Saturday, September 4, 2010

Today's happenings

Ignominy, thy name is cricket!

I’d not like to go into the sordid saga of match fixing and the unholy alliance between players and bookies to make a fast buck, as details of the Pakistani team’s misdemeanour keep tumbling out every day. And as someone had said it, many of the players are in the game not because they love it but for the money, wine and women!
The good thing that will come about, at the end of all this madness, is that the craze about the game prevalent as of now will die and the hype will be tempered. Cricket will just be any other game and that metamorphosis will be good in the long run.
A gentleman’s game has degenerated into a fraudster’s game. What a fall?


The brashness of Bangalore's Commissioner of Police

How can a person in authority and someone on whom every ordinary citizen looks for safety, security and succour during times of crisis ever utter anything irresponsible? His taunt - to a question posed by the media regarding the brutality committed on a young girl by a cop, under his charge, was that they should be thankful that it wasn't a case of rape - is simply not acceptable. The dignity of the office needs to be upheld at all times.


Saina's hasty retraction

Why did the star badminton player retract her adverse comments on the stadia, prepared for the Commonwealth Games, by the end of the day? Pressure from the powers that be, for sure. Why can't we bear to hear some honest criticism? A couple of weeks from now, when similar if not more vitriolic comments come from the foreign athletes, how do we sort them out? Gag them?

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