Justice for Sunil Dwivedi

आपकी जानकारी के लिए पूरी कहानी फिर से बता दें - सुनील द्विवेदी, 24, एमबीए छात्र और ऐथलीट, आईएसी लखनऊ में सक्रिय कार्यकर्ता हैं। 7 सितंबर की रात, लखनऊ के जियामऊ इलाके (हजरतगंज थाना) में एक तेज रफ्तार कार ने उन्हें टक्कर मारी और कुचल दिया। यह कार सेल्स टैक्स विभाग में डिप्टी कमिश्नर सुभाष चंद्र राम का बेटा सुधीर कुमार (34) नशे की हालत में चला रहा था। सुनील के दोस्तों ने उसे पकड़ा और थाने ले गए। पुलिस ने उसे छोड़ दिया और बाद में अज्ञात लोगों के खिलाफ केस दर्ज किया। दुर्घटनास्थल से अहम सबूत यानी कि कार (मारुति सुजूकी आल्टो UP-32 BT 5294) को भी हटा दिया गया। आरोपी पर कार्रवाई करने की बजाय पुलिस उल्टा सुनील के दोस्तों के खिलाफ लूटपाट का केस दर्ज करने की धमकी दे रही है। सुनील द्विवेदी इस वक्त दिल्ली के इंस्टीट्यूट ऑफ स्पाइनल इंजरी, वसंत कुंज में भर्ती है। सुनील के शरीर के निचले भाग निष्क्रिय हो गया है और पीठ पर कार के टायर चढ़ने से काफी चोट आई है। सुनील के पिता के सरकारी महकमे में ऊंचे पद पर होने की वजह से इस मामले में पुलिस का रवैया बेहद ढीला है। पत्रकार अनूप कुमार ने जब सुभाष चंद्र राम से फोन पर इस बारे में बात करनी चाही तो उन्होंने उसे धमकाया और पूछा कि यह खबर ने छापने की वह कितनी कीमत लेगा? कल आईएसी लखनऊ के कार्यकर्ता डीजीपी से मिलेंगे और अदालत में भी अर्जी देंगे ताकि पुलिस उनपर फर्जी केस न कर सके। इसके अलावा आरोपी सुधीर कुमार के घर के बाहर शांतिपूर्ण धरना देने की योजना भी बनाई जा रही है।

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सुभाष चंद्र राम का पता -  638/ए, 79/1, शिवाजीपुरम, गली नं. 4, सेक्टर 14, इंदिरा नगर, लखनऊ

SUNIL DWIVEDI, 24, Pursuing MBA, was returning home from friend's place when his bike ran out of petrol. He placed the bike on the left corner of the road and asked his pillion ride Murli to call someone with petrol. In this course they parked the bike and were waiting for friends, when suddenly an uncontrolled Maruti Suzuki Alto Car UP-32 BT 5294, rammed into Sunil and instantly broke his spine. Meanwhile Murli, the pillion who was standing next was saved by a whisker and he called his friends to the spot while trying to move the car away from Sunil's body which was still stuck under it. When somehow the car was moved, the door was opened and a heavily drunk man between 30-35 years age came out. He was not even able to stand properly. This man was handed over to the police and Sunil was rushed to the hospital. But the FIR lodged read "UNKNOWN" person knocked down Sunil. This was not at all acceptable by the Guys so they went to the accident spot to look for the car registration papers which could establish the identity at least. On reaching the scene, they saw that the car was being taken away and hence they intercepted the person in the car. They asked that either the car be left on the spot or taken to police station but the person was not interested in both. So the guys asked for the papers which he had no intentions to give, hence the guys opened the door of the car to lay hand on any documents which could establish the id. They found a briefcase attached with a bag. The bag had the registration papers, which read "SUBHASH CHANDRA RAM" and his address as 638/A-79/1, Shivajipuram, Lane 4, sector 14, Indira Nagar, Lucknow. The took a photostat of the papers in the morning and returned the briefcase and bag to the officer on duty. This man Subhash Chandra Ram turned out to be a Deputy Commissioner, Sales Tax posted in Lucknow and the person driving the car was his son Sudhir Kumar.


