

But the man went out of the hospital and returned a few minutes later bringing charges of laxness against Shafiqul. At one stage, he hit the doctor with an object and injured him seriously.

Angry locals and staff of the hospital caught Azizur and later the hospital authorities handed him over to Sadar police. Critically injured Dr. Shafiqul Islam, medical officer of the hospital, is now under treatment at the hospital.

Incidences like these are plenty which many people don’t know. I personally have faced some ugly patients and attendants in my short span of medical profession who wished to press me in the ground for nothing even if I was being gentle and polite.

The reason for this was their hate towards the doctors which cropped up by reading the newspapers written by our fellow journalists.

Good and bad people exist in all parts of the society but for which all people aren’t bad and doesn’t deserve the same treatment indeed. The journalists draw us in the worst possible way but they fail to realize of how much stress a doctor pass through their whole life. Still a journalist hasn’t written anything about the life of an M.B.B.S. doctor or the life of a postgraduate student who surpass through immenseness miseries.

The only one thing the journalists do is portray the bad side of a doctor.

Do we deserve this? The people who are sacrificing their own life for the sake of humanity do deserve this insult?  

Have the journalists and the people of Bangladesh who love to ditch the doctors of our country ever realize if we doctors don’t work then what will happen to them?

The whole country will stand still.

The doctors don’t like to do this and never did this or ever will do this. But there is something calls bearing the limit. If the limits crosses the doctor community might teach the so-called ‘Intellect,’ who runs for India and Singapore even when they develop constipation, of Bangladesh a lesson which they might remember for whole of their life and a lesson to those third-grade peoples who are always in the habit of treating doctors miserably.

We the doctors of Bangladesh face the toughest circumstances only save your life. We sacrifice our family and personal life for the sake of Bangladesh. Come and watch how a doctor leads their life in the rural areas of Bangladesh. Come you bloody journalists and watch how a doctor is living in a single room with his family. Come you freak people and watch how a doctor is leading their life as an HMO without payments. Come and see how a doctor forgets to organize his own life. Come and see how a doctor forgets to sleep only to make you breathe again......Come and watch it!!! 

Watch it Bangladesh! If we doctors don’t work then the heart beat of the nation will stop!

Give us respect Bangladesh. We don't deserve to be insulted. 

Thank You

Faisal Caesar 

'Bhangra' halts the 'The Beatles'

In the 90’’s I used to sleep with a big smile on my face and dreamt of the stunning victories the Pakistanis used to script during that time. Wasim, Waqar, Anwar, Mushtaq, Saqlain or Inzamam just essayed jaw-dropping stuffs to leave the world stunned and certainly those epic wins were so astonishing that they used leave a long lasting memory in the fans minds.

But after the end of that decade such wins were scanty. There had been one Multan saga way back in 2005 and since then the Pakistani cricket’s stories were full of upsetting controversies. Perhaps the magic is back again.

What I witnessed at Abu Dhabi today was similar to that Wellington Test match where chasing a total of 127 the Kiwis, with two more days left, succumbed against the pace and guile of Wasim and Waqar. That was magic and this one at Abu Dhabi is enigmatic.

England just needed 145 runs to win, a total which was suppose to be a cake walk for a team who are the number 1 Test side in the world at present. But they were left stunned by some “Bhangra” scripted by Pakistani spinners.

Suddenly, Abdur Rehman and not Ajmal arrived into the scene as the “Azrail” to ring the death bell for the English batsmen. Suddenly, Rehman started to approach towards the crease with an attacking rhythm, suddenly he started to spun the web of magic around the English batsmen, suddenly he started to vary his length, suddenly the English men started to move their feet towards the pavilion and thus an incredible spell had been scripted to essay one of the most incredible wins in Test cricket’s history.

England’s worry had been Ajmal’s mercurial spin but instead they were sunk by the most unsung spinner of world cricket, Abdur Rehma. This is what Pakistan team is all about. You just never know who will script the death of the opposition, you never who is at you at which moment of the game.   

