Beyond the pitch

Hats off to Sri Lankan Test cricket team ! They showed composure against a quality Test cricket team. South Africa is not an easy team to beat even on home soil given that their statistics in the subcontinent are superb !Dimuth Karunarathne batted so well and he had a clear plan in his mind from ball number 1. Herath, Dilruwan and Sandakan showed that they are invincible on Galle pitch. And specially Suranga Lakmal should be hailed for his positive mindset as the captain; the way he stood up as the captain with bat and ball was superb ! Well done Sri Lanka!

Hello friends, Welcome back to the blog after quite a period of time ! I would like to write few thoughts on Karl Marx following a video I watched this morning. The video was titled "who is Karl Marx" and it has been produced by Deutsche Welle. The video follows a report of Peter Dörfler. I guess its focus has been given to Marx's 200 birth anniversary in May 2018. It traces Marx's journey from Drier, his birthtown to England where he produced his masterpiece Das Kapital with Engels. It also examines Marx's imfluence on Communist Republic of China. It ends with the beatiful image of a miniature Marx ornament which I found strikingly important for the whole documentary: it shows how pathetic and ironical that Marx himself has been reificated and been used as a fetish in history. The discussions also reveal how Marx has been misinterpreted in history and how his deep pychological concepts like alienation has been ignored. The documentary tries to validate his posi...