I guess some leaders speak because they want to, without thinking about ramifications. Saurav Gangulay and Rahul Dravid are two great cricketers, who made country proud, and doing so. People should do anything or everything to make country proud by sports, art, academics or whatever. Classifying sportsmen as not to be ideal for young generation is "JUST PLAIN STUPID".
Its true that Chandrashekar Azaad, Bhagat Singh, Khudiraam Bose, Mahatma Ghandi, Sardaar all were great men, but everybody can't be like them. Great players, great politicians are entirely different and people should make whoever they think of as their ideal. I can bet on one thing; nobody would like to make Rajnath Singh as ideal.
Reading this news item has left me embarrassed and disgusted. I think Rediff shouldn't have even bothered to publish it at first place.
