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El Clasico : A Game for Football Lovers

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It's El Classico!! It's amazing!! Defending Champions vs League Leaders. 3rd placed team vs Unbeaten team. But Still BEST vs BEST.  Two sides equally good in each section of the game. Navas vs Ter Stegen, Ramos vs Pique, Modric vs Iniesta, Ronaldo vs Messi.  It was a beautiful game, players respected each other, Real Madrid kept the midfield tight disallowing Suarez any movement to the front and Barca decoded Zidane's tactics before the commencement of 2nd half, which finally made the Bernabeu silent. And Hats Off to Keylor Navas and Ter Stegen who kept the game alive. Line-Ups Real Madrid:  Navas, Carvajal, Sergio Ramos, Varane, Ronaldo, Kroos, Benzema, Modric, Marcelo, Casemiro, Kovacic.  Subs:  K. Casilla, Nacho, Bale, Theo, Lucas V, Asensio, Isco. Barcelona:  Ter Stegen; Pique, Rakitic, Sergio, Iniesta, Suarez, Messi, Paulinho, Jordi Alba, R oberto, Vermaelen.  Subs:  Cillessen, Semedot, Denis Suárez, Mascherano, Digne, André Gom...

Trip Begins!!

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One of the best trips I ever had begun in the evening of 26 November 2017. A trip to Odisha and Kolkata. It started with the departing in the train to Sambalpur. A comfortable and scenic journey, with my parents. We were lucky enough to capture a beautiful sunset. In the start, we got the company of an old family friend and his wife. An intellectual person, telling his views on the current journalism and literature, daunted with its plight in our city, Bikaner. Totally agreed with him, people don't write for writing, they write for money and that too of a standard except for a handfull of people. Leave it. Sunset In the journey, we passed through a couple of states, Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh. Madhya Pradesh was a beauty. Mostly covered with vegetation and that too beautiful. Every moment outside was capturable. But it was not possible as the window of my coach was not cleaned and made the photo to be captured almost impossible. But Railway too good, respo...

Do We Need Old Age Homes ?

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India is a country where parents are God to their children. In this fast moving modern India , children have changed the definition of Parents. Now, for many of them parents are not God , they are burden . Should they be? In 60s and 70s , old age homes were like water in a desert . So few that  people didn't even knew their existence . But the scenario has changed , especially in urban cities. The reason of the change in mentality is that people have started taking parents as a burden and have started to discredit them, instead of blessings and responsibility. They have lost emotions which are important part of any relationship. These people have lost their values in order to conquer the materialistic valuables of the world. In last one or two decades, people have changed their primary objective of living  , giving love and getting love, giving respect and getting respect and giving happiness and getting tons of happiness in return. But they have started to look for happine...

Manchester Derby :10/12/2017

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One of the biggest games of the season, a crucial one both in terms of feeling and title race, Manchester Derby. A game between two halves of Manchester and Mourinho and Guardiola, who continued their rivalary from Barcelona and Real Madrid times. This derby was a different for United fans as there was no Rooney in the team sheet and became different for city fans too as Aguero started on bench, Brazilian Jesus replacing him on the derby day.    I am a Red Devil and being honest, We need to work more, especially Lukaku, he is not living upto his price and fame. He is a beast but one who wakes up not so often. He slept all the match and woke up just to assist two for Manchester City. He didn't made his presence felt and left Martial and Rashford to do wonders alone. His first derby appearance could be remembered just for this, this. Defensively, Reds were good , dealt with blues throughout the match. But in midfield, Reds gave too much space too Silva, De Bruyne...