Winter Olympics: Indian team needs funds to wear good Uniforms!

Indian Cricket Team regained No.1 position in Test. I think everyone must have felt very proud and great for beating SA with an innings to achieve this. But I think very few know that India is taking part in Winter Olympic 2010. But still we wont feel guilty or embarrassed for not knowing this. How many people cares if other sports were obsessed by Cricket.

Regarding this obsession I have blogged here.India participated in 2006 Winter Olympic with 4 athletes in 5 events, which in current Olympic reduced 3 athletes and 3 events. Still no media taken enough effort to highlight this to the public. Worst part is our team were not having enough fund even to have uniforms!Link, Link Are you not yet getting ashamed? And where media reporting this shameful news? If our so called heroes (not more than celebrities) have to go to full body scan in international airports in any foreign nation its get highlighted such that our nation's sentiments were get hurt. The media will be race to add masalas like Muslim name, Asia's Country etc only to spice up and increase TRP. Why only blame the media, it is no longer 4th element of Constitution it is just an utility of exploitation of people's mindset and using/creating NEWS for business purpose not more than that. So it is us who are responsible for all the embarrassment and shame that our representative athletes faces in such Global Events.

Add to this one more thing hurting is that adds, where the celebrities are required for getting basic support for the national game of a nation!! What must be the hockey team may be thinking when the people who are supporting on ground or off ground are just following the Cricketers, Celebrities add on TV. It shows how worst are we treating our national game. Now Hero Honda is sponsoring those adds since increase in support and viewer-ship increases its publicity and revenue. That is really encouraging and before people start debating on replacing hockey with Cricket as national game atleast they are bringing it up.

But had the world Cup been outside India how much you support it? That shows how much are we loving the true sports. This year we are hosting commonwealth games. I hope we still not be requiring adds to make us watch the game and give basic support to our sportsmen.

Vande Mataram

Sport News: Not Breaking Cricket News!

Indian Woman Grand Master Koneru Hampy defeats Grand Master Vlastimil Hort in the sixth round of the CzechRepublic Invitational International Chess Tournament Link . The article in link explains briefly about the moves she made which made her to win. Sports Person of the Year Saina Nehwal entered to semis World Super Series Masters Final.Link.Along with her Jwala Gutta and Diju V had also reached semis in mixed double. Indian foot ball team is now on a very important tournament. Why? SAFF Cup 2009

Of course I am not giving any sports update! I am just trying to make your attention on SPORT news of India which for obvious reason you might have missed today! And I got these links after I read the news in Kannada daily news paper Vijaya Karnataka and Googled it for quite long stretch.

My point is not only to make you read this but to review our self on our attitude towards sports of our country. When we won 3 medals in last Olympics we were celebrating and overwhelmed as if it was the most we could expect. And we also ranted in our regular chatting that we have very less world class talents, have pathetic support of our Government to these sports compare to other nation, also applauded to the performances and records made by foreign sports persons in Olympics. Not surprisingly our team of our national Game (Hockey not Cricket!) was not able even to qualify for last World Cup and Olympic as well was not making us shame than our Cricket team hopeless exit in the Last One Day World Cup.

Now our media have brainwashed our mind so badly that Cricket now no longer left as a Sport. It is just an entertainment that has obsessed such that we do not understand the very definition of Playing Sport. If I do not know Captain of Indian Hockey Team it is ok, but if I do not know current match batting line up it is a big mistake that I am not following the Religion called Cricket!

I do not hate cricket. But at the same because of it if other Sports were suppressed to the extent where their survival is becoming a struggle then it can not be supported to that extent.

Being the second largest man powered nation we fail to excel in the world of sports. Where as China become the King of last Olympic. Even the small countries were well above us in the medal list whose population does not exceed the population of Kerala. Not only in Olympic even in other tournaments also we could not produce players/athletes who can capture the Sport world. And in team games like foot ball, hockey we could not even qualify to the world cup.

