Infinite thoughts

Yet another instance where Taxpayers' Money is being openly wasted on people who really don't need it and that is too for the sake of politician's own publicity.. Many state governments have announced crores of rupees to the Cricket World Cup winning team and all this money comes from the taxes we pay in various forms. Delhi, Punjab, Maharashtra, Tamilnadu, Karnataka and Uttarakhand have announced crores in cash or kind (read: Land) to the team players. And this wasn't budgeted at all. The recent report in Times shows that all this money is likely to come from Education budget in most of the states. In India, we are still struggling with "Right to Education", which underlines that there's a lot to do with the education, how much fair is it for the governments to divert the education budget to such things? The Cricketers have already received much (which incidentally is multiple times the amounts these governments are wasting) and would receive much more in...

Update: This is an old post saved in draft mode for almost a year. For some reason, which I don't remember, I didn't post it and found it today while screening through the list. Amidst the much hyped Indian economy's struggle to keep up the pace, some good news has arrived. Abhinav Bindra has won a gold medal at Beijing Olympics 2008 . This comes as a welcome surprise considering usual dismal performance of Indian sportsmen at this world stage. In India, there is only one game and that is Cricket. However bad performance the Indian team may display, almost every Indian will still hope that India will win next match. At the same time, we show complete lack of interest in any other sport. Sania Mirza tried to steal the show many times, but lacks consistency. Same is the case with Paes and Bhupati . We know both of them more for their bickering than their game. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathor , who bagged a silver medal in Athens Olympics 2004, seems to be nowhere in picture in 20...