If any team can beat the best side in the world then it’s them or if any team can blow away an opportunity from the safest of positions then it will be them. They will make you cry one day and the other day they will make you smile. They will astonish everyone with an amazing win leaving you thinking for almost a week "How did they do this?" and the other day they will commit suicide to script fatal heart attacks. They just love whims and madness but when they gel together to play cricket they are the ‘Cornered Tigers.’ 

They love to create dramas till the end. They love to thrill, amaze and excite their fans and the world. They have a cricket board whose works are never understood, they have a team who love petty quarrels, and they are always at the center of many controversies. But despite all these they play cricket in their own style and they are Pakistan, they are Pakistanis.

It’s time to cherish this victory, it’s to rejoice, and it’s time to dance as ‘Bhangra’ has beaten ‘The Beatles.’

Thank You

Faisal Caesar

Dear Parents! Don't kill your children's passion by paying heed to others

My parents got me admitted in an English medium school in the early stages of my student career. And mind you I was going well there and had coped very well with the environment of ‘Dhanmondi Tuturial School.’

But when I appeared to 5^th standard madness struck in my parents’ mind, especially in my mothers mind. People surrounding my mother’s small world started to advise her to change my school and get myself admitted in a Bengali medium school as English medium students don’t have any future in Bangladesh.

I ask, then why parents admit their children in an English medium school? They aren’t fools I guess.

Like most typical women my mother had and still has the habit of paying heed to others. She got moved by their words and started pressing me hard for an admission in a Bengali medium school. But I wasn’t agreeing with my mother’s madness as my heart always told me that I’ll finished if I change my school. I had the intention of changing my school also but it should be an English medium school. My choice was ‘Scholastica.’

In the 90’s Scholastica was a very good English medium school and I just believed that I might suit there. My mother didn’t think that. And in the February/March of 1991 I left ‘Dhanmondi Tutorial’ against my wish and got admitted in ‘Dhanmondi Govt. Boys High School’ which is a Bengali medium school.

And mind you I was at bay. Had I been in a Bengali medium school from the start then it would’ve been not a problem. But having had an English medium background for the last 6 years or so it wasn’t a joy ride for this little kid who was apprehensive to start something new with which he was totally alien.

And also, it’s always is tough to start something new in a new school with a total alien books with which I wasn’t at home, in a stage when just 4 and half years were left to complete your school.

I was at bay and never really could gain that momentum which I achieved at ‘Dhanmondi Tutorial.’ I was a better student there and after leaving that school I turned just good but to achieve that good I had to start from the beginning when already my other colleagues were thinking ahead!

None would ever realize what kind of pain and agonies I had to bear while coping up with Bengali terms and so on. I was good at Mathematics in DT but after coming to Bengali medium I became a goat in Mathematics and it remained till my HSC examination. And for this reason I chose to medical science, a profession for the studious group and not me, as my Mathematical strength of DT got dented after I changed school.

 I lost confidence and the zest for studies and till now, I remained just good  as a student.

My mother represents those parents of Bangladesh who indulge their children against their will which isn’t good at all. It’s very important to know what your children wish to do, it’s very important to realise the depth of their passion.

Children who can achieve things according to their passion then definitely they can hit the jackpot than those people whose passion strives due to their lack of interest.

I would never have been a mediocre package if I was in English medium school. At least I would have been a far better student. It’s not that I didn’t study in a better Bengali school but I just couldn’t find any interest with the complex system of the Bengali medium’s SSC or HSC where one had to memorize like a cow by sacrificing creativity. I just didn’t get used with it and I suffered, my dreams suffered and my heart remained upset.

Please don’t press your children this way and make them suffer deep inside. Respect their passion. Try to understand what they wish to be. And please don’t hear what others say but watch and understand your children’s wish. It’s you who have given birth to your children and not the others. Your children are yours and not others property.

Don’t hear the morons.

Thank You

Faisal Caesar

  

If I can do it then why not you?

