3 Cheers for Abhinav Bindra

Extremely proud moment for India. Abhinav Bindra has won gold in 10m air rifle gold.

Cricket swallowed all other games in India

While i was casually skimming some of the magazines at the local Border's store, i saw a very interesting cover story "Wall street has swallowed economy". Unrelated to this story, however when i was going through this weeks "Time" magazine, i saw a list of potential candidates for Olympic medal. And here i started looking for a person from india. There were names from every country. Ofcourse there were more people from China, USA and Russia. There was a name from Iraq too. This is simply amazing giving the life threatening situation in Iraq. I would have been completely sad if i were unable to find what i was looking for. To my rescue there was one name. Rajyawardhan Rathode. I took a sigh of relief. But then i started wondering. Why is it that there is only one name. In other field, i can easily find the name of one indian in a group of ten (a bit modest estimate). The only answer came to my mind is the indian obsessiveness with Cricket. Cricket players at national level are like icons in the country. They are worshipped like Gods. It is not that they should not be treated good. But that doesn't mean this is the only game. Hockey is our national game. Once champions, today we are nowhere in the world arena. In events like swimming, boxing, gymnastics etc it is hard to find any name. Why is that. Indian government has to provide proper facilities, encouragement to other sports too. And we the common man should also start developing taste for other games. We shouldn't be sweating and cursing if India is loosing to Pakistan in a cricket match. After all it is just a game. For me i will try to keep a track record of other successful sportsperson .