In his jail term, youth gets four degrees! Wants to become a lecturer
Prison transforms life of a convicted person
Bengaluru, Jan 22: “The main aim of my life is to educate the youth who have been attracting towards crime very easily, through my articles and lectures”, said Yallappa of Doddaballapura in Bengaluru rural district.
During his life imprisonment in the jail, Yallappa completed two undergraduate degrees and two post graduation degrees, due to his good behavior, he was released from Parappana Agrahara jail on Republic Day last year. Now once again, he is making news not as a convicted, but releasing a book written by him on the same place where he was jailed for more than 14 years.
The life of Yallappa (38) who wrote a book on jail mates who spent time with him in the jail, is itself like a story of a film. Due to poverty, Yallappa could not continue his studies after 7th standard.
Even then, he was a good Kabaddi player. In 2004, he had been to Bhagat Singh stadium to watch a cricket match and clashed with local person Giribabu. When the clash turned violent, Giribabu attacked Yallappa with a sickle.
But taking the same sickle, Yallappa attacked Giribabu in a fit of anger and killed him on the spot. Police arrested him and remanded to judicial custody.
Later, Bengaluru Sessions Court convicted him to life imprisonment. Because of his anger, he had to serve jail term for 14.8 years. Meanwhile, he saw another jail-mate who was BSc drop out, taking an exam in the jail and Yallappa wanted to study.
Since he has just studied till 7th standard, he did not know what to do. Finally, Bengaluru university has allowed him to study BA through distance education and passed graduation in his first attempt.
Later, he studied post graduation in Journalism and Public Administration and thus got two post graduation degrees. After this, with the help of jail authorities he helped other jail-mates to complete education and thus got appreciation from the jail officers.
After this achievement, Yallappa wanted to do Ph.D degree on ‘role of jail officers in transforming the convicted and got the permission from the jail officers and visited 8 central jails including Ballari, Belagavi, Mysuru and Koramangala and stayed there for some time and studied the situation. Now he has presented his Ph.D theses on the same issue and is about get his Ph.D degree.
He is writing another book on real stories of the people who were attracted to criminal field. Since the society and family would treat them as jailed persons, Yallappa has decided not to marry. But he wanted to become a lecturer to educate the youth, he said.
He is writing the real stories of eight persons who were convicted to life imprisonment after involving in murders in a fit of anger. Yallappa who was jailed as a ‘murderer’ has published a 200-page book ‘Jailu Jeevagalu’. He has written the book as a caution to those who enter criminal world without knowing the dangers of life. The main objective of his writings is to educate and warn the youth against criminal field, he said.
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A 99-run loss is unacceptable: Hayden blames batting horror
Ahmedabad (PTI): Gujarat Titans' batting coach Matthew Hayden was scathing about their 99-run defeat to Mumbai Indians, blaming a "horror" batting display and poor death bowling for the heavy loss in the IPL.
From being 44/3 in 5.5 overs, MI hammered 73 runs in the last four overs to post a challenging 199/5 here on Monday. In reply, GT were bundled out for 100.
"I expect our margins to be a lot smaller than 100 (99). That is an unacceptable scorecard for our batting unit," the legendary Australian opener told media in the post-match interaction.
"It was just a horrible day for us today. Truth be told, there was nothing good about this day, really, apart from Rabada's performance with the ball. so we've got some work to do, definitely."
GT boast a strong batting line-up in Sai Sudharsan (759 runs), Shubman Gill (717), and Jos Buttler (538). They have also added New Zealand’s explosive Glenn Phillips in the middle order alongside Shahrukh Khan and Rahul Tewatia.
"When you look down at our batting line-up, we've got wonderful players that have to be in a better mindset and better position to take their opportunities. That is our expectations and has been since the conception of this Gujarat Titans franchise...
"So you can't be sitting here and being happy about, a 100-run (99) margin game in a 20-over game. I mean, back in my day, 100 runs was almost a winning total in 50-over cricket!"
The 54-year-old said GT lost the game in the powerplay.
"Well, middle order was undoubtedly exposed today. When they're coming in with six overs, you know that you're in deep trouble. The thing about the power plays is that you can't win it from there, especially in a run chase, but you can definitely lose it, and we lost it in the power play," he said.
Shahrukh (35 off 25 balls) and Tewatia (49 off 42) have not fared well this season and Hayden feels the duo along with Phillips (67 off 54 balls) have been struggling because the top order has been below its best.
"The relevance behind balls faced when you look at, for example, someone like Glenn Phillips -- his record in T20 cricket is an impressive strike rate and you'll take that all day long in the majority of games," Hayden said.
"However, you need an upfront batting effort where you consistently taking the lion's share of the batting. We shouldn't be allowing, Tiwu (Tewatia) or Shahrukh or these guys lots of balls. That's not their role. That's not what they train for."
Hayden said GT has an aggressive and adaptable unit but their execution fell apart on the day.
"We are a very good thinking batting unit. We're not a conservative batting unit. You don't go out and get 200s as often as we do being conservative. But they're an adaptive batting unit. ...they've got their roles and they play them and today they simply didn't.
"So the worry isn't just today about the middle order. It'd be unfair to say that, they were going to go on and score 13 runs an over because by that stage, I felt like as a batting coach, I was on the mast and the boat was sinking."
It was poorly executed bowling effort
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Hayden also pointed to poor execution in the death overs.
"I feel like one-dimensional is very unfair on a world-class bowling attack, but I will take on board it was a poorly executed bowling effort this evening.
"When you look back at those last four overs, that was just a 'horror story' -- 73 off the last four is unacceptable as world-class players. That bowling line-up has to reflect on that performance... It was purely an executional thing."
He added that GT were below par with the ball on a surface that didn’t fully justify the high total.
"We're very average with the ball, firstly, on a wicket that I really felt was probably a 175-type wicket.
"When you look historically at this black soil pitch on No. 5, it's a 200-wicket for the loss of five batters. That's been its winning first-inning score, and today it wasn't that wicket (199/5)... It was visible that it had cracks in it. It was visible that it was up and down.
"So credit also has to go to Tilak Varma, who put in a wonderful performance. It wasn't a cookie-cutter type performance. It was a dominant performance down the ground. He read the play nicely. He was able to pick up and play with power and precision."
Hayden said the chase was still within reach but poor shot selection proved costly.
"And when you reflect on our own batting, we had one side of the ground that was a little more inaccessible than the other, and we lost, what, three wickets into the bigger side of that boundary.
"And it wasn't an impossible total. 200 still is a total that I would back our three world-class players at the top of the order to etch into that a bit more and then allow our more sort of game players. An opportunity to set out their stalls and bat deep into the innings."
