It would be blasphemous to blog abt anything other than Commonwealth games...Indian officials have succeeded in fooling our colonial rulers leaving them scampering for cover....Now, we in India can either pray like Mani Shankar Aiyar that CWG ends up a disaster else Kalmadi would bid for Olympics next OR pray like an eternal optimist patriotic Indian that 'all izz well' and we'll do it Somehow-in-Time(remember that's SHIT)!!.
Since ages, we've all been brought up on staple diet of 'thoda adjust kar lijiye' or 'chalta hai' type statements and been fed with rationale for everything :
If roads have potholes then drive slow..it anyway prevents accidents,
If u r tired of traffic jams wake up and leave for office early..its anyway gud to wake up early,
If u don't get parking then who asked to buy a sedan u shud have purchased some smallcar/hatchback..it anyway gives gud mileage,
If u find public transport crowded or tiring then go buy a car..car is anyway middle class dream, If u don't get good water supply go buy a 20-litre Bisleri everyweek..its anyway gud to be safe than sorry later,
If u don't get good job go give some hefty bribe...if u won't someone else wud give,
If u don't get 24/7 electricity go and ask for a load shedding schedule that wud bring down shock value
If u die in a terrorist strike don't be too sad..its anyway all pre-decided by god when one has to leave this world...the list is endless. This magnifies our successive government's apathy towards its basic responsibilities towards its people. Thanks to media, we can now ask questions.
We(that includes me ) too are generally reactive rather than proactive in life reacting decisively only when pushed to the brink or something affects us too not only others...and this holds true even for our government. Analogically, the only way out of all this mess is some real shocking accident with some big politician or elite class happening every quarter in a year. Consider this..Terrorist strike at Hotel Taj was only incident successful in somewat waking up government when it had forgotten all about earlier blasts at Mumbai, Delhi, Jaipur, Varanasi, Assam....Only a stone pelting frenzy was able to wake up centre and the flamboyant weakling Umar abdullah about real problems in Kashmir...Only an 11 day event can force govt into understanding and doing something what people have been asking for decades - a good infrastructure...Only a clutch of farmers violent strike at was able to wake up UP govt. and bring a new Land acquisition Act...So increasingly it seems going big, shocking, violent or even international is the only way out..
Still, I have a light heart for most things. Here are some headlines which I would love to see pre or post CWG :
- Rahul Gandhi's convoy falls into a large crater at posh delhi road. He's still untraceable. Municipal authorities suspect his car may have gone down the drain, literally.
- Ceiling falls on foreign spectators head but no one was hurt because luckily, the quality of tiles were very poor. Organizers have got atleast something right !!
- Kalmadi is lynched by a mob of foreign athletes. He's recuperating at nearby hospital after the crowd left him in a pool of blood. He was taken to hospital by his friend M.S. Gill.
- Mike Fennel and Cooper have been found absconding. All the 9000 rooms in commonwealth village are being searched extensively.
- Arindam Chaudhuri just released his book titled 'Dare to think beyond Cricket'
- Salman Khan has said in a recent interview with leading channel that 'Kalmadi is the real Dabangg'
- Leading corporates have complained to the PMO that CWG organizers are illegally using their names as sponsors of the event though they have pulled out and not even paid any money to the organizers.
- Many athletes had to be hospitalized after watching late night movies on LCDs in their rooms. Sources say movie CDs kept in rooms were of 'Rok sako toh rok lo', 'Kambakht Ishq', Chandni chowk to China, Veer, and also higly misleading named 'Housefull'..
I'll wind up with an interesting breaking news that's flashing live infront of me on Zee TV...250 dogs caught in Khelgaon in 3 days !!
