Barca and all things real

Early April 2017 :- A video from an absolutely new channel, Hardik Sapra, comes up. It shows a young boy, twelve years of age, solving the Rubik's cube five times and getting an average of 23 seconds. The video quality is similar to that of 1970 movies. The view count is not too high. The boy with a Gan  cube as a display picture started his YouTube career. Over the next one week he dropped two more videos. He started getting the hang of the whole thing. However he still had many problems to encounter : the video quality, the content, the audio, etc. He next uploaded after a month. Even this video did not get too many views. He soon realized that he was not to get too many views. None of his videos had even hit a fifty.  Over the next few months he kept uploading videos. However, none of them still crossed the 50 view mark. His content was not too interesting. He himself started losing interest in his YouTube channel. He, however, did not lose his love for cubing. It all chang...

I come from an unusual family. My father is from Punjab. My mother hails from the land of Bengal. I happen to be from Hyderabad. The people from my father's family are extreme right wingers, nationalists and religious. So of course, my mother is a complete Marxist, anti nationalist and atheist. The differences are innumerable. However, they have learned how to live with their differences and so have I. Such a background has caused me to come up with my own conclusions rather than agree with one side. This summer, I like many others, was completely tired of the Hyderabadi heat. Feeling jobless and lonely after a lively year of school had ended, the prospect of going to Chandigarh and then Amritsar really thrilled me. I had never been to the latter ever before. I was supposed to go with my dad, my granddad, my aunt and her two children. All of them except me had been to Amritsar before, so the prospect of visiting the place for them wasn't as exciting as it was for me. We went ...

I write this blog regarding the current education system in our country. My name is Hardik Sapra and I am fourteen years old and currently studying in Hyderabad. I wish to share this problem, I and many other people I know of, are going through. It is a well known fact that some parts of the country speak very good Hindi and some parts don't. This causes a line of division between the two groups and automatically puts the good Hindi speakers a foot ahead. This is a great disadvantage of the many South Indians, Bengalis, and so on, who are quite good at almost all subjects but are let down by this. I feel that judging students by their skills in sciences, humanities, arts, and other such fields, is a fairer way. Another thing is that in the coming future, as India makes itself a better developed country in the world, the need for Hindi will vanish and rightly so. It's more important to adapt to tomorrow's world than to live in yesterday's. Adaptation can't come witho...

The biggest La Liga game of the year certainly did not let us down. It's was definitely the most entertaining match we've seen all season. Action from both sides, good shots, good saves, a red card, the La Liga decider was packed with action. Both teams started off very well with confidence in their attacks. Diego Costa headed over the crossbar on one side and on the other Jordi Alba hit the post. However, after the half hour mark everything changed. Diego Costa fouled Arthur and then lost his temper, resulting in a red card for the Spaniard. At this point the game was Barca's to lose. They had a man extra, were playing with their best team and had the home advantage. However, their creativity in the final third was very disappointing. Atletico defended with everyone except one or two of their forwards such as Griezmann and later Morata. After the break Barca knew they had to come up with something quick. Leo Messi, whom I didn't mention at all so far, which is surpris...

  A good performance against the worst team in la liga without our best player Date - 10/03/2018 Stadium - La Rosaleda ( Malaga ) Barca travelled to Malaga for the clash (or is it?) between the first placed team in La Liga and the 20th placed team. Lionel Messi missed the game due to personal reasons, but the team didn't miss Messi one bit.  First 45 minutes All the damage was done for Malaga in the first half. Five minutes on Malaga keeper Roberto saved a shot from Suarez that was intended for the left bottom corner. 10 minutes later Alba gave a very Alba-like cross in and Suarez  nearly headed it in. Precisely 13 minutes later, Dembele came thundering into the box, did a fake and gave a left footed pass to Philippe Coutinho who tapped it in with his right heel. A couple of minutes later Manu Garcia was given a direct red after a clumsy challenge on Jordi Alba. Second 45 minutes Barca pressed more this time. Even though they could not convert, it has to be said that they...

              When will Ernesto Valverde            trust Coutinho and Dembele Many would be wondering why Erneato Valverde did not play Ousmane Dembele against Atletico. The Barca manager chose a defensive squad against Atletico and it has to be admitted that it was one of the best evenings ever for the defenders. But the team definetly lacked attacking force. If it wasn't for a brilliant Messi free-kick, Barca would be under a lot of pressure. A player like Dembele would have been very effective against a team like Atletico Madrid. And this was just one of the riddles Valverde has left for us to solve. Why didn't Coutinho and Dembele start against Las Palmas, why does Coutinho keep getting substituted off even while playing well ? Let us try and answer some of these questions.  Okay, Dembele isn't good enough for every game Ousmane Dembele has been looking shaky and the only way that problem is going to be solved is...