The Tiger bites a Lion..

Hello people... Bachi Karkaria had me in splits with this blog... I took the liberty to post it here for you guys and have transalted some bambaiyya language into Englist for your benefit.. Enzoy.. Hope she doesnt mind ;)

Bichare Balasaheb. How it is his fault? What he can he do if the name of the state is Maharashtra. Means, it is the maha- rashtra, no? Means, it has to be greater than the rashtra, no. Then why all the people are khali-pili ( unnecessarily) bom marta (shouting) over his attack on Tendulkar?

If you are called Maharashtra year in and year out, then the delusion of grandeur must get embedded in your DNA as surely as e coli in Mumbai's drinking water. It means you are above not just all other states, but above the Indian state itself. So naturally, Thackeray senior got his saffron silk dhoti in a twist over Sachin-baba's skewed notion of nationalism.

In his version of Tebbit's 'cricket loyalty test', Tendulkar put being Indian over being Maharashtrian, which the Supremo considers nothing short of high treason. So, he was perfectly entitled to launch a maha yuddh over it. Maharashtra must score over Mahabharat, no? What else could Krishna have done than give an 'affectionate warning' to the one-time Arjuna awardee?

Nakkich (Surely), Balasaheb is right. Of course, all cricketing glory is only about our Maharashtra. So where does India even enter the picture? Wadekar, Gavaskar, Vengsarkar, Tendulkar - the game is entirely our 'kar'mabhoomi.

Rubbing lasan chatni (Garlic pickle) into the chauvinistic wound, Sachin also foolishly stated that 'Mumbai belongs to the whole country'. So, he ekdum and fully-ch deserved the threat that Thackeray bowled at him in Saamna. Thank Chhatrapati Maharaj, that the misguided fellow at least had the sense not to say 'Bombay'. Then his batata vada (hey days) days would surely be numbered.

Nakkich, Balasaheb is right. Of course, Tendulkar must keep off the political pitch. But politicians must not keep off the cricket pitch. They must keep digging it up like the Shiv Sena men did at Ferozesha Kotla during the 1999 India- Pakistan test series and again in Agra in 2003, just before the Veterans Match with you-know-who.

Nakkich, Balasaheb is right. Of course, he had to warn Tendulkar 'not to lose on the political pitch what he has earned on the cricket pitch'. Who says Thackeray senior is already in danger of losing on this cricket pitch what he had earned on the political pitch? Or whatever is left of his legacy after his son has turned it into a gilli-danda game, and his nephew has run away with the danda. At one time, Indian cricket too had its Tiger, but Pataudi's pampered cub is not interested in being out for a duck; he prefers to go out with a Size Zero instead. No such self-indulgence for the heirs to the Sena lair.They must valiantly continue the mission of hacking down the rich biodiversity of the Mumbai forest and turn it into a monoculture which saps the soil and the sons thereof.

Well, like mortals, tigers too must age. Often they turn into man-eaters since they are too weak to take on prey worthy of their earlier prowess. But this time, our Tiger hasn't attacked a man, but a lionized boy. So wagh-saheb has bitten off more than he can now chew. It hasn't helped that he's still licking his wounds from the last election, where he was thrown to the wolves.
The latest attack is considered a slip even in the gulleys where the Supremo is still venerated. The Marathi manoos proudly consider Sachin to be one of their own, and the boy from Shivaji Park has always returned the compliment with grace and modesty. He is a steeped-in-the-varan local. So, sorry Balasaheb, to borrow from another game, this time you have scored an 'own goal'. Why, if aapla Tendlya was the type to swear oaths , you could safely bet that he'd do so in Marathi.

So long...