The packet you see in the picture above is a packet full of medicines which are needed for general purposes to treat a patient. This packet will be gifted to Joynal Abedin’s Mymensingh’s ‘Mamtaz Hospital.’ I requested two pharmaceutical companies,Beximco and Incepta, to come forward and help Joynal Abedin’s hospital with medications. Beximco responded today and Inshallah Incepta too will come forward.

Joynal Abedin is a hero and for which he demands respect and also help from all corners of our society, especially the rich. I’m a simple guy and not rich but wished to help him according to my abilities. I have lent my helping hand for his hospital via Pharmaceutical companies.

If I can do it why not you?

Thank You

Faisal Caesar

Legendary speech of a poor student from Bangladesh

This girl simply brought tears in my eyes. Yes what she said is absolutely true. Yes there are many rich people in Bangladesh who has plenty for them but by not wasting them in mundane luxury let's spend some for the welfare of this talents and eager to learn students from Bangladesh. Talents don't come more often from the mundane luxury of the riches but it mostly crops up from the poor and middle-class society. Simply heart touching lines those and 100% facts.

Thank You

Faisal Caesar

Joynal Abedin - A hero from Bangladesh

A person blessed with enormous courage and will-power should be our role models. For you and me, such personalities mostly exist in abroad. But mind you, in Bangladesh such personalities also exist. We simply lack the eye to recognize them. 

They are neither the elites nor the so-called Sushil Somaj who simply exist on controversial remarks. They represent the low socioeconomic class of Bangladesh and rickshaw puller Joynal Abedin  is one of them.

What is so special about this rickshaw puller who pulls rickshaw in the capital of Bangladesh 6 nights a month to earn his livelihood? Surely, the 55-year old man has something unique qualities which have made him one of my favourite personalities from this country. His story is an inspiring one.

Joynal Abedin watched his father die pathetically without receiving proper treatment due to financial problems. His father’s death made Joynal to think about building a charitable hospital to serve those who are unable to receive proper treatment. Many poor people in Bangladesh accept such death as a regular event. But Joynal decided to change things around. He became determined to fulfill his dreams. 

After Joynal’s father's death, he and his wife moved to Dhaka to earn their livelihood. He started to live at Shahjahanpur Rail Colony and his hardships mounted in course of time. Then a rickshaw owner named Mosharraf, being touched heavily by the pangs and agonies of Joynal, came forward to help him. He gave Joynal 50 taka and also taught him how to pull a rickshaw.

The struggle of Joynal starts!

He pulled rickshaw for the whole day and night for around 14 years while his wife Lal Banu managed a job at a clinic. Joynal used to share his dreams with his wife who have been best friend during his bad times.

He saved money from his daily income and tried to open a bank account. But sadly our so called well educated people ignored Joynal. Lady luck sent Sonali Bank’s manager Saleha Akhter to help Joynal to open a bank account.

Twenty years later their savings had reached to 2 lacs 84 thousand taka and they returned to their village bought 23 decimals of land and constructed a house to live with their two children and opened a four-bed hospital with the rest of the money. The name of the hospital was "Momtaz Hospital".

According to Daily Star, "Momtaz Hospital soon drew the attention of the villagers and people far beyond. On an average, the hospital offers first aid to around 25 patients a day while handing out pain killers, oral saline, paracetamol, metronidazole, antacid and de-Wormers.

Alongside the hospital, Joynal has also started a free coaching centre and a Maktab (Arabic learning centre) for poor primary school-goers. Around 50 children regularly receive tuition here.

He pays each of the two teachers - Md Aiyub and Khalilur Rahman of the coaching Tk 3,500 a month".

Joynal's determination is a lesson for us all. If you are determined to chase your dreams, then adversities can be conquered. Fortune always favours the brave.

Surely, there exist quite a few Joynal Abedin's in our country. But our media is so busy in focusing on good-for-nothing fellows and useless issues that such true heroes get overshadowed. Bangladesh need such people more to inspire the young generation and enlighten the society.

People like Joynal Abedin should be our role model.

He is a hero. 

Thank You

Faisal Caesar

Why care for someone who doesn't even care your emotions?

