A broken hole in Indian Sports Culture
Being surrounded by sports all my life playing and watching various sporting events. I feel sad to find the condition of Indian sports: the infrastructure, facilities, emotional support, all slowly being diminished day by day. The news about Messi visiting India and the sum of money pumped in by the sponsors, which although are not government entities will not do anything in Indian sport is merely lack of intent and pure dishonesty with the whole system. And this does not imply that I have a problem of Messi visiting India but the very problems are left intact without any drastic solution. And it does not mean that we do not have money but apparently our priorities are lost. And what annoys me the most about it all these India house that was in display last year during the Olympics and spilling the limelight on the Ambani’s when our own sportsmen were pushed. In India, everything of the rich appears to demonstrate their wealth and be in the headlines at any given time. This is coming...