Now the police is in connivance with the bureaucrat and is harassing the guys who were witness to the case and who helped Sunil reach hospital and got the identity established and took the drunkard sudhir to police. The police is now lodging a counter FIR of robbery against these students who till now have no criminal antecedent. The purpose is to pressurise the guys to abstain from court proceedings and help the culprit go scot-free. Sunil, the victim is paralysed for life. He was an athlete and a break dancer and today, he is confined to bed, even unable to move.

Friend, father & philosopher of black money is Chidambaram : Ram Jethmalani

Chidambaram cannot get black money out of his blood. Dr Subramanian Swamy has clearly stated in his website, "I now have further information from my usually reliable sources in the Union Government that the tapping of Finance Minister Mr. Pranab Mukherjee and his close associate in the Ministry, enabled Mr. Robert Vadra the son-in-law of Ms. Sonia Gandhi and Mr. Karthik son of Mr. P. Chidambaram, to use the data thereby collected to manipulate and rig the Mumbai stock market. Earlier these data were directly provided by the then Finance Minister Mr. Chidambaram. I demand that the SEBI be asked by PM to initiate 'Insider Trading' investigation and prosecution of Mr. Vadra and Mr. Karthik."


If what is put out by Dr Subramanian Swamy is false why doesn't Chidambaram sue him?


The dark clouds of the 2G scam and the repeated evidence being given by A. Raja and other accused of his tacit involvement and other acts of omission and commission are menacingly closing in on Chidambaram. He is losing his cool, and more importantly, losing his carefully clipped English accent to its more indigenous roots more often. And like his colleague Digvijay Singh, his mind seems to be disintegrating to a stage where he has started talking gibberish. Take this, for example: in reply to the BJP demand for his resignation for his involvement in the 2G scam, Chidambaram claims that the BJP is targeting him since he initiated a probe by the NIA into Hindu terror. Can any rational person see the connection between the two?


Take also his comments regarding the recent Mumbai blasts. As Home Minister, instead of taking stock of the situation, and providing leadership, the only intelligent thing he could think of saying was, "No intelligence is not intelligence failure." Even a college debating society expects better logic. It's something like saying "illness is not a failure of health" or "impotence is not a failure of potency".



Chidambaram's special financial skills have diversified into electoral politics also. He has the distinction of having been declared defeated in the last Lok Sabha election, after which he galvanized his special skills and local machinery, in particular, a data entry operator, and doctored a marginal victory on the recount. That is quite a record for fraud. And can one forget how the Indian Bank was cleaned up and left with only non-performing assets thanks to him and his Tamil Maanila buddies?


Chidambaram's record as Home Minister has been disastrous. Neither has he made any impact on internal security, with the worst massacres of his own paramilitary forces taking place in his time, nor on terrorism, which carries on in complete complacency because there are neither effective preventive or punitive systems in place, nor political will and national legislation to combat terrorism. It is on record and in the public domain that the Home Ministry gave incorrect names of India's most wanted list of terrorists allegedly hiding in Pakistan, some of whom were tracked living in India or in custody. Is this a testament to his fabled efficiency and commitment?


What a laughing stock we must be before the world. It is almost as if India is determined that it shall not combat terrorism, shall not have enabling legislation as enacted by the US, such as the Homeland Security Act 2002, and the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 of UK and similar legislations in European governments. India is determined not to have an effective national agency on the lines of the Homeland Security Department of the US. The ramshackle National Investigation Agency showed itself as a complete failure during the recent Mumbai attacks. Understandable, because its only mandate appears to be to investigate "Hindu terror", the last refuge for failed and hopeless Congressmen like Chidambaram. The CCTNS, JIC, ARC, NTRO (presently in another scam), and NCTC remain effete, scattered and unmonitorable, even by the Home Ministry. With such an unequivocal determination by the UPA government not to address terrorism effectively, I can only grieve for my country.