I find this as a wasting of energy by exhibiting love towards them who doesn't even pay the love back as much as I do. I find many doing this years after years with a hope that at any point of time the emotionally pursuing person might give the love back as by the grace of God he or she might realize my love.

Hello! Life is not like a romantic Hindi film which always gives us the unrealistic thoughts about our emotions.

We don't even know how much energy we waste while keep throwing ourselves after people who communicate in one way or another that they don't have anything to give to us. An emotionally unavailable person show up in various ways. They might be our lover, our parents or our friends.

These emotionally blunt people express their unavailability in various ways. At times they are caring you while at times they don't even realise that you ever existed and sadly you just waste your energy in getting their attention.

Well I suggest to fuck them off. Why the hell wait for someone who doesn't care for you? Why get blind and not watch for those who actually has the emotion stored for your each actions.

Let them go man! Don't get trapped in an blunt-energetic-black-hole. Life is waiting to hug you.

Thank You
Faisal Caesar

Australia v India - Virat Kohli must correct his behaviour

In the subcontinent cricketers are the role models for every youngster. In this part of the world, youngsters try to emulate them whatever they do.  So, bearing this in mind, a celebrity must be very careful regarding their attitude as any wrong doings or a wrong gesture might affect the young generation badly as because it might infect a young kid like a virus.

Virat Kohli gave a bad gesture towards the hostile Sydney crowd in the second Test against Australia, which was quite unexpected from a player who is all set to become one of India’s greatest ever cricketing icons. We all know how harsh the Australian crowd could be as they always love to get under the skins of the touring teams. In a sense the best way to answer them is through authoritative performances.

I don’t see any point of doing such as because it dents your reputation as a cricket and, also such behaviours are a poor advertisement of your own country. Cricketing greats like Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman and Sachin Tedulkar have toured downunder many times, but they were never seen to exhibit such an ugly gesture despite digesting various harsh behaviours from the Australian crowd. They answered through their bat and earned respect from the harshest of critics and fans downunder. And for which, those players are termed not only as the finest cricketers ever, but great ambassadors of their country as well.

Virat Kohli has been fined 50 percent of his match fees, but this doesn’t solve the problem.  Being aggressive on the field is not similar to exhibiting some ugly gesture. Being aggressive on the field is sheer professionalism while exhibiting an ugly behaviour is an indication of the frustrated side of one’s character and his lack of ability to stay calm when the going gets tough.

Ugly  behaviours will only script unnecessary controversies and hit the headlines for nothing. Rather, it’s wise to add composure in your character and become a consistent performer with the bat.

A batsman like Virat Kohli is an asset not only for India, but for world cricket as well. So, he must correct his behaviour and become a sensible ambassador for his country. Being a fan of Kohli, I certainly want him propser in life rather than becoming a headline for all the wrong reasons.

Thank You

Faisal Caesar

Shakib Al Hasan - The shining star in a dull year for Bangladesh

Very few can stamp an authority in this topsy-turvy world of cricket despite representing one of the weakest teams in world cricket. One needs to be super-confident and possess special qualities. One needs to be very, very special to be the number one allrounder in the world despite representing a team like Bangladesh. The boy from Magura, Shakib Al Hasan did this in the year of 2011, and which is an eye-pooping achievement.

At the beginning, the year 2011 had been bitter for Shakib. As a captain he wasn’t able to fulfill the aspirations of 16 billion Bangladeshi, and then he was in a rut with the Bangladesh Cricket Board’s officials which ultimately led him to lose his captaincy.  Shakib’s world was basseted with chaos and controversy.

But, he is Shakib Al Hasan and he has the qualities of a champion who brushes away all the frustrations in no time and bounce back in style. Shakib Al Hasan came back with stellar performance to make this year all his own.

This year, Shakib has scored 564 runs at an average of 33.18 and in five Test matches he scored 451 runs at an average of 50.11. With the ball he was teasing, sharp and has been a genuine wick taker. In the third ODI against the West Indies, he was instrumental in nailing them for a poultry total. In the Test matches he kept his sharpness intact as both against West Indies and Pakistan he was clinical with the ball.

