Delhi has already moved on beyond the Commonwealth Games within the last 24 hours. Festivities are in the air and the cityscape is dotted with colourful and tastefully decorated pandals, erected specifically, to usher in the Durga Puja. Beautifully decked idols of the Goddess Durga occupy the pride of place in those pandals and pleasant hymns rent the air.
The weather is absolutely pleasant and there’s an early nip in the air, this year. The marketplace is bristling with activity and the tempo of sales has started picking up as fresh stocks have started arriving with the restriction of the entry of trucks - laden with foodstuff and other items, which were waiting outside the city limits over the last fortnight - having been lifted.
The mood of the festivities have reached our house too. In addition to the guests who’re arriving as per a schedule worked out earlier, our maid, Meena, is feverishly preparing an elaborate lunch which she’d serve to eleven little children tomorrow, as part of an age old custom, to appease the right Gods.
The coming days are going to get hectic as it will encompass visits to various places, meeting people to celebrate the festival and partaking in a few cultural activities. And this will continue till the first week of November when Deepavali will be celebrated!
Altogether a fun time and the ideal time to be at Delhi!!
Aussies, what a bad show?
As news of the vandalism resorted to by some of the Australian athletes, come in trickles, I’m surprised at the reactions of the Australian High Commission( Probably, for Peter Verghese, the High Commissioner, a second generation ‘Mallu Australian’and whose loyalty is under severe strain, it’s an unenviable situation that he finds himself in). It’s being said that the sportsmen were aggrieved by the 2-0 drubbing that our cricketers handed over to their team, the day before. I think the Aussies need to be told that, “while it’s good to win, it would be better when one is gracious in defeat”.
And that’s what true sportsman spirit is all about!!!
And then there were the Chinese checkers nay hackers.
The depressing news that certain computer users from China had hacked into the Delhi CWG website, with the sole intention of disrupting the games, brings in a wave of hatred towards that country. The culprits have been traced to research/educational institutions working in close consonance with the government.
We, as a country, had applauded China's efforts in putting up a good show at the Beijing Olympics and they do this to us! Why don't they understand that to become a superpower they need to consistently do the right things, through right means and based on their own strengths rather than by putting down another country?
I suppose ethics and fairplay do not come to bear in relationships between countries. Sad!
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