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Commonwealth Games: India Whining

Gaurav BatlaAssociate Vice President (Global Payments and Cash Management)
HSBC Bank

First things first, I think the games should not have been organised in the first place. There is absolutely no explanation (financial, political, social or otherwise) for India to host CWG or any sort of an international sporting event altogether. Neither am I talking about the delay nor the corruption. Neither the International Shame that has been bestowed upon us by the dog poo in the apartment Nor the falling Foot Over Bridges. I am just asking a simple question about Priorities. Why did we have to organise these Games?

If we are trying to promote a 'sporting' culture and 'healthy living' then can anybody tell me how many Delhiites have actually visited Indira Gandhi, National, Jawahar Lal or any other stadium in the past 10 years? If you want people to take up sports, then build small sports complexes all over the city, where people can play with their families, kids can take tennis/swimming lessons and we may have a healthier/sportier generation to follow.

If we wanted to 'show the world' that we had the caliber to pull off a 'Beijing'. Who are we trying to show off to? The commonwealth nations are British ex-colonies most of which (economics wise) do not have anything to boast of anyways. Only Canada and UK have a GDP higher than us. What would it serve to host events for countries to show off our prowess to, who anyways are struggling for their economic existence? If you have money to spend, then send that money to the African nations where people are fighting AIDS and actually need that money to save those lives.

If we wanted to build better infrastructure for the urban city dwellers, then did we have to organise this 'show off' for 15 days and spend billions earned by the tax payer (especially when majority of tax receipts comes not from the builders/contractors/businessmen who don't file their tax returns but from a freaking salaried guy who gets his salary in his bank account and the Tax is already deducted at source, lest he indulges in any tax evasion)? Why not make things better for THAT guy? As a representative of THAT guy and being an 'urban delhiite', I care more about 15 mins reduction in my travel time to work and back without any traffic jams rather than a freaking stadium eating up energy in those floodlights which will be used for 15 days. When the whole locality is sitting in dark, because THEIR electricity has been provided to that stadium nearby, which they will never be able to even enter if they wanted to.

Let's get real guys. The fact is: we are laggards in almost every sport in the world. The only game we play or are 'really' bothered about is cricket. A game that is played by 10 nations in the world, 5 of them in South Asia where more than 60%(I guess) population lives in rural areas. How many of us would actually know who won the maximum number of golds in last CWG or who is the world champion in Discuss Throw, Shotput, Long Jump, High Jump, Badminton, Archery etc.

There is no shame, but just that we are not bothered about these sports (as of yet). So what do we do? Do we just ignore the people who play these games in India? Absolutely not! But have we organized CWG for THEM or in belief, that people will start participating in these games, once they have seen these sports themselves in stadiums? I don't think so. Give the hockey team players the money that is promised to them, so that the millions of children who were thinking of joining the game, do not turn away thinking 'Khana kahaan se khaunga?' If you actually care about these sports/sports persons then give the bloody money to the sports authorities/bodies for training/coaches/nutrition and build up a redressal mechanism so that you have means to 'know' if the money is actually reaching them.

Also, for all those who are thinking that the delay has been caused due to babugiri or red tapism. Think again. If we sleep for 4 years after the games are allotted to us and start working at the 11th hour, as I see it, I believe its all intentional. The delay was not caused because we are lazy, but because we wanted it to get delayed. Panic infuses a sense of 'Lets just get it done at ANY cost'. When you stop bothering about the price, you just want to get it done. May be that can explain the high prices at which materials/equipment was sourced. But hey, I don't even want to talk about the corruption in this post. Even if you forget the corruption/international shame due to delays etc for one bit, where does it make sense to build these stadiums in the first place.

For the 'urban' types who are singing song of 'Infrastructural Developments' DUE to CWG. I ask this. What if the CWG was not to be organised in Delhi. Would the government waited till the olympics to provide us with the Delhi Metro or the flyovers or better roads or better lighting etc etc. Are these happening only because CWG are being organised in Delhi? If your answer is no, then why organise it? If you are nodding, then its a shameful situation that we need to have an international gaming events and the 'sharam' that tourists will come and see our city as being dirty, so let's clean up and build some roads.

