Indian sport is at an all time high. Be it the splendid performance of athletes at the recently concluded Melbourne Commonwealth Games or the Indian Cricket team’s series win over arch rivals Pakistan. A country where Cricket is by far the most popular sport and cricketers treated as gods, sports like Formula1, Tennis, Chess etc have off-late shared the limelight.
Cricket has long been accused of a sport that gains maximum media attention also resulting in huge corporate sponsorships not just for the game but also for the players. The point to be noted here is that it makes business sense for the media and corporates to back a sport in which our countrymen are doing well. You can’t expect to win a big sponsorship deal for an Indian hockey team for which you got to jog your memory to recall the last win or for our football team which never qualified through the regional league also.
Sania Mirza, Vishwanathan Anand, Leander Paes, Mahesh Bhupati, Narain Karthikeyan are some of the names which are doing the rounds selling you a PC, colas, car etc. This clears one point which is that if you are good enough to perform at the world stage there are people to back you up.
Though there is another point to note which is that even being a country of a billion people, we struggle each time to win a single gold in Olympics. There is a huge need to promote sport in our educational institutions and within corporate organizations. There is a lot of stress upon students to do well in academics and sport always take the back seat. Sports are looked down upon by parents and majority wants their kids to grow up and take up a regular office job. The attitude needs to be changed; parents should realize that sports are not just a good career but also a source for developing the overall personality of the kid.
All the athletes who have done our country proud deserve a pat on the back and we should all promote our sportsmen, So the next time you are sitting with an American friend never forget to mention a Arjun Atwal or a Mahesh Bhupati to an Englishman or a Narain Karthikeyan to a European.
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The reason for this reservation mess as well as other evils in our society is because professionals and honest educated people have not come forward to participate in the political process. Many Criminals, uneducated and corrupt persons have taken the place instead. They use educated or Nehru family persons on the top as a front only.
If professionals want to make a real difference they should immediately form a new party open only to, professionals (doctors, engineers, chartered accountants, lawyers, Ph. D. holding academics, professional students from leading colleges like AIIMS, IIT, IIM, I. Sc., Industrialists and NRI’s only). A few politicians who have openly opposed reservations like Kapil Sibal and Navjot Siddhu should be invited to guide in the political process. The agenda of the new party should be
1. Make all casteism illegal and abolish all proposed and existing reservations
2. Genuinely help backward communities by improving their living and financial conditions, providing good education right where they live from nursery up
3. Have zero tolerance for corruption
4. But all issues on back burner until basics like electricity, water, and timely justice in courts is established
The new party should then field candidates in all elections, by-elections at all levels in the country and shun games like seat adjustments. They will win surely because Indians are fed up with the mess.
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