India is a developing country. Focus on the word developing as India is not yet developed. Ironically, India is a country which is, on one hand struggling with the problem of poverty since the time of independence while on the other hand is spending millions on the Commonwealth Games! Forty percent of India’s population is below the poverty line which clearly indicates...
Cricket in India is nothing short of a religion. Especially after the recent success that the team has garnered, it is bound to be elevated to such a level. Yet as they say, there is always a positive and negative effect of everything. We have seen the positive, the negative is that it over-shadows other sports by its presence, our national game hockey, too is not an...
With the commonwealth games right next door, and Delhi getting all cleaned up for the participants with apartments and stadiums being built, there is a hypocrisy that has very surprisingly not hit us yet. Do we, as Indians, who don’t even know about each local sport played in our country, have the right to acknowledge international sportsmen? There are innumerable sports...
The Sports sector in India represents a vast chunk of under utilized talent. India is a huge country and our past clearly shows presence of immense talent lying in all parts of the country. In the past we have produced brilliant sportsmen that the world remembers till today,
We were all looking at the 2008 Beijing Olympics as one more to go down the history with just a Bronze or Silver in front of India’s proudly accentuated name in the country list. With Hockey, Boxing and other main sports getting a leeway as compared to the other lesser known sports, a sudden gold medal made us all sit up and switch to more sensible news on our television...
I was turning down the pages of a renowned year book and to my utter disappointment I could not find a glimpse of the word archery in sports section. The world has entirely set to the grandiose sports like cricket, lawn tennis, formula one, chess
With approximately 493 days to go for the Commonwealth games to be held in Delhi, India is boosting up as a sporting nation. Athletes such as ace shooter Abhinav Bindra, boxer Vijendra kumar and wrestler Sushil Kumar who won
The Commonwealth Games to be hosted by India in 2010 is going to have 5000 athletes participating from 53 countries. But sadly, one fears if we are ready for them. A lot of money has already been spent and much more is going to be lost in the whirlpool of corruption this time around.
Do the CW Games in 2010 have anything to do with Delhi’s environment? A lot. These Games will bring to India not only tourism, infrastructure, wealth and profits, but also pollution, traffic jams and deforestation. Delhi, already under the strain of high levels of haze and smog, will be further blinded.
With the immaculate preparation and jaw dropping infrastructure that reflected years of attention to detail, the Beijing Olympics have set new standards not only for the Olympics, but also for the ‘Poor Man’s Olympics’, as the Commonwealth Games are often called.
The Commonwealth is primarily an organization in which countries with diverse economic backgrounds have an opportunity for close and equal interaction. The primary focus of the Commonwealth is to create an atmosphere of economic co-operation between its member nations, as well as to promote democracy, human rights, and good governance in those nations.
With approximately 800 days to go for the Commonwealth Games to be held in Delhi. India is pulling up its socks and trying hard to be at par with the other nations. Athletes such as ace shooter Abhinav Bindra, boxer Vijendra kumar and wrestler Sushil Kumar, who won accolades in the recent Beijing Olympics, have heightened the expectations of the people of India and the...
Amidst commercial and economic developments and measures, there are a few new avenues that are catching global attention. Sports is one of them. Though it has been in the contention for quite some time, but it has mainly been the heart of the leisurely-mood people, or the ones who could manage leisure out of their work.
I am more than glad that we won three medals at the recently concluded Olympic Games and that a clutch of athletes came agonizingly close to a medal. However, what is troubling me is the over scripting we are doing to the wins. Haven’t we done the same when our athletes came back with the same distinctions from the Commonwealth Games and the Asian Games a few years...
With the sweltering heat and the rain playing spoilsport alternatively, the inaugural to the Commonwealth Youth Games 2008, the concert-cum-baton relay, was a well organized event.
The 2010 Commonwealth Games are all set to commence in Delhi from October 2010. Delhi, the capital of India with a population of over 15 million, is one of the largest cities in the world. Initiating such a massive project in this highly populated city is a big challenge for the government as well as the Delhiites.
Flashback to 1982. A nation anxiously waited to see if its capital New Delhi could pull off what had become a matter of national prestige: The Asian Games. Even as skeptics voiced their disbelief, a young leader was roped in to head the planning and organization. Rajiv Gandhi managed to prove his organizational skills and the Asian Games became the first platform for the...
