Life can be described at its best
as a 50 50 endeavor. It is divided between happiness and sorrow, success and failure,
winning and losing, hope and despair, day and night, winter and summer. At the
start of this summer of 2019, I had a wish list of three things that I had no control over
to happen: Mumbai Indians winning IPL, Modi winning general elections and Kohli
lifting World Cup. Summer still is at its glory in this part of world while
monsoons have set in finally in most part of India ending long summer there. Ignoring
IPL to be non-serious matter, on the rest two accounts it was fifty-fifty
verdict. While India and Modi won riding on a very effective campaign, lack of
opposition and support of aspiring India, Virat lost it thanks to bad selection
and decisions, half an hour of bad cricket at crucial moment. This column has
said lot about why India won when Modi won. Though we will delve upon what next
after the election and what needs to be the agenda for Modi2.0, but while
analyzing World Cup we should also now focus on what’s next. As many serious
thinkers will find it childish to equate cricket with National cause, but for
this column cricket is passion while politics is a way of life. Cricket this time was 50 overs matter and in Indian Politics its about 50 % absolute majority and only around 50% of voters bother to Vote.
