"पढोगे लिखोगे बनोगे नवाब
खेलोगे कूदोगे बनोगे खराब"
An old quotation in India describing the futile character of sports in comparison to study.All of us grown up by hearing the same thing. If we played more than two hours then at home there was an obvious " DE DANA DAN ". Sports are just visualized as a way of escape from study .Neither the teachers nor the parents ever bothered to scrutinize its positive effects and vital importance in every day life. Whenever watching any foreign television serial I find lots of character in them having sports as their aim .Movies like " high school musical" or "jump in" clearly reflects a much prominent sports culture in foreign .But in India how much children really think like this . For a while this kind of life may sounds very enjoyable and interesting but no one have that much gut to opt it forever.
We can't blame just the parents mentality for such poor sports culture in India .It seems funny how much round and round you go in any problem the ultimate culprit always comes out to be our government and politician .We are bragging for this time 3 olympic medals and not watching how our neighbor have developed its sport culture since its arrival in sports from 1984. We should be ashamed of this and must thank our destiny that each time some how we didn't come empty handed. In 96 Leander Paes did the job , in 00 Karnam malleshwari saved our nose and in 04 Rajyavardhan hit the deck . I haven't even heard about them before their victories . Fortunately I was reading Abhinav's blog before and after his legendary achivement and it was amusing but predictable to see his viewers changing from 3 to lakhs .But the destiny was not that much kind on Bindra and unfortunately India won a match against Sri Lanka on the same day. It was funny watching Bindra sharing half the screen with Indian cricket team in all the news channels. So in India winning one gold medal is same as winning a simple cricket match. But the situation really seems optimistic with the advent of some new talents in other almost extinct sports such as Jitendra , Akhi , Saina , Pankaj ,Yuki,Sushil and many more ....
Sania's story really seems to be a fairy tell and can be just described as...
Sania won
Sania lost after tremendous struggle
Sania lost
Sania failed to qualify
We had expected a lot from this immensely talented girl but she just got trapped in her own glamor . I feel a great fury towards media for not highlighting any of Anand's achievement . This world champ really deserve a lot of respect , cheering and screen but he never gets it.Narayan Kartikeyan has completely disappeared this days.
Few days back I met an old friend of mine who is a gymnastic player. I was immersed in a great joy when I came to know that he is now working as a gymnastic instructor and earning a handsome money. I felt embarrassed that despite being his contemporary I haven't yet started my college studies. As a student he was counted in the most dumb fellows of our class and all the teacher always used to tell him to be like me and study hard. But now all of their's logics failed and he emerged out as the most successful than all of us at present . He is making his family proud and have many achievements in his short life . I wish he represents India some day in future.
If you ask any children playing cricket what you want to become his answer will be surely " SACHIN ".But soon circumstances changes their decision. Still lots of sachin's in present kids are being killed by the ruthless hunger of their parents .Study may provide a non risky and simple solution to earn livelihood. But sports opens a much broader and glamorous life . One may cry that we have no resources but look at all those Bhiwani's boxer they also have nothing but still they are enabling our national anthem to play at all the competitions. Sushil kumar is another example. A feeling of inferiority comes watching the american and Chinese Olympics squad in comparison to our tiny 56 player squd in which lady's were wearing track suit in place of official saris. Watching the performance of Indian football team in qualifying matches I think our players mush be praying to the opponents " bhai tumne itane saare kar liye ab ek aadha hume bhi kar lene do ". Same thing is now applicable on hockey .... no one will believe watching our present performance that once our players used to goal like making runs in cricket . I accuse media utmost because they have the power of heel turn but they remain stick to cricket . Its ridiculous that madan lal is predicting about football matches also ... waah re cricket prem .... Anand or Saina's victory can be seen on a little line flashing in red for seconds .Media suffers from short term memory loss in case of other sportsman's achievements ,but Dhoni's or Yuvraj's sneezes are always highlighted for atleast 2 days . Due to Dhoni's sudden marriage lots of girls have their heart broken but some how they recovered but media seems to be still in trauma . Now they are recovering by asking questions to waiters and watchman of the hotel.
Our government must ask for some reservation for different sports team like our gymnasts, table tennis players , footballers ,even the hockey team , that they should be allow to play via reservation else they are not likely to play any major global event . But as an Indian I have to be optimistic always so till India reachers in FIFA final let us continue cheering brazil, spain or argentina or in tennis federer or nadal ..
4 comments:
Well in past there was one big problem "Sponsorship" There were no sponsors available for any kind of sports excluding Cricket a big time. Nowadays people are getting awareness. So they are sending their kids for different kind of sports. Its like every sports in India needs short time IDOL. It gives big boom for that period and particular sports comes out of in limelight from darkness. That's good for short time. Now govt has to develop infrastructure for all kind of sports. For that they have separate budget but it never reaches to the turf. In between somewhere it gets swallowed. We have to change that.
what can we expect from our government .. our our ministers are saying the common wealth game a circus .. lets see we will still win a lot of medals this years also remember Samresh jung last time :) ... i have heard about a Laxmi Mittal's trust sponsoring this unnoticable sports lets see whether more prominent peoples come forward or not
good mayank...............i am waiting for the day when india will take fifa world cup to our home.........and when hockey players will be on add. banners along with cricketers..........i love football......but as an indian i would like to cheer our national game also..every game says something....and indian govnt. should think this...........till then ..........JAI HO.........
we can't just blame the government completely ... if bhiwani's boxers can win medals , saina can do , anand can do then these others players can also they are also just reluctant to do anything .. look at our hockey team just full of politics sneaking and unsatisfied players ... our players must have to play well to attract some sponsors
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