A small African country with Burkina Faso (the capital of which incidentally is Ouagadougou) and the Ivory Coast as neighbors has an area approximately 7% of ours. The population is about 2% of a billion and the per capita of $2,500 as compared to around $3,300 that each of the Indian billion earns. The differences in GDP of course are similarly comparable. So how is a Sub-Saharan country like Ghana (which has a currency called cedi (seedy?)) giving Brazil a hard time at the World Cup? And a pretty bad time at that. Final scores are 3-0 in Brazil's favour thanks to a 5 min killer by fatman Ronaldo then some controversial offside-not-called goal by Adriano some where around 43 min into the first half and finally ze Roberto in the 84th. But Ghana's been attacking with some statistically insignificantly higher possession time. It's insignificant but its higher. The question is a cliched one. How come all we have to show is an Army guy who can shoot straight? Oh there is the lady too... What lady? Sania Of course. If she'll stop drinking so much Sprite and lose about 10 pounds she might cross the court a little faster and stop making excuses about clay being boring.
Tragic the state of the world.And all our favourite news channels will pick up some obscure villages in Bihar and Kerala and show how little girls are bending it like Beckham. Thankfully not like Posh. Which is more of a Times NOW thing. Speaking of Times, Zoom and everything that's not right, MIDDAY's Bangalore edition is on the streets. Bangalore Times finally has competition to sleaze away ad nauseum.
In other bits of information the Government has always proposed that 72 condoms are sufficient for a couple for a year. How? It isn't a newly wed couple we're talking about. In that case 72 may not last out the honeymoon. It's the average indian frequency which is 72. There is of course the story of filling a jar with marbles everytime sex happens in the first year of marriage and then taking them out everytime after the first year. The result, in most cases, is that the jar never gets empty. But i digress. When we first read of this number it seemed woefully inadequate. It still does but prompted some socio-statistical thought. 52 weeks in a year. Knock off a week a month for that time of the month. I know it's not a week but yeah you get the drift. That leaves 40 weeks of potential... time. Now is twice a week a normal average? One would have to take into consideration pesky kids who can't sleep alone, pesky guests who won't sleep, familial structure (joint or otherwise), marital discord... but I think it should be ok.
I think I'm getting to a point where I have more time than I know what to do with. Or just don't want to do what I need to.
