Now is the time to get along with your buddies and paint your faces with the national flag. The time has come to cheer for the Men in Blue to achieve the treble (World Cup 2010 , World Cup –U 19,2012 and the ongoing World Cup T-20)

Fame is a bee. Fame is a fickle friend. Fifteen minutes of fame.
The irksome truth of such rhetoric platitudes is that fame is short-lived. Barring a few exceptions, whether it’s bollywood hotties, sylphlike supermodels, sports stars, business personages, scandalous politicians, mob hungry activists or a village child who fell into some damned bore well….the time validity of fame’s coverage is never prolonged. Those who try to protract their share of fame get loathing; plain and simple.

A game of strategy and tactics, India is actually home to the game of Chess, which was conceptualized during the Gupta Empire. But, in a country where cricket is only second to religion, Chess has no chance to attract the attention of mainstream media except for the occasional article.

Lance Armstrong is a seven time winner of the Tour de France (the most grueling cycling race in the world) and, if that weren’t impressive enough already, he gained these victories after successfully battling testicular cancer that had metastasized to his brain and lungs.

If the Olympics were stealing the spotlight until now, cricket surely covered up for the lack of attention in the recent months with the news of the retirement of V.V.S. Laxman, one of India’s most seasoned cricketers.

Every four years, the world conspires successfully to make a laughing stock out of India.
It’s called the Olympics.
It is not an exaggeration to say that India has got the most shameful record in the Olympics compared to every other nation on earth.

By the latest records, China has won 61 medals at the London Olympics, surpassing the tally of the United States [...]

Since 776 BC, the Olympics have staged the best of the athletes in the world, pitting them out against each other in a variety of competitions selecting the crème de la crème, the pinnacle of sporting perfection. Its roots as homage to god Zeus between a select few nationalities, has now sprung out into an international testament to sporting ability.

London, the only city to host the summer Olympics three times wants history to remember the 2012 Olympics as a “Green Olympics”.

Somehow football, as the Brazilians call it or soccer as the Americans call it, never found a fan following in India (except in West Bengal, Goa and Kerala) like it had in the rest of the world, even among the working class. The reasons behind that is a mystery to me, considering that this sport is capable of paying rewards that could exceed cricket and tennis by a long way. Not to mention that there is no dearth of choices when it comes to players.