Shooting the dragon's eye



This is a moment for all Indians to feel proud of Abhinav Bindra. The son of the soil has won a gold medal in 10 m air rifle in Olympics. This is by far the first individual gold for India in Olympics. With low hopes from our sports contingent, this comes as a nice surprise. While the other ace shooters disappointed us from day 1, this gold shows that we do have the potential of competing against best in the world.

But the ecstacy of gold should not make us forget that our sports performance still remains lacklustre with tiny nations like Kenya, Iran and Ireland winning more medals than us. In sports, the two great civilizations are at extremes. On one hand, the host nation is tipped to be at no. 1 slot and on the other, a great democracy is happy and satisfied with a few medals. The 1.3 billion strong nation places sports on a low priority. It is this developing nation where a few good performances bring so much money to the players that they forget all about sports.

Not to sound pessimistic, I sincerely hope India wins more medals and we honor more heroes. (see Poll).The opening ceremony in Beijing was spectacular, though I didn't get the opportunity to watch it live. The Communist government had worked a lot to present before the 4 billion viewers watching this ceremony, a modern, vibrant and friendly China. Whether it succeeded in its efforts is another issue, there are a few lessons, our country (officials visiting China solely for this purpose) could learn to make Commonwealth Games 2010 a memorable experience for visitors.



I recently read an article indicating that English is still a problem for Chinese. Thankfully, we Indians enjoy comfort in English. But is English-speaking people all we could present to tourists ? When one looks at London, New York or Beijing, s/he is mesmerised by serene water surrounding the city. But if we were to look in Delhi, the city hosting the Commonwealth Games 2010, one is reminded of the sorry state of Yamuna. The work on integrated transport system is still to be completed and so is the sports infrastructure. Hope good sense prevails over government soon and save us from shame.

Olympics reminded me of a trailer, I saw recently watching 'Singh is Kinng' (an entertaining movie slated to break all box office records ). The Bollywood has certainly expanded its domain worldwide with increasing percentage of earning coming through overseas. The trailer I mentioned is of another movie of akki, to be released by end of this year. CC2C (Chandani Chowk to China) as it is called on the face of it looked nice to me . Waiting to watch this movie and see the two great civilizations meet.

For now the show is on in Beijing ...




PS :- I am not very good at sports though I would like any other Indian wish India to win more medals.
PPS :- India v/s China, is a topic, I have always been interested in since Atal Bihari Vajpayees's Shining India times. I would like my readers to comment on it.
PPPS :- You can probably expect a new post by 'स्वतंत्रता दिवस'

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