BALL(?) GAME

The ugly public spat between the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) and Indian Organising Committee (OC) on display over the forthcoming Commonwealth Games scheduled to be held in Delhi next year reflects the accumulated rubbish in sports related activities.
The international bosses of the Games have been aware for long of the mess in which the preparations are – but have been nervous about putting their foot down to pull up their Indian counterparts. In fact, they have unwittingly got caught in a well planned trap set up by OC under the leadership of a politician turned sports administrator.
Now that push has come to shove and certain accepted project management tools have been imposed by CGO on OC to salvage the terrible ‘behind schedule’ status of the event – the Indian team headed by Kalmadi with his cronies (who has managed to make himself a ‘fixed asset’ for donkeys years in mismanaging Indian sports as its ‘sports mafia’) has with adroit political crookedness commenced dirty tactics.
It is a national shame that a bunch of inefficient people are permitted to treat sports related international events as their personal fiefdom and misbehave publicly by hiding behind ‘non-issues’ to jeopardize Indian reputation as a host destination.
The CGO has inadvertently given Kalmadi and his team of crooks an ‘escape route’ to justify their anticipated criminal failure to hold the games successfully.
The ‘tantrums’ for public consumption are ‘tested tactics’ to win the ‘blame game’ practiced for decades to hang on to power and mismanage resources to make a living by destroying sports and sports persons in the country.
Immediate reforms have to be introduced to remove politicians from the arena of sports management to attain India’s latent potential in sports which is evident when private enterprise and personal determination is allowed to win.

NOBEL BARACK OBAMA

On November 5 last year my post titled - A NEW PRESIDENT expressed a latent wish that Barack Obama who had the potential to change the world will be a ray of hope in the days to come.
It appears that a collective desire for peace and harmony that his Presidency managed to raise in the hearts of millions around the world has been more than justified by today’s announcement from Oslo of the Nobel Peace Prize for Barack Obama – President of the United States of America.
He deserves the heartiest congratulations from the world at large for this awesome achievement well within a year of entering the White House.
This announcement indicates that the power of good can be harnessed to make a change for a better quality of life on planet earth.
Let us once again pledge our positive thoughts in the making of a great person who has just begun to impact you, me and the world around us.
WE ARE PRIVILEGED TO WITNESS THE BARACK OBAMA PHENOMENON!!

BOMBAY MERI JAAN!!

Bombay ho gaya Mumbai – aur Raj ho gaya Raja!!
Gully ka Kutta ho gaya Sher – would be more appropriate considering the growls emanating from a goon pretending to be protector of ‘Marathi Manoos’ in the name of ‘vote bank’ politics.
It is unfortunate that our law and order structure tolerates blatant abuse of the Indian Constitution by wily power hungry individuals and governments remain dummy spectators in the drama directed by threat to life and property.
The audacity of a MNS threat and subsequent submission to it by Karan in the interest of peace and harmony is indicative of slow but steady break down of law and order.
One unpunished audacity will lead to another – the ‘Goon Brigade’ has floated a proposal to issue ‘Entry Permits’ to Indians not being a ‘Marathi Manoos’ for entering Maharashtra and obtain ‘Resident Permit’ to stay in the State?
Such utterances would immediately trigger arrest for high treason in any other law abiding country – but our tooth less system governed by spineless Ministers (who take oath in the name of protecting the Indian Constitution) prefer to only watch from the sidelines lest they get derailed from their own gravy trains.
It is distressing to note that there is not a single word of protest from any party or politician to this idea floated by Raj under the banner of his party and in the name of the 'Marathi Manoos'?