Hi

Lots of things going on around as usual .
The weekend passed off pretty weekly ; it usually does when you are busy.

It was Ganesh Chaturthi on Sunday and was celelebrated with fervour all over India. It is also known as Vinayak Chaturthi, mainly in the Western Parts of the country. It is a festival celebrated publicly with a lot of enthusiasm and by the chants of "Ganpati Baba Maurya" .

England team regained the Ashes series,2009. It was fitting farewell to one of the best modern day cricketers of England : Andrew Flintoff. A charismatic allrounder , he was largely responsible for playing the vital link in many a matches with Australia.
Australia went into a state of "sports" mourning with this loss as Ricky Ponting becomes the 1st Captain in 119 years to lose the Ashes twice under his captaincy. Well as someone said in a newspaper article " Is this the Beginning of the End" ...

In India , the BJP as a party is washing its dirty linen in the public ; after Jaswant Singh, it was Arun Shourie to lash out at the party in the open , accussing the top leadership of running the party as a Private Company. It must to be very sad for Mr Vajpayee to read the papers nowadays.

In the Sports world ( not cricket-world ) ;
Kenenisa Bekele became the first athlete to win the 5,000 and 10,000m crowns at a World championship, something not even the legendary Haile Gebrselassie managed.