The Sh(G)ames

Just recently I saw a video in Facebook about India, like, all the great stuffs about India and Indians and that we should feel proud of it and all that "father of surgery, Algebra, Pythagoras theorem, largest GDP.....crap crap crap" things. The video has the background score of "Ye jo desh hein thera", by A R Rahman from the film Swadesh, that makes you really proud to be an Indian............or does it???
Well I was and am really sorry, but it does not make me feel so ........its just because we cannot rest on our laurels which were achieved some 1000 or so years back.........just see where we are with respect to the Common Wealth Games or the Indian Premier League, or the case of Kashmir or the RTI(Right to Information) Act...........why are we(Indians) so unreflective and unthinking when it comes to our own country's issues??

Politicians have made corruption a habit, a hobby or a duty, which if unaccomplished will be like a "talk of the town" between themselves, just like how it will be if a late-teenage guy or girl will be when he or she is a virgin in the western countries. At one side the US reports that India is the third most powerful nation in the world after US itself and China. Japan, Russia all are behind us. But at the other sides we hear all about Common Wealth Games Scam, viz a viz, leaky roofs of stadiums still under repair and construction, poor unhygienic conditions in the Games village, unknown persons shooting at foreign tourists, a bridge collapse, champions and top athletes pulling out of the tournament siting security reasons, a traffic Armageddon, car bombs, a snake found in one of the CWG Village rooms, bed-collapse and what not??  The CWG has been a shame for India so far.

Kalmadi and team has seen the chairing of CWG as a fishing rod with which he can catch all our taxes and put them in his basket. Crores and crores have been wasted...sorry, eaten up by the committee. The irregularities in many of the deals made with different firms for CWG just shows everything. Kalmadi has hired treadmills for rent at an amount of a whooping Rs. 9,75,000 per piece. It doesn't stop here, toilet paper rolls for Rs.4,138!!!, Liquid soap dispenser at Rs. 3397 while the best one in the market is available for Rs.460. Computers rented at Rs.89,502 per piece, well, for that price, I would have bought 4 computer systems and given them to each of my cousin brothers.....LOL. He must have pocketed anything near to 1000 crores, and I don't know if this is just the tip of the iceberg!!

India could have taken this opportunity to showcase its organizing capabilities and extend its cordial warmth to the world and match China or South-Africa in that matter, but it has made a mockery of itself. There is nothing that we can do now but try to conduct the Games in a peaceful and incorruptible manner.

Most of you guys who are reading this post now might be thinking why am being so negative in my view on CWG. But, I would like to state that its not being negative or positive, but its being REALISTIC. Should all of us keep mum when our country is being let-down by a few (oops, sorry....not few but many) so called Politicians who like to play the DIRTY GAME(S).....