Rio Olympics- A lesson to India.

               First of all, hearty congratulations to the whole Indian Contingent for putting their best efforts at Rio. I thank Sakshi and Sindhu for their medals for the country. Though we have won only two medals, if we look at the leader board positions in many event our Indians gave very tough fight. Some of them are really close like Deepa Karmakar, Abhinav Bindra missed by fractions. Some finished in respectable positions especially in Athletics, Sculls, Shooting. We lost important games in Hockey Archery, Wrestling, Boxing, Tennis and Badminton which doesn’t mean we are outplayed totally; it is just an odd bad day. Those games might have gone anybody’s way.  Overall we have improved our performance at Olympics.Just number of medals doesn’t speak everything. But still we have many questions to answer.

                   We are only next to china in population but why we had to wait for 12 days since the start of Olympics to register a medal on our name. Countries with population less than many of our states are able to secure more medals. Does India lack talent? No, India has got talent but not enough opportunities.  There are people who blame cricket for dominating other sports. Yes it dominates, but it doesn’t hold sole responsibility. There are several other important factors.  The facilities to other sports are seldom. Cricket is an easy game in terms of accessibility. It can be played on streets, farms and sometimes inside rooms with a little creativity, but this is not the case with other sports. Even in terms of profession, cricketers have more facilities and opportunities. This alone can’t be stated as reason for other sports loosing attention. Overall the importance given to sports in India is less. The average amount spent on sports per person in India is far behind what they spent in China and most of the countries for that matter. Today governments are competing to announce prizes for the Olympic medalists. Its good, but the problem is different, we lack facilities, compete in providing facilities, the talented are getting submerged under economical barriers and politics. There are only few who are lucky to get an opportunity. The people who had won medals for India are great and are deserved to get rewards and recognition. This doesn't mean the others who had given their best but had a bad day are not worthy. They need more support. Most of them fought hard, it is our responsibility to give our support to them and help them to perform better next time. It is heartbreaking to hear about an athlete who fainted due to unavailability of water. We had sent other officials including union minister to help our athletes. I don't want to comment more. Governments and authorities are very busy in their own politics. The unworthy politicians and other people should be kept away from these. There are many who know the sports better so that they manage those respective academies and organizations. The encouragement is needed when the players actually need it. This is needed for those who gave their best but missed closely. This is needed for those who lack facilities. This is needed to those who are struggling for