[Reader-list] Holi Bakshish

[Jeebesh]

I have a faint feeling that both of you have never played any sport or  
team game. Hope i am wrong.

Zafar Iqbal the mercurial once shared his growing up as a player in  
Aligarh Muslim University. It was early 70s. He was describing how the  
pro-vice chancellor would be standing outside and would serve lemon  
juice during breaks of practice matches to the student players.  
Players learnt hockey and dignity from these gestures. This man who  
stood giving lemon juice was not giving bakshish. He knew the labour  
involved in playing a sport well.

Nobody plays for "bakshish" Mr. Malik. It takes years of lonely  
practice to become a player. Thousand plays without notice. from them  
a few emerges.

warmly
jeebesh

On 01-Mar-10, at 11:08 PM, subhrodip sengupta wrote:

> What will happen to the crore is anybody's guess :).
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: A.K. Malik <akmalik45 at yahoo.com>
> To: Jeebesh <jeebesh at sarai.net>
> Cc: reader-list at sarai.net
> Sent: Mon, 1 March, 2010 6:10:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Holi Bakshish
>
> Dear Mr Jeebesh,
>                 This is because they get pat on their backs when  
> they give Bakshish but it would not have created any news for them  
> if they had given one crore at the start of the match. Everyone  
> wants publicity especially on wins.You have seen the same cricket  
> team being cursed when they are defeated and get showers of praises  
> and lot of Bakshish termed prizes for them when they win.
> Regards,
> (A.K.MALIK)
>
>
> --- On Mon, 3/1/10, Jeebesh <jeebesh at sarai.net> wrote:
>
>> From: Jeebesh <jeebesh at sarai.net>
>> Subject: [Reader-list] Holi Bakshish
>> To: "Sarai Reader-list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
>> Date: Monday, March 1, 2010, 2:43 PM
>> Suresh Kalmadi on TV phone talk with
>> an news anchor after the opening
>> world cup hockey match win of the Indian team, said that he
>> is happy
>> and will give a "bakshish" of 1 lakh rupees to each
>> player.
>>
>> This reveals why the hockey team earlier had to go on a
>> strike to
>> argue for stable salaries. They asked for a stable payment
>> of 1 crore
>> for the full team for salaries. But Mr. Management could
>> not
>> understand it, TV channels could not understand it!!
>>
>> The sports managements here only understand wins and then
>> bakshish.
>> Nothing else.
>>
>> For commonwealth games this same management is handling a
>> few thousand
>> crores.
>>
>> Amazing.
>>
>> Happy Holi.
>>
>> Jeebesh
>>
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