The reasons are well known and it is always debated in news channels, news papers, blogs, forums etc whenever our Sport Persons excel in-spite of lots of de-motivating factors. Most of us gets bored and frustrated and are forced to change channels as every time same thing repeats. The responsible people whose effort is required to continue the winning glory of that sports further are either obsessed by corruption, politics or by cricket! We the people always try to find escape path by blaming government, sports federations and media. But are we really have nothing to do with it?

It is us who religiously follow each and every statistics of cricketers and we go upto the extent of their personal life by gossips in media but never bother about other sports. When we want to play outside it is us who opt for a bat and ball with 3 sticks. It is us who frames our coming generation to have definition of game as cricket only by watching it, discussing it, following it, worshipping it more than required. It is us who always finds no career in athletes and Sports and also does not stop from advising same to de-motivate other people. It is us who does not have the passion towards the real sports and tries to fit it into world of entertainment.

The news lines which I have shared here on first paragraph are as important and worth to keep information as Sehwag’s missing world record. Till we have such equal feelings we can not hope our country to dominate in Sports World. Every Indian must have the same desire to own the world cup of hockey/foot ball as it is for cricket then only our players can reach to the top and conquer it. Unless we understand the need of change of our attitude towards sports and have balanced love for all sport our athletes will not able to put effort to excel. If we do not follow up the news of corruption and politics in sports federation and if we do not dare to ask for the support needed for our sports persons then neither sports federations nor will government give the support which our sports person deserved.

So next time while watching a cricket match make sure that you are not forced to watch because of obsession.

Let us be the part of creating the sports person who will conquer the Sports World tomorrow and make us feel proud. The common wealth game we are hosting will only make us feel proud and great when we will be on top of the list, is it not? For that every Indians has to do his/her part. Let us show the world the spirit of 100 crore people!

Vande Mataram

India in Olympic 2008: Beginning of new era of Sports?

Who says we lack innovation?

Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology. Why media is not showing the true potential of us. Really surprised and annoyed by the stance of market oriented media. Anyhow Hat's off to Mistry!!

Also go through his other innovative projects. Link

An unsung Revolutionary for Freedom of India

Have you heard/read of Gadar party in any corner of boring mugged up history books of school days? Or in any small column of a news paper?

Well, I am not talking about any of the present political parties.

Here is their advertisement

Remuneration :	Death
Reward :	Martyrdom
Pension :	Freedom
Field of work :	Hindustan

Do you dare to join it?

It was the party whose activities shook the mighty British during First World War. The man behind this courageous and amazing activity was Lala Haradayal. Yesterday it was his 125th birthday. A dedicated soldier of Freedom of India. Link. Yet we fail at least to remember and recall. More worrying is only few know about this great son of Bharat who had chosen the path of struggle for freedom leaving the lavish life aside.

Young Lala Hardayal who went to London for higher studies and then to become ICS (Same Like IAS/IPS) had left path of easy going life and started living for the cause of freedom of India. He then form a group of revolutionaries and started a party called "Gadar Party".

Excerps from Link

"The party was built around the weekly paper The Ghadar, which carried the caption on the masthead: Angrezi Raj Ka Dushman (an enemy of the British rule). "Wanted brave soldiers", the Ghadar declared, "to stir up rebellion in India. Pay-death; Price-martyrdom; Pension-liberty; Field of battle-India". The ideology of the party was strongly secular. In the words of Sohan Singh Bhakna, who later became a major peasant leader of the Punjab: "We were not Sikhs or Punjabis. Our religion was patriotism". The first issue of The Ghadar, was published from San Francisco on November 1, 1913."

Gadar Party was first of its kind to start armed war against Britishers in foreign land.

Here are some of the links of knowledge of great effort this party towards struggle of freedom.

Gaddar Party/Movement

Ghadar Party

Understanding revolutionary idol Lala Hardayal

Gadar Party- Indian Revolutionary Organisation

I hardly remember these inspiring stories being mentioned in any of so called history books that I have studied in my school days. My question to those who prepare the history books are

What made you to believe that the stories of such sacrificing great revolutionaries are not worthy compare to glory of Moguls and Britishers?

Why are trying to impose the thought that Gandhian principles only gave freedom India hiding the whole set of facts?

How dare are you to scrap the though of revolution and armed struggle against Britishers which had also great effort in making Britishers to move out of India?

