How to get over the Commonwealth Games snub: A guideline.

Dear reader, (Ahem.. I know that it’s me and me only, most of the times) before getting into the matter, let me ask you, what exactly are you looking for? A creative and innovative solution to the Commonwealth Games organizing woes? Suggestions for conducting the Games in a better way? Or lessons that we should learn from the bitter experiences? This post is, nothing of that sort.
I take great pride in being an Indian. I am a sports lover as well. If you also belong to both of these categories, there couldn’t be a tougher time for you. I am, like the most of us, embarrassed and hurt, with the controversies related with the CWG. But it is better to appreciate the positives, rather than being dejected at the negatives. The following is an attempt to implement that thinking strategy.

1.Withdrawal of athletes

CWG, is the biggest sporting event that India has ever witnessed. But many of the top class athletes have already withdrawn from it, pointing at the safety and hygiene reasons. That might look like a disappointing thing, in the first look. But, that increases our winning chances. If all the other countries pull out, we win! Commonwealth games champions! May be that was what the organizing committee had in their plans. Anyways, it didn’t work out that way, and many teams have already arrived. But still, the absence of some of the big names might help our athletes.

2.PM steps in!

You know what that means? Just when the organizing chaos was running high, our prime minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh intervened. Till then, Sheila Dikshit was announcing deadlines to announce the next deadline. Whether the PM made a change or not, I don’t know. But with all the due respect to our democracy, let me say, both our current president and prime minister are rubber stamps. Our PM is a good economist, but, never a good leader. If he was, he wouldn’t have let things go this bad.

A sardar says : I’ve been proud of the industrious nature of Sardars. I’ve never seen a Sardar begging. Alas! Just then, Dr. Manmohan Singh was made the prime minister of India.

You know what is the difference between Dr. Manmohan Singh and our local pizza store? Our local pizza store stops taking orders at 11 in the night.

These jokes sum up what I’ve got to say about our PM. But just then, the news headlines about the PM’s intervention at the CWG, gave me a feeling that he is doing something on his own. Just a feeling. But it’s better than nothing. Right?

3.DD sports in HD

Are you people aware of the fact that there is a sports channel called DD Sports? There is. Apna Doordarshan’s sports channel. The channel has been operating, very effectively, for around a decade. It has always brought high quality sporting action to us, with superb picture quality. Their programs included the live coverage of the highly exciting games like Billiards, Caroms, Kabadi etc. Inter district cricket tournament in the state of Madhya Pradesh, Three day practice match between Australia and the President’s eleven, Race between tortoises conducted in Bihar etc. were covered, enabling us to catch the nail biting action live.

Now, they are going to telecast the CWG events, that too in HD. Their obsolete equipments have been replaced, spending a huge sum of money. At least for a small period, they are going to telecast something, that people would actually watch. Thank God!

Hope these worked for you. You see more positives like these? Let me know.

P.S :- Both the jokes about Dr. Manmohan Singh were picked up from Twitter. Credit goes to the unknown authors. I, shamelessly, copied those and used them in my blog, as if they were my own creations, and hoped that no one would find out. Bad me.