With the count down towards the D-day of the XIX Commonwealth games 2010 rapidly decreasing, there has been a great amount of hype and violent rhetoric of blame-game going on in the media and thousands of Indian minds without sparing millions of anticipating fans world wide. Leave aside the world beyond the Indian barriers, but thousands of Indians themselves have begun relentlessly finding faults with the Organizing Committee. There might be fraud, or corruption in the massive investment towards the establishment of infrastructure for the games. But, there is a more subtler point to note before openly showcasing one's anger. Where are we going with this? Who is at fault and who is to suffer? Money spent is already spent and cannot be retrieved by unnecessary arguing.
It is highly important that we show the world what India is. The Commonwealth Games or any event of its ilk is not just an event about athletes and participants. There is a greater audience that will escalate the levels of grandeur and success. This is a great opportunity to showcase to the world, the great culture and heritage of India, the levels of development and talent inherent in the Indian community and above all, the strong ability of India to host such magnificent events. This should not be a time when we start blaming our officials and the Organizing Committee for their mishaps and mistakes. Rather, every responsible Indian rise to the cause of promoting Indian culture, cuisine, custom, technology, tradition and heritage. Instead of bursting one's anger on the status quo of the CWG, let us join hands and loud voices to call out to the world to come and taste the saga of our INCREDIBLE INDIA!. Let us get together to make a loud and clear call from a 1.2 billion Indians to the greater world that Come-What-May, we are there for them and that they would have a successful, secure, safe and comfortable trip to India, that no terrorist or radical fanatic could disrupt the proceedings of the event. The success of the Games will come to the whole of India at large rather than Mr. Kalmadi or Mrs. Sheila Dixit and failure at a much greater cost that holds India's reputation as a country at stake. And hence, what I can say is that if you cannot popularize and campaign our grand history, please do not work to defame our country. Let us begin to spread this message of support to the organizing committee and make the XIX Commonwealth Games as Indian CWG as the best among those till date.
totally in agreement with u dude :)
ReplyDeleteevn my thoughts are the same...we all know many things have gone wrong but now its not the time to go on debating but working to assure that it all goes well :):) ..and if we Indians will go on talking of its failures and other pessimist thoughts what else u can expect from others :P
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ReplyDeleteI concede your argument that the blame game and being pessimist about the futility of games at this crucial juncture will only do great damage to India's global image but clearly there are more fundamental questions which needs to answered. The decision of spending close to 30,000 crores on hosting magnificent games and that too in an non-transparent and unaccountable way and that too in a country where millions are struggling to get even the basic amenities needs to revisited. At the end of the successful completion of the games we might get accolades from across the world but remember while receiving those we are putting a deaf ear to our own people's agony. I think our actions need to be meticulously prioritized. In all these fiasco there is only one loser and that is taxpayer.Remember India can't be superpower and super-poor at the same time and you know world statistics shows India's abysmal state of poverty. We are 128th in Human development index ranking in the world but then some diplomats say, in this information era it is not the one which has better army but the one which tells a better story that wins and India is trying to tell that better story to win through spending lavishly on the CWG but the problem is the story can't be viewed in isolation from our fragile foundation and this is what people usually tend to forget.
ReplyDelete@Pankaj I agree with what you say.. statistics clearly show the poor state of Indian living standards and the absolute poverty being suffered by the Indian cattle class. But, why was this fuzz not raised not before the CWG? This is an issue of everyday concern and this uncommon and loud protest by the common man at such a large scale would have helped better at any moment. The current boycott is coming at a cost of the pride of the nation at large. It will surely affect our future bidding and we have to pay a greater price. Why was the issue of millions of poor people not raised when there were crores of scam by A. Raja or Arjun Munda? India is a democracy of the people, for the people and by the people. There is a time for everything and surely this is not a time for the protest. The Indian voter decides the destiny of the government and his anguish will obviously be catered to if its really loud and clear (but at the correct time).
ReplyDeleteYou know there is a sharp difference between what we have bid and what we are paying now for the games.On top of that there are allegations of widespread leakage in the system. Apart from that the decision of hosting the games was definitely not taken by 300 million officially declared BPL people nor by better off people like you and me. It was taken by a bunch of people to showcase India's soft power at global front but the annals of infamous events which unleashed during the preparation for it emphatically and categorically shatter the aforementioned intention.
ReplyDeleteScams in India are now a norm and no longer an exception but that doesn't give license to everyone competent enough to get indulged into it. Just because there are unfortunate incidents of scams by Raja or in IPL or in Satyam, Kalmadi doesn't get a green signal for his alleged corrupt practices. In case of Raja, a lot of politics is backing his cause. Our coalition govt is not strong enough to plunge itself into risk by acting against its ally by way of ordering an inquiry into it but evidently there are number of petitions filed against Raja in SC and requests of inquiry in PMO.But look,my point is simply this : whenever common man is briefed about all these things, the outcry is bound to happen and he comes to know when media tells him and media will only tell when something unusual happens. He often remains unaware of several pressing issues. So rather than giving a legitimacy to the actions of CWG organizing committee, it is paramount that such practices are stringently dealt with. If Indians don't protest at this time, then it actually affirm the deeds of kalmadi which they clearly don't.
And in democracy people exercise their powers once in 5 years but the govt does it quite frequently and unfortunately 5 years is too long a time which can heel any injury.