We are a country where 60% population doesn't have proper access to food, electricity, water, irrigation, roads, transport and infrastructure and we decide to spend all of 30,000 Crores on building stadiums and purchasing toilet paper for Rs 4000 per roll... What boost is this money going to give to the rural development in the country. How are these games going to change anything for the farmers/labourers committing suicides everyday? How are these going to do anything for anybody I dont understand?

For those, who are sharing pretty pictures of the 'world class stadiums' built for the CWG because we should concentrate on 'the positive' and rubbish the 'negativity' spread by the Indian media, I have a question. Why the hell media shouldn't? Isn't this what the media is for? Its not a makeup artist who would hide your acne through thick layers of make up. Its their job to show what's hidden? Who would have known of this corruption, if the media hadn't shown? Would the PM had intervened if it was reported that its all 'hunky dory' and India is 'shining'.
For those who have this 'chalo yaar, ho gaya jo hona tha, ab kam se kam duniya ko toh apna gandh na dikhao' attitude and are 'proud' of the fact that we are hosting the games. I think this is why we suffer. If a kid steals and the mom-dad hide him, he will do it again. I hope the 'kids' running our government bodies learn their lesson through this negative publicity and think thousand times before organising olympics in the next 100 years.

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What the country needs!

Tushar Kohli

A Fellow Jhel-er

What this country needs is a sporting renaissance not a sporting extravaganza which does nothing to alleviate the root cause of public dismay and apathy. Patriotism has long been an alibi for blatant corruption and unabashed loot of taxpayers' money.

I pray with fervour for a mass failure of the so called Games which the country never needed in the first place.

May the mud and slime of embarrassment splash across the face of the incumbent administration and guilty be brought to the book. I am not being a cynic but a realist. Misplaced patriotism romanticises the whole issue and covers up the guilty.

I request others to see things as they really are 8% GDP growth or 5 crore Rehman creation does nothing to fix the plague. Politicians know how to drown the cries of the common folk through the national anthem and most eat from their hands as the bigot media moves on to the next story.

Ii feel rose tinted glasses is the last thing India needs and by the looks of it INDIA seems to wear it every time a national issue gains precedence.

Where are the records of the 1 lakh crore worth of black money which Pranav Mukherjee promised to bring to light? Why do we suffer from amnesia when the country gets raped by goons in khadi. It is not about BJP or Congress or Left or Right wing ideologies.

Its about the system that is rotten beyond repair. The moral fabric of the country is in ruins. I am offering the flip side of the coin expressing my apprehensions through a different perspective without targeting India and my brethren.

China took a decade long sabbatical from international sports to hone its sports infrastructure and the result was its huge golds tally and its podium finish at Beijing. The games and the euphoria around it is a product of the feel good factor gimmick that politicians use to distract the common man when the basic sporting culture is reeling due to bureaucratic bottlenecks and nepotism.

Manipur, Kashmir, Naxalism, Floods, Drought, Hunger and Inflation is what needs immediate attention not pompous celebration of loot by the incorrigibly corrupt.

Though I mean no disrespect to the athletes and all the volunteers and hard working individuals and wish them luck for what they worked for but still I completely condemn the farcical CWG which does nothing to strengthen the sporting DNA of the country but appears to be an appeasing endevour of a govt with misplaced priorities.

It is akin to Mayawati's show of grandeur of maniacal dimensions. Ii pray that may God give insight to the common man, the middle class which bears the brunt of narcissistic agendas everytime middlemen use national pride as their excuse. Remember my brothers 'Patriotism is the last resort of the scoundrels'

As i write this i feel my national pride exit my system like sand through fingers. We need statesmen, real administrators, countless more Shridharans [The Metro Man] to salvage whats left of the nation. I pray that happens sooner than later.

JAI HIND!