Do you have the real spirit of a unbiased historian?

All these stories of works of these great men shows us the one thing i.e. war for freedom was not a short story starting and ending with Gandhi, Ahimsa and Congress alone. It is very long story ever in the world of struggle for freedom of many organisations, parties and great revolutionary ideas and people behind it.

In total our freedom does not come for free. Let us not take things for granted, at least when it matters the nation.

Vande Mataram

2nd October: Not another Hoilday

Today is the 2nd October, a long waited holiday! Yet since it is one of the days in which we try to pretend to be nationalist by talking something of freedom struggle from our lost memory. And this day is most popularly known as Gandhi Jayanthi. But many people did not know the fact that this day is also gave one more great son to our nation Lal Bahadur Shastri on 1904. Isn't it feeling guilty in some part of heart?

The life of Shastriji itself is inspiring,motivating one. Brought up as an orphan he manages to excel everywhere by his great values and unshakable determinant adherence to it. And in Kashi Vidyapeeth he was senior of Chandrashekhar Azad

The Short yet with highest value of selflessness and self respect is the kind of person Shastriji was. The only prime minister who lived in a rented house. Add to that when he become Home minister he didn't had better clothes to wear! He borrowed from Nehru!! Second Prime Minister of India who has given the nara "Jai Jawan Jai Kisan" the heart beat of Modern India's growth in simple words.

This Excerpts from The Hindu Article touches the heart and shows how pure and determinant was Shastriji.

"Once when Shastri was in jail, he received the news that his daughter fell ill. He requested the jailer to release him on parole to attend to his daughter. The jailer granted him 15 days parole.

On reaching home, he learnt that his daughter had died. He performed the last rites of his daughter and told his family members that he was going back to the jail. When they reminded him that he was granted 15 days parole, he said, "That was to attend to my sick daughter. But when she is no more, there is no reason for me to take leave."

After Independence and during his Prime Ministership when Pakistani army guided by Ayub Khan entered Kashmir in 1961 to capture it Shastriji replied back saying "Ham hatyoronka javab hatyaronse denge". It was worse food crisis time and USA stopped supplying the wheat (low quality though!) because of not letting it to intervene the war. But Shastriji in a speech in Delhi asked countrymen to do upavas (Fasting) on Monday to save the food. It is the selfless highly moral Shastriji's personality that made whole nation united to cut the food consumption on Monday. Even the hotels were kept closed!! Such was iron man Shastriji !!

Here are some of links which I found read worthy.

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Mystery in Death of Lal Bahadur Shastri

In the present era of politics where ethics, moral values were just thrown away due to "impracticality"the Shastriji's life stands as role model.Today we see we failed to keep his words "Hail to Soldiers Hail to Farmers" so now we are in a situation of threat both in terms of internal and external security as well as food security, threat to the very basic needs to enjoy the freedom!!

But we continue to be ignorant, continue to be under mask of foolish non-violence where we have to pray everyday not to be a victim of any bomb blast! or feeling lucky enough of not living in Kashmir, Arunachal Pradesh and other north-east states. We are not worried of issues of Army men because they are not part of our "civilised society" where some stupid reality shows are watched to track every snitch of show-off celebrities.

We are not going to protest for farmers who are loosing their land as well as livelihood in the name of development, they are loosing crops, not getting fair rates for their yield. Who is going to the farmers to give him valuable information on recent researches and development in agriculture? Everyone is satisfied or correctly trying to get satisfied in a 2BHK house in a city.

All these ignorance will going to make our life hell soon. It has already begun. Every other week we hear incursion in LOC in Kashmir by Pakistanis, LAC in North East region by Chinese. Several great jawans are becoming victims of our silent and "non-violence"whose bravery was diminished. 26/11 exposed how vulnerable every Indian is.

Food rates are reaching sky but at the same time farmers suicide continues. The black market techniques of MNCs and Malls are known to everyone but still who wants to bother to it? This year rain ruined everything that comes out from earth to make our food. Who is worrying about farmers who can not able to get daily bread even though we get paying high for"imported" Brand Food?

