The IESE Spring Fling 2009 tournament, where business meets sports, was a chance or rather an excuse for the IE Cricket team to regroup, network and enjoy the beautiful city of Barcelona after weeks of tight classes and deliverables. The IE Cricket Team prior to the tournament practiced with the Madrid Cricket Club (MCC), affiliated to International Cricket Council, and held a practice match which consisted of players from different parts of the world. Come 28th of March and we were in rainy Barcelona. IE Cricket team went along with two teams, and it was a tournament with 6 teams. 2 from IESE Business School, 2 from IE Business School, 1 from INSEAD Business School, and 1 from ESADE Business School. It was drizzling throughout as we started preparing for our opening game and this discouraged our team to an extent. The fact that Cricket and rain don’t gel with each other as does in Rugby/ Football put us in two minds whether to go ahead with the play. It was a wonderful atmosphere and despite the bad weather all the teams agreed to play and enjoy. There was a slight delay and the weather looked dull. With slight drizzle around the park the umpires decided to start the play. We started off our opening game with ESADE. Some superb team work and collective batting and fielding helped us chase the scores, but in vain. The team lost marginally with just 5-6 runs to win in the end in a high scoring match. Later we went onto play against IESE – a do or die game, and yet again we managed to hardly disturb their batting line up. Regardless, the team held their heads high and went along to party with other members after the tournament. Barbeque, drinks, people. A wonderful networking event for most of us and the one each one of us was eagerly looking forward for. And that’s when we thought - Match on!! For IE Cricket Team –It’s all about people...
Jaago Re! One Billion Votes campaign has made voter registration really simple. A powerful campaign with powerful tools and messages. Jaagore is about creating awareness amongst the Youth, people who have never excercised voting and also a way to educate voters at all levels. I believe Jaagore is n
ot about voters registration. To me its a matter of making people realize on how they act to improvise the system. How many of us really know that the number of youth legally entitled to vote (18-30 years) is around 30%. For the matter of fact until I received my first voters card years ago, even I was not aware. The campaign for the first time in India is making use of the online registration form and helps register your name within 5 mins. It helps understand the different constituency and updates with the latest happenings around. After all education, health, slums, rains, draughts, food, riots, poverty, modernization, youth power...everything needs a change or rather improvement. Our votes can't bring a drastic change, but atleast can act as a stepping stone in making some change happen. Each vote is crucial. That doesn't mean to wake up and just go and vote. Gain the knowledge of all the candidancy within your constituency who will be standing for elections. Now-a-days the general elections also publish the records of each of these candidates. So all information is infront of us. It's upto each individual to make use of it. It's our right to decide whom we vote and how we can help improve the system. Understanding the ideology of the parties and the individuals representing the party is one way and the best way to do it.
Chart your journey and excercise your right to vote.
No Vote - No Say !! - Vote today, don't curse tomorrow...
Sacche ko chune - acche ko chune - Aamir Khan's election awareness campaign commercial
References (All about general elections 2009) : http://pib.nic.in/elections2009/default.asp
Campaign against Criminals in Politics (Contains list of some MP's with criminal background) : http://www.nocriminals.org/
Learn more about the main parties: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f9240158-251f-11de-8a66-00144feabdc0.html