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हो गया रंगारंग कार्यक्रम

रंगारंग कार्यक्रम शुरु हो गये हैं.. सारे नेता आज भव्य समारोह देख कर खुश हो गये, कार्यक्रम खत्म होने के बाद अपनी एसी लगी गाडियों मे बैठ कर अपने घर को चले जायेंगे, कुछ और लोग १००० रुपये या इस से ज्यादा की टिकट ले कर रंगारंग कार्यक्रम देखने आये होंगे, वो भी समारोह मी भव्यता देख कर ए.आर.रहमान का गाना गाते घर को चल देंगे. खिलाडी भी अपने अपने टावरो मे सोने चले जायेंगे.. इन सब से दूर एक आम आदमी अपने छोटे किराये के घर मे बैठा या फिर किसी छोटे से कमरे मे बैठा सोच रहा होगा कि अगले १२ दिन तक क्या होगा? आफिस जाने के लिये क्या योजना बनाई जाये कि बॉस की डॉट ना पडे, या देर से पहुंचने के कारण पगार ना कट जाये, उसका ध्यान अपने जीवन के खेल से नही हट पायेगा. १२ दिन बाद वो फिर से अपने दैनिक जीवन की उसी पुरानी व्यथा मे वापस लौट जायेगा जब उसे फिर से ब्लू लाइन की बस मिलनी शुरु हो जायेगी, जब उसे सडक पार करने के लिये कोई पुलिस वाला गरियायेगा नही, जब उसका प्रति दिन का आने जाने का बस का किराया फिर से १० या २० रुपये तक हो जायेगा.. उसे खेल खत्म होने से राहत मिलेगी.. और उधर एक दूसरा वर्ग  अंग्रेजी मे भारत की शान का गुणगान करता नजर आयेगा.. और उस भव्यता मे ही खो जायेगा जो उसे ३ अक्टूबर की शाम को देखने को मिली.

