get energy and feverish enthuasism to work from Rohit Raghuram Rajan and many more honest and hardworking souls;People cannot be taken for a ride,R

I am neither a player nor an  admirer of cricket game. I watch sometimes and also look through  the economics lens. In this edition, let me  make some reference to Rohit Sharma the evolving cricketer and Prof Raghuram  Rajan our RBI chief.

On the fast pitches abroad , India has been consistently losing and the ongoing series against Australia  is not an exception. The redeeming feature however  is that  India has made a decent total around 300 in all the three matches played  thus far and neatly washed out… it is an honourable defeat. If only Shikkar Dhawan had played some responsible innings and Aswin also included  India will not find itself in this awkward situation .

Going back to the player who had the guts and luck I must hasten to add that Rohit Sharma is increasingly confident after registering a few hundreds against Australia which normally does not give an “opposition an inch”; he was humble enough to admit that he has never thought he was talented and could achieve anything like this.It is not talent but hard work has given him this status.

He has made a point rightly that the top order batsman has the responsibility to stay long and build the innings in order that the middle order and tail end will not be subject to any crisis situation. His revelation that after scoring hundred, he does not want to play any reckless game but instead begins from zero again to start another worthwhile innings build another century if possible is worth emulating by players of his similar caliber .

More  recently Our RBI chief made some plain speaking that the staff of RBI should imbibe good work culture and that enforcement of compliance is much to be desired and said: WE DO NOT PUNISH THE WRONG DOER- UNLESS HE IS SMALL AND WEAK “.

Kindly recall some time ago I had drawn attention to his classic statement that more than 1.6 lakhs crores of NPAs are due from the rich and that in an opportunity cost sense we could have built more schools and toilet facilities for the entire population With that amount

He not only predicted the global financial crisis 0f 2007-08 but also talked many sensible things about the debate on tolerance and droves home the important point that political stability is more important for managing the economy.That means  the nonsense of interference in many central universities in the recent past must be a thing of the past. Will the academicians follow Rajan and Rohit? Ie focus on the task at hand  avoid caste based and religion induced and region based bias in deciding the issues.Let bloody dirty and divisive politics take the  back seat or no seat and the problems of the poor and weak  occupy the attention of the rulers. More importantly , let our PM  take a long break from foreign travel  and concentrate on domestic issues of vital importance.