Every thing has an end, this simple truth sometime hurt us when we have to bid afrewell to our loved adimired things and persons. Ganguly wont't be playing anymore after this test series, and like any other Indian male with self respect feeling of justice, it hurts to see the way he has to leave. For me he is the ultimate fighter. I dont remember the time whne I first heard his name, it might be after class 5 or something . Some one said he is the best thing in offisde, someone said he is the most arrogant indian cricketer ever, someone said he is the smartest indian cricketer ever. I didnt have any opinion about him at the starting. But as he became god in our part of the world I started hating him. Tendulkar was my all time favourite batsman , but at that time ganguly was giving sachin stiff competition as the best ODI batsman. Sachin was hosrt so am I, so I have somesort of weak point for sachin and that made me very critical about ganguly. Another thing , which was very strongly present was the fact that everyone was praising ganguly at that time, and i strictly cant do things which everyone does , and in a democratic system it is better to form lots of minoritygroups, then and only then proper justice can take place. Anyway whatever be the reason I was very critical about him, but one thing was totally obvious that he was the man of supreme confidence and self respect but above all he is the greatest fighter india ever had in any field. I strongly felt the difference he made to indian mentality after i went to India. Indian males were thought to be really submissive type, who will never fight and can not protect his own belongings, lacks physical smartness and all in all a defeated class. This was the colonialist propaganda to alter the sexual selection of Indian females, so that they will give preference to white westerners ( like the husband shopping concept of latin american females), but unlike latin america this propaganda failed and so showing the weak non combative picture of Indian males became very prominent in western world. Normally in this kind situation other nations racted differently, like China . They started developing their sporting facilities, sport gives a moral booster to a whole nation, and specially its counter propaganda quality. India had hockey once upon a time but it died since the westerners wanted to end the indian dominance and they re invented hockey and it rules and our indian friends never believed in competing. So for a long time india had only one sports, the insect . Though India won world cup , but if i try to imagine the faces and the attitude of the cricketers of that time , I can only match them with the kind of attitude my father has. It is like give me what my share is and i dont want anything, you decide what will be my share , and even if you abuse me after giving my share i will forgive you ro i will show you by my work how good i am. It continued till the era of early sachin and late azhar timer. But then ganguly became the captain, and india team changed. For ganguly he is not satisfied with his share, he wants everything, for him winning is not the last thing , it is destroying the opponent, specially the strongest opponents. No one ever believed that steve waugh can wait for toss because the opponent skipper was in the dressing room, he is the first cricketer to start using local language slang against the whites, he also made sure that the word phirangi is used as a slang. It was high time to show the whites their original picture, and he did that. Whenevr I am down and out I always remember his innings in adelaide , or the great test match against australia in eden gardens. The pale and pigmentally challeneged face of all aussies and the jubilient Indian blue caps. For ganguly there is only one thing I can say Joy guru Enjoy guru, for very few contemporary bongs like you still i remember my bong connection.