उसे आलू टमाटर के महंगा हो जाने से फर्क नही पडता. उसे बस ना मिलने से भी कोई चिंता नही सताती है, उसके घर का सामान मॉल से आता है.. जहां पहला वाला वर्ग घुसते हुए भी डरता है.
खेलो ने आम आदमी के जीवन मे बहुत बडा हस्तक्षेप किया है, उसके नियमित से जीवन मे बहुत सारे परिवर्तन हो गये हैं, और उसके बाद भी उसके लिये किसी के मन मे कोई संवेदना नही है. लोगो ने उसे दबा कर और उस से वसूल कर इकट्ठा किये पैसो का गुब्बारा उडाया है, कहीं पर पेड पौधे लगा दिये हैं और कहीं पर कांडोम मशीन लगा दी गयी है. आम आदमी अर्थ शास्त्र नही जानता. जब उसकी गली का दुकानदार उसे महंगा सामान देता है और पूछने पर कह्ता है कि पीछे से ही माल महंगा आ रहा है तो वो समझ नही पाता कि आखिर कहां पर आ कर सामान महंगा हो जात है. वो मुद्रा स्फीति , ग्रोथ रेट जैसे शब्द नही समझता. उसे समझने के लिये उसने एक अर्थ शास्त्री को चुन रखा है जिसे प्रधान मंत्री बनाया गया है. लेकिन उसने भी महंगाई से ज्यादा खेलो को पूरा करने के लिये हस्तक्षेप किया.
और जब आम आदमी ने  महंगाई की वजह से बंद किया था तो उसे बहुत सारा डाटा दिखा दिया गया कि उसकी  वजह से देश का कितना नुकसान हुआ, बालको की पढाई पर फर्क पडा, आफिस जाने वाले समय पर आफिस नही पहुंच सके, स्कूलो मे बच्चे नही पहुंच सके, सडक पर हम लोगो ने दंगा किया, पब्लिक प्रोपर्टी का नुकसान किया, जिसने उसका  साथ दिया उसका मजाक उडाया कि वो धूप मे गिर पडा था.. आज उस बात को कुछ महिने बीत गये हैं, जो सब कुछ करने का आरोप उसके ऊपर लगाया गया  पिछले कुछ दिनो मे वो सब सरकारी तंत्र ने किया और निर्लज्जता की सीमा तोड कर किया, और अभी अगले १३ दिन तक और करेगा. आज फिर से सडके बंद हैं फिर से स्कूल बंद हैं, फिर से लोगो को आने जाने के लिये बसे नही मिल रही हैं, फिर से बालको की पढाई का नुकसान हो रहा है, फिर से सरकारी आदमी सडक पर दंगा कर रहे हैं और २००० रुपये वसूल रहे हैं, लोगो को घरो से निकाल कर भगा दिया है लेकिन ये सब करने के बाद भी देश भक्ति का लेमनचूस भी आम आदमी को ही  दिया जा रहा है कि इसे मुंह मे डाल कर चुप चाप इस सरकारी भ्रष्टता को देखो और मुस्कुराओ..
जो प्रबंध कुशलता खेलो के आयोजन मे दिखाई जानी चाहिये थी वो अब विरोध के स्वर को दबाने के लिये दिखाई जा रही है. पहले खेलो के आयोजन का समर्थन पाने के लिये उसे देश भक्ति से जोड दिया गया, और समर्थन ना करने वालो को देश द्रोही जैसे शब्द भी सुना दिये गये. जब उस से काम नही चला तो फिर बेटी की शादी जैसा भावुक शब्द जोड कर समर्थन की आस पाने का प्रयास किया..
मीडिया को भी चकाचौंध से आकर्षित कर लिया गया है, सारे अखबारो ने  सरकारी भौंपू बन कर अपना तानपुरा बजाना शुरु कर दिया है. और पूरा विश्वास है कि अगले १३ दिन तक वो अपने सुरो मे कोई बदलाव नही करेगा.. और ये सभी सडको पर, टीवी पर, समाचारो पर, अखबारो मे हर जगह शोर मचा मचा कर कहेंगे कि भारत ने बहुत बडा काम कर दिया, एक खेल का आयोजन कर लिया. लेकिन झोपडी मे बैठे उस गरीब और मध्यम वर्ग की आवाज उस शोर मे दब कर कहीं दम तोड देगी, उसकी आवाज के साथ उसकी आशायें भी दम तोड देंगी कि कोई उसके साथ है, उसे यही लगता है कि वो अकेला है और दुनिया उस जैसे लोगो कि नही सुनती वो सिर्फ उस से वसूलती है और फिर उसे वसूल कर बडे बडे फंक्शन कराती है जिसको देखने के लिये टिकट लेना उसके बूते से बाहर की बात है. उसे सिर्फ देना है, और सहना है.. इसके अतिरिक्त उसका कोई अधिकार अब नही बचा है..

गेम्स वॉलंटियर की आपबीती

सागर पसरीजा

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टैक्सपेयर्स ऑर प्लेयर्स के बाद अब बारी वॉलंटियर्स के झेलने की है। झूठे वादे कर के बुलाया गया। और लंच तक नहीं दिया जा रहा उन्हें। 30 हजार में से सिर्फ 12000 का पुलिस वेरिफिकेशन हुआ और ड्यूटी असाइन की गई। हजारों वॉलंटियर्स ऑर्गनाइजिंग कमिटी (ओसी) और पुलिस स्टेशन के चक्कर लगा रहे हैं अपनी सेवाएं देने के लिए। ओसी वाले कहते हैं, अपना वेरिफिकेशन खुद कराओ, हम इसमें कुछ नहीं कर सकते। पुलिस कहती है, कि हमारे पास कोई सूचना नहीं है और वेरिफिकेशन के 250 रुपये मांगती है। रीबॉक कंपनी के साथ कॉन्ट्रैक्ट करके 30 हजार यूनिफॉर्म बनवाई गईं, अब 18 हजार बाकी बची वर्दियां कलमाडी खुद पहनेगा शायद।

Taxpayers n player k baad ab VOLUNTEERS ki turn h CW JHELNE KI....jhoothe vaade kr k bulaya gya...n lunch tak nhi provide kr rahe volunteers ko...30,000 me se sirf 12,00 ki police verification hui n duty assign ki gyi..hzaaro volunteers OC n police station k chkkr lga rhe apni services dene k liye...
OC get urself police... verified on ur own..we cant do nythng.. POLICE khti h hmaare pass koi info nhi h..n verify krwane ki Rs 250 fee h.. reebok cmpany k saath contract krke 30,000 uniforms ready krvayi gyi..n ab extra 18,000 uniforms KALMADI khud pahnega shayd...

