Today is a glorious day, I have faced the irritating laryngeal bacteria and won. Nevertheless, I decided to eat porridge today, and a very nice chinese lady was gracious enough to make vegetarian porridge for me. To my great surprise, it cost very less too, and was delectable.

I came across this very interesting article by Alok Rai, the grandson of 'the' Munshi Premchand. He appears to be a Marxist, and has some articles on the CPIM website under the culture section. He talks about the Hindi and the Urdu languages, and argues how they have been used to deepen the Hindu-Muslim divide. It's listed in the links for today on the right. We talked briefly about it at dinner.

How is it so that a person who plays a sport well in real life sucks at its computer version? We were trying out Cricket 2002 at Cyph's place, and it's darn stupid. In real life, when you bat, the ball comes towards you. On the other hand, on the computer the ball goes away from you. Maybe it's just sour grapes, or maybe it really is weird to imagine you are the guy wearing the helmet wielding a bat when you are really just clacking at the keyboard.

I guess that's how an armyman will feel when he plays Unreal Tournament with a mouse and keyboard. How sad, no? Maybe computers should control our lives less. Why should children play cricket on computers? It just doesn't make sense to me. The whole idea of it. I can understand F1 2002 or strategy games like Red Alert, but field/court games like Cricket, Football or Basketball should be kept off the computer.

What say?