Cricket World Cup 2011!!!
Well done Team INDIA and Vande Madaram!!! It was a momentous day for all of us, I would have thought. India winning the Cricket world cup on April 2 nd 2011, was the tryst with destiny, especially for the young generation Indians. I could easily tell that, the finals at Lord’s 28 years ago, on the 25 th of June, 1983 , when the then tournament minnows beat the mighty West Indies , was the “ FINAL ” that would be always etched on the mind of ours, the then young generation!! I was 14 then and was in year 10 at school and what a time we had!! The match was seen, so many times after that by most of us, and not to forget the highlights, which were shown often in our then Doordharshan, for nearly a year. That matched completely changed the young Indian generation’s psyche, opening up the horizon and the new world, made us youngsters feel stronger, at least mentally, whilst in the process slowly getting rid of the colonial made inferiority complex. I could v