A hell lot of Indians would have landed in China if the Olympics had some connections with Cricket or bollywood.Indians know that their country will have an extremely dismal performance like most of the previous olmypics in more than two decades. What a shame that a country with an exploding population and more and more thousands to add to it cannot produce competent sportsmen to bag medals at this grand international event. Every second parent and their female child would aspire to become an international model and particiapte in some stupid international beauty pagent.The male child would aspire to either become some boring IT professional,a money -sucking,unethical ugly doctor/a MNC slave or a winner at a corporate backed television dance and music competition where everything has already been set up and there is no element of competency. All these are just for nothing but fast money and the hardwork and talent required in all these does not match to that of becoming an olympic gold medalist.Those who have made some mark in sports are glamourised more as model figure and are also expected to land up in inferior bollywood someday.Example Sania Mirza.The rest interested in sports go to cricket to indulge in politics and become great politicians and sleep in a bed of money which they take for granted.More and more Indian parents are in the queue to send their children to realms of shallowness,vulgarity and low level of aesthetics inculcated under the auspices of bollywood.
RE:India Shinning
by nalini on Aug 09, 2008 11:25 AM Permalink
WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING ? VERY EASY TO BLAME OTHERS? EACH ONE THINKS AND BLAMES OTHERS LIKE YOU.IT GOES ON AND ON.
RE:India Shinning
by sudipta kirans sarkar on Aug 09, 2008 11:00 AM Permalink
Well said and most Indian sportsmen who have gone to Beijing will do so much of shopping that it would require two saperate planes to fly the same flight back to India. Many will think that we have won all the medals in Beijing and shall be amazed. Feel extreme pain in saying this but this is the truth.
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by URMILA NATARAJAN on Aug 09, 2008 11:10 AM Permalink
Today is Saturday, so you have enough time to lay back in your arm chair and pass some comments. What is new in what you said? Please suggest some solutions and work towards that. At least do your part to improve the conditin of sprts here. Otherwise just keep quiet and enjoy cricket.
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by thebedazzled on Aug 09, 2008 12:00 PM Permalink
in urmila's country, there are 110 billion people (refer comment above) must be her own kids. urmila btw now who is relaxing n passing comments? gargi, sathish, sudipta, wat abt a small olympic association which is run privately like ICL of cricket? govt has not done n will not do ever. if private olympic associations come up n market these games well (hockey, archery, tack n field, swimming) money will flow in. then we can have national annnual event. enuff of abusing govt now.they r deaf
RE:India Shinning
by wow aaha on Aug 09, 2008 11:38 AM Permalink
All those are worried, please sapre 20% of ur saving to spend on budding sport man. ( if u find none, keep it saving till u get one ). make sure ur kid become athelete (no cricket ) better if u can make themplay hockey :-) . Please do in courage every one to sens there kids into sports. All those "Cyber-coolies" at least develop one world class IT product out of India.
