Tuesday, July 13, 2010

What if paul comes to India


With reference to the article "Paulitics" published on July 13 in Times of India


Psychic Paul’s predictions are mere contingencies. I mean we can’t be certain how the fall of events might take place just by asking a 8 legged creature who is rather regardless of what we want and how our world works. Even for once if we believe that he posses precognitive powers and psychic abilities to produce accurate & acute vaticinations, still it can be a stroke of good luck or a fluke but now the question arises, which is bound to be absurd "Can it be a fluke every time? " as the way it has been in this World Cup. Rationalists like me have an answer for this as well, “probability”. For him his prophecies might be meaningless but for the outside world it has a elephantine impact. If his predictions brings good news for one, we shouldn't forget it brings a bad news(omens) for other too and which can certainly make the other feel grumpy and we can expect him to behave cantankerously. Nonetheless, its silly that if one is able to predict the result of a game before hand then its consequence will once be that its pointless playing the entire game, instead we should hand over the trophy, like that only, just like one of our advertisement says “Parle 20-20 khao short me niptao”. I wonder how blunderingly we Indians will act if Paul the soothsayer, makes his trip to India for IPL, Shahrukh khan will be eagerly waiting to cut him for his new delicacy and will act vindictively if his team loses again (a hapless state for him).His prophecies will impoverish our very dear ‘babas’ working on national news channels in the morning session selling stones and predicting the route of ‘rahu’ and ‘ketu’, and Bejan daruwala will be left high and dry if Bollywood also jostles its head into this running amok to find what is in future.



1 comment:

  1. if Maha Pandit..Baba Paul comes to india..he will definitely take d positon of d our very dear "babas" as u mentioned..but wht i feel is tht comparing it with Indian babas or any "Astro uncles" is of no use..they are not always correct on their predictions.its d truth & they regret it.Paul failed during d Euro2008 and even before..fifa2008 was just a mere luck.
    but still we cannot say wht if it comes to india..the land of superstion :)

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