In five Test matches Shakib grabbed 21 wickets at an average of 28.61 with a strike rate of 61.8 and the economy rate being 2.77 while in the ODIs he grabbed 25 wickets from 25 ODIs at an average of 28.08 with the strike rate being 38.8 at an economy rate of 4.33.

Shakib also has been a part of a record this year. His staggering 144 against Pakistan and the 6-wicket haul against the same opposition is the ninth incidence in the history of Test cricket. As an allrounder, Shakib’s such feat is the seventh in the history of Test cricket and in the subcontinent it has been the second incident. Imran Khan was the first person from the subcontinent to make this unique feat against India at Faisalabad in 1982-83.

In a team where the others are struggling find their best nick, Shakib was way ahead of his team-mates. He is never mentally cluttered like his team’s batsmen nor finds it tough with the ball against the best batsmen. He continued to deliver the best for Bangladesh last year and remained the only shining star for Bangladesh in a dull year.

Thank You

Faisal Caesar

Misbah-ul-Haq - Pakistan's stabilizing factor

 

2011 had been a productive year for Pakistan. The way they performed throughout the year it seemed that they had not been affected badly by the controversies of the previous  year. It was a Pakistan team which played as a unit.

They have won 24 ODIs this year with just seven losses and haven’t lost a Test series this year. Certainly a result to relish, but this has been possible because of stable unit and which was scripted by a man whose innocent face and laid back personality always hide the flash of knowledge he bears in his big skull.   

Misbah-ul-Haq has been able to gain respect from a side that are perennially fractious. When made captain in 2010, Misbah gained the only support from Jeff Lawason, who once was the coach of Pakistan; but other than Lawson, none gave him a chance as a player, let alone as a captain.

Time passed, series after series came along and the unflappable temperament of Misbah-ul-Haq started to shine as brightly as ever. His year started with a Test series win over New Zealand and since then he never looked back. The series in the Caribbean was drawn, Zimbabwe was being outclassed, Sri Lanka were nailed and Bangladesh found no answer to a Pakistani juggernaut.

It was way back in 1996 that Pakistan didn’t lose a Test series and after 15 long years the men in green are relishing such an astonishing year. That Pakistan of 1996 were world beaters with world-class performers and this Pakistan team is nowhere near that team of 1996.

There is no Wasim, Waqar, Anwar, Ijaz, Saqlain or Mushtaq in Misbah’s team, but it has players who responded to the call of their captain, players who wanted to give their all for the sake of the country and for which Pakistan could essay such a staggering year. The players were transformed from a procession of soloists into an orchestra by a leader, named Misbah-ul-Haq.

Spot-fixing saga had plagued Pakistan cricket and it was wandering in a dark cave.The  Pakistan cricket team needed a torchbearer to them show the way to come out of that dark cave. Misbah-ul-Haq has been that torchbearer for Pakistan this year. He talks less and believes in action and it was evident throughout the year.

While Shahid Afridi and Waqar Younis were pillow fighting, Misbah remained focused on each series that came along. Captaincy didn’t add extra pressure in him, but it has galvanized his own form as this year in Test cricket, Misbah notched up 765 runs at an average of 69.54.

Afridi’s tussle with the PCB led him to lose his captaincy and then Misbah was made the ODI captain and in that sector his record has been simply astonishing this year, with 13 wins from 14 ODIs as captain.

Shahid Afridi dazzled with his bowling and his antics, Hafeez was in top touch throughout the year, while Saeed Ajmal was simply magical this year, but they just are unable to match Misbah’s responsibility of leading a side who are the toughest side to lead in world cricket. 

The fresh air that blows from the majestic mountains of Pakistan has entered into the Pakistan dressing room. The youngsters now have a faithful hand on their shoulders. There are no filthy politics or any petty quarrels in the Pakistan team, but they are a united team singing the song of unity to dazzle in 2012 as because they now realize what playing as a unit means. A realization installed by captain Misbah-ul-Haq. Undoubtedly, he is the player of 2011 for Pakistan.

 Thank You

 Faisal Caesar