CommonWealth Games – One of the most dreaded words in India these days… There is hardly a day when the front page of the newspapers are not screaming some new corruption sprouting up. By the way the scam figures has more number of zeros than an average Indian can count (What was it last… 36000 Crores.. phew can we even imagine this much wealth)
They further add: We should carefully keep our mouth shut till the games get over and then all these scams will be probed and guilty parties will be brought to books. Till then all these guilty individuals can continue to do their tasks of ensuring a successful games (well we all know what further they can do in the meantime?).
Doesn’t this happen always? This national sentiment card works everytime… doesn’t it? So let me tell you what will happen? The games will get over (Hopefully by some God’s miracle they might even be a success). After that the same politicians and the Kalmadi parties will boast of the success and toast to the nation. We Indians will bask at the glory and these same individuals will become a national hero. Some might even get some national awards (Khel Ratna, Rajiv ratna, Bharat ratna which would be on top of the enough 'ratnas' they anyways accumulated on the run upto it). No questions asked…. No answers expected… the media will move onto the next corruption / scam… game over… Didn’t Peepli Live projected this in the best satire possible?
I strongly feel for once… let the Games be a flop… a Huge FLOP let it be a big embarrassment for the nation… may be then the real justice might happen… may be then some heads will be chopped off… may be next time when such a thing is attempted, people will question the initial budgets forecasted and the process of expensing them… may be then a proper committee will be formed with people who understand what it means…
Let it be a failure once and only then we might learn from it.
3 comments:
Do you really feel that if the games are a failure it would have the kind of ending that you are expecting?
The wrong doers should be punished - but not at the cost of the nation's reputation, not with the world going back to the belief that we are a nation of snake charmers and best left at that.
I agree that the same kind of details on the newspapers everyday is kind of become a routine and every time I read about these I feel ashamed but we as Indians are not the only ones who indulge in corrupt practices. If you go about digging, you will find lots of irregularities in other World events as well...including the FIFA world cup...!!
Yes you may be be right that if the games are a success probably the culprits might be boast about it but I believe that with the kind of media awareness they won't be walking scot-free. Yes it might get delayed but some of the heads will definitely roll. Again, the majority of them will probably get away but not because of the way games take place but because they will have their "contacts" in the right place.
The root of this problem is corruption and believe me it spreads not because their are people who want to take bribe but because there are people who can give bribe to get anything.
I just hope we are able to pull the games off without any security and safety incidents....Success or not - I guess we have already failed...!!!!
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Very well said
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