It's my tax, my money, my CWG

Anupam Shrivastava

Associate Executive Producer, IBN7

Thank God Babri Masjid land dispute verdict is delayed, lets pray that it is pronounced only CWG games now. Any blast or riot after verdict before games can distort our image forever and India will shudder to even think of hosting any international championship for many years.

But we are positive, we are waiting that India should prove her might, we are waiting for opening ceremony anxiously we are even praying to rain god. But we are angry at the same time, angry for letting us down.

Why are we angry? Because, it's my tax, my money, my CWG, my footover bridge, my collapse!

Its my collapse Mr. Kalmadi. Mrs. Dikshit, Mr.Gill.
We are super power in cricket only. Why only criket ? because other than criket the way we treat our ‘other games and other players‘ is clear from the attitude of concerned machinery. Thanks to players like Sania, Saina, Abhinav, Sushil, Marykom, despite all odds, they reached to the top pedestal due to their individual capacity and brilliance. However, the bed of akhil kumar collapsed yesterday but our players are used to such treatment, and it is not a big issue.

If a British or Australian citizen had fallen down the bed and the outcry would have been magnified internationally.Nothing to worry, the standard of Indians and foreigners are different as Mr. Lalit Bhanot would have us belive.

Second thought is could Lalit Modi have handled CWG better. He must made it a extravaganza by outsourcing to the best on commission basis and not like our senior politicians, senior IAS, senior IPS have been doing, having your cake and eating it too. Modi might have faced the charges but IPL was a successful, nevertheless.

The difference between Lalit Modi and politicians is the same as has been succintly explained by M J Akbar in one his articles - he says, CIA  pumps blood into the heart of ruling class.C- CORRUPT, I-INCOMPETENT, A- ARROGANT, but china is way ahead of India because it is run by CPC: CORRUPT, PERVERSE BUT COMPETENT.

Sam Pitroda and Nandan Nilekani are some of the individuals who should have been considered to lead an event of such proportions. And why not Rahul Gandhi, after all his father Rajiv ensured that 82 Asiad went without a hitch and embarrassment to his mother. Considered to be young, sensible, level-headed and pragmatic, Rahul Gandhi should have been the first choice to head the CWG Organising Committee.

Senior politicians and ministers are sitting over all sports federations, its high time they were shunted out. It's time to change the things for better and if we fail this time we will never ever be able to be counted as a sporting nation both literally and figuratively.

CWG authorities have pinned all the blame on untimely incessant rains this time. Their excuse is that the concrete could not solidify because of the downpour. But, the truth is, our attitude to prepare at the last minute works in favour of all who see it as an opportunity to benefit illegally. From Rs. 450 crores to 70,000 crores now. News of Mismanagement of highest order are pouring in like the rains this year. South African High Commissioner H M Majeke said, he is not sure whether his country's team will stay in the Games Village or not. That was after he heard the news of a snake that sneaked into a player's room.

Players wait for buses though 1000 buses have been put on duty to transport them. The effort the ‘thekedar’ puts in cleaning a public property like urinals reeks of the same attitude with which sophisticated Games Village has been contructed.

I am angry because all of the world is mocking us. But I am positive because I am helpless. I am helpless because I have wasted my vote.

Mandal Kamandal have gone now and people are more concern about water logging in front and in society now. We are now becoming a neducated society and people's attitude is changing. We want Babus who plan cities keeping in mind the maximum amount of rainfall it might receive.

Firing on tourists outside Jama Masjid firing days before CWG speaks volumes about the security measures in place. The terrorist fired and were gone in 60 seconds like chain snatchers in Indian bazaars. The best police force of our country didn’t know where was CCTV installed and where the PCR van was. Blame game in this catch -22 situation resulted in nothing but a ghost coming out from pandoras box every time.

So where does the buck stops?

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