Common Wealth games!! Are we doing our bit??

A major hit among the media since the last 1 year has been a conundrum, perhaps the biggest one after "will India become a super power", "will India be able to host The Common Wealth Games, 2010?". Well I have a question for all the critics on this subject, why do we doubt anything that India takes initiative for? Why is there always a question "will India be able to do it?".

Since the last 1 year, I haven't read any article in any of the leading newspapers about the projects completed, not even a single article singing of the accomplishment of delhi metro and not even a single writing exemplifying the achievements made so far.

All I could come across was that Projects haven't met deadlines, the roads are dug up, leakage of roofs and even a report saying that the delhi metro was delayed by 4 minutes, disrupting the life of passengers. Haven't the fool of a writer realised or has simply thought it best to ignore the fact that the same metro has actually brought those very same passengers' lives on the track and made commuting so easy that no one thinks twice about travelling into areas like Chandini Chowk or Cannaught Place, which earlier were a nightmare for the commuters? Has that very same writer forgotten the that India actually won the bid for The common wealth games against the most slated winners, Ontario, canada? Has he also forgotten that India is actually only the second asian country, after Kuala Lumpur to host the games?

A recent survey by a Canadian University reveals that the negativity surrounding an event actually hampers the its progress, while a single positive accomplishment accelerates it. I remember once when I was a child, my father had invited a few of his friends and their families over for dinner and my mother was supposed to cook for them. My mother, quite adept at cooking, consented easily. She cooked the usual stuff, rajma, vegetables and chapatis. When she had finished cooking, she tasted the vegetables she had prepared and to her utter astonishment, they were tasteless. The guests had started to arrive and she was in a dilemma as to what should be done. My father, being an intelligent man he is, tasted the rajma and exclaimed them to be the best he had ever tasted. Even me and my brother agreed with him. This gave my mother the thrust she needed and she made the best vegetables she had ever prepared.

I am not asking the media or the public to simply ignore the nepotism, stigma, corruption and simple incapability of our politicians to do even a single thing without stacking their personal accounts, but to give an equal attention to the accomplishments made. I am not asking the people of this country to be a part of this inveiglement for the athletics, but a little support as responsible citizens will be enough.

Last week, taking a stroll along the road behind my apartments, I noticed a girl, driving an SUV, rolled down her window and threw an empty bottle on the road. I am pretty confident, she would be one of the strongest critics of our politicians, their corruption and pruriginious mannerisms, but has she done her bit? Being an educated person (she might have such an assumption about her), did she give it a thought to keep the bottle to herself and through it away in the dustbin when she found one?

A teacher who tells the parents constantly not to compare their child with other children, as every child has his/her own special capability, near the coffee machine blabbers about how China impeccably held the Olympics or how London is already prepared for the 2012 Olympics, depicting Indian Common Wealth Games as a low-achieving child, sitting in the corner, watching all the other children taking their degrees grimacing at him.

Last week, in Times of India, I read Chetan Bhagat's article asking the Indian Citizen's to boycott the games. As adept a writer he might be (though I seriously doubt that), the article written was a disgrace for any Indian. His moral skills and truthfulness were quite exposed during the whole 3 Idiots episode, depiciting him a soul in severe search for attention but soon discovered the gaffe in his plan. A boycott of the games will not only leave India disgraced and drained of all self respect, but the primary purpose behind it i.e. to teach a lesson to our corrupt leaders will not be met. They have already raked in the moolah and stuffed their Swiss accounts. Believe me, it is the last of their priorities to hold the games successfully and even lower in their list lies the act of putting India's best foot forward. It is now upto us to bring the best of out of India by doing our bit. By not littering around, being humble to the foreign tourists who might ask us for a direction or two and the foremost is to, not criticize our preparations to the extent of defacing it.

You do your bit and let others do their's.

Hoping to have the best Games ever.