We have to wake up.Today is 105th Birth Anniversary of Shastriji. This holiday is not meant for some weekend masthi, party but is for us to get ideals from the person who built our nation to be the part of building Great Self-Reliable Strong Bharat.

Vande Mataram

Of Delhi Blasts: Be Pro-Active

Exactly a year back these times were spent with tensions, anxiety, musings and rantings over the bomb blast that shocked the nation. Because it was targeted on our capital itself, the capital of one of strongest military forced country. It's been a year since the challenge that has been given by the terrorists group like Indian Mujahuddin and still the south Asian so called God Father is not yet answered yet Link. Worse is that after this incident the extremists have not felt any kind of hesitation or fear in attacking more cities even openly hacking into our technical systems too. Added to their fearlessness more clearly our cowardliness they even encountered us in face to face to attack and handful of men ruined more than thousands of Elite secured family in our commercial capital itself.

And today what are we doing? Like the kids fight we are now complaining to Great Father USA to talk in our favor and to punish the other kid Pakistan. And both our external affairs ministers are busy in settling their accommodation in Delhi!!. But how effectively and strongly these two highly qualified diplomats are giving the replies to all attacks that happens inside and outside of our nation to our countrymen? Every time we see only diplomatic words which are only meant to keep the "Peace Loving Nation" tag at the cost of lives of us. What are going to achieve from this?

If USA which feels threat from 6000 Km far Pakistan and can attack, what makes us from getting step back when enemy is already inside our territory and destroying us step by step? Every now and then our great Jawans are dying because of not having the Delhi sign to pro-act to the attack on them and have option either to become a dumb Martyr or if survived without any harm then to wait until the next deadly attack. What motive does the nation and government is providing to the people who are ready for any level of sacrifice to safeguard our nation? We are not able to make their social life prosperous so that they have no worry on their life in our society and even worse we are not able to give the simple thing "The Respectful Place" in our civilized society. And simply the advertisements can not make anybody motivated to join army with such situations are to be faced within and out of Armed force. Isn't it lack of responsibility from ourside?

But it seems we the people only awakes only when a bomb blasts and that too within our own confined India. We are not feeling anxiety over blasts in Srinagar, Rockets in Panjab territory of India, attacks in Assam by Budo,ULFA, Chinese army intruding into Arunachal Pradesh and claiming it openly as it is their own territory, naxal attacks in AP, Jharkhad, Karnataka, Orissa because we feel nothing is going to harm our peaceful life. We feel so because we are forced to feel so or sometimes I feel we are feared of the feeling other way i.e. fighting with the fear itself. And there is no surprise our own elected people reflect the same nature while facing the real challenges. Gone are the days when a 14 year boy says "Mera naam Azad hai" infront of Judge and a 23 youth questions the way of governance and asks for Inquilab. The governance may have changed but not all the situations. The methods may have to be changed but not the cause i.e. fight for righteous thing.

These days our nation is getting good names in terms of stable economy, many wins in sports world and people of India are now finding the existence of real sports outside cricket world. Our first moon mission given lots of hopes in technology field and so on to show us that we are emerging. But that itself is not sufficient compare to second largest man powered nation. We should feel the citizens of emerging super power nation. We should be pro-active rather than just reactive and feeling safe and this applies to everything in our life. That's how the big nations became big and that's how we should be making.

On this day when our nation was targeted by some extremists who feel world belongs to them we shall prove them wrong by taking initiatives and putting strong moves rather than mere dialogues. Let us do it

Vande Mataram

Heroes of Freedom:Are we(Civilians) really Serious towards Men in Uniform?

I Know it is bit late to share these. But these issues are not some "Feel Good", "Topic of Discussion to show you think something of the DAY". So I am sharing the videos of the show aired on Times Now on Independence Day and second time on next day. Do not only watch and think, let us start doing something!!

I have no special words to add to explain their love towards nation, passion and loyalty towards their duty and courage towards winning the situation. It is because of them we breath air freely and proudly say "We Are Indians". It is our duty to give them what they deserve before they ask for it. And it is real shame to us when they were suppose to ask the minimum they could expect from us "THE RESPECT".