[Reader-list] Holi Bakshish

[A.K. Malik]

Yes, Sir. You are right. I have not played any sports except for sometime when I used to play hockey and could only afford to play with a branch of a tree with a little bend on one side. Couldn't continue for long so I know why players ask for more money.But ,Sir what I have said is based on what I see and observe.May be I am wrong and you are right.But it was just what was my opinion on the matter and I never said players were playing for Bakshish. The comment was made for the management.
Regards
(A.K.MALIK)


--- On Tue, 3/2/10, Jeebesh <jeebesh at sarai.net> wrote:

> From: Jeebesh <jeebesh at sarai.net>
> Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Holi Bakshish
> To: "Sarai Reader-list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Date: Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 1:12 AM
> 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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