September 2010
"I will be very unhappy if the Commonwealth Games are successful because then they (the organisers) will start claiming to host Asian Games, Olympic Games and all these.”, said former sports minister Mani Shankar Aiyar. The statement speaks volumes about the ‘patriotism’ of the leaders of our country. This is an indication of how very united India is, just 45 days before the Games.
Agreed, that the Commonwealth Games is inching closer to being a faux pas rather than bearing the hallmark of success for India but can’t we Indians, take an optimistic approach and liquidate our accusations against the Sheila Dixit government. A bunch of corrupt personnel doesn’t make the whole system fraud. The frustrated lady CM ended up saying –“Aap mujhe jail bhejna chahte hain kya?”
Recently, I read this novel by Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol. The adrenaline laced, exhilarating book talks immensely about Noetic Science (for all those who haven’t heard the term before, it is a branch of philosophy concerned with the study of mind and intuition). It said that a unidirectional nature of thought process from the masses can shift the substructures of any physical, real world process towards that thought process. Re-read what I have written to grasp the true meaning of the statement. So, if we people coalesce and hope for the Games’ speedy recuperation, I am sure Delhi can show a gleaming face to the world, in October.
Flashback 1,2,3………a few years down the line, did Delhi have a world class airport, more than 100 km of Metro network, the all new City Airport Terminal, the DTC’s green and red busses, the state-of-art stadia, red-light free Ring Roads…….its a Nile size list? In preparation, the Indian government has allocated a generous budget of well over US$1.6 billion – the largest yet for the Commonwealth Games (CWG) – to prepare the infrastructure and spruce up the capital ahead of the games. People are forgetting that CWG project has indeed given the capital a plethora of services. Can’t the people just take pride in what the project is giving the nation?
If the people continue with their flapdoodle, they will be proving that India has cities but no citizens. I can just add what Harvey Dent said in The Dark Knight – “Night is darkest just before dawn, and the dawn is coming.” So let us unite to rename Beijing 2008 to Delhi 2010!
"I will be very unhappy if the Commonwealth Games are successful because then they (the organisers) will start claiming to host Asian Games, Olympic Games and all these.”, said former sports minister Mani Shankar Aiyar. The statement speaks volumes about the ‘patriotism’ of the leaders of our country. This is an indication of how very united India is, just 45 days before the Games.
Agreed, that the Commonwealth Games is inching closer to being a faux pas rather than bearing the hallmark of success for India but can’t we Indians, take an optimistic approach and liquidate our accusations against the Sheila Dixit government. A bunch of corrupt personnel doesn’t make the whole system fraud. The frustrated lady CM ended up saying –“Aap mujhe jail bhejna chahte hain kya?”
Recently, I read this novel by Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol. The adrenaline laced, exhilarating book talks immensely about Noetic Science (for all those who haven’t heard the term before, it is a branch of philosophy concerned with the study of mind and intuition). It said that a unidirectional nature of thought process from the masses can shift the substructures of any physical, real world process towards that thought process. Re-read what I have written to grasp the true meaning of the statement. So, if we people coalesce and hope for the Games’ speedy recuperation, I am sure Delhi can show a gleaming face to the world, in October.
Flashback 1,2,3………a few years down the line, did Delhi have a world class airport, more than 100 km of Metro network, the all new City Airport Terminal, the DTC’s green and red busses, the state-of-art stadia, red-light free Ring Roads…….its a Nile size list? In preparation, the Indian government has allocated a generous budget of well over US$1.6 billion – the largest yet for the Commonwealth Games (CWG) – to prepare the infrastructure and spruce up the capital ahead of the games. People are forgetting that CWG project has indeed given the capital a plethora of services. Can’t the people just take pride in what the project is giving the nation?
If the people continue with their flapdoodle, they will be proving that India has cities but no citizens. I can just add what Harvey Dent said in The Dark Knight – “Night is darkest just before dawn, and the dawn is coming.” So let us unite to rename Beijing 2008 to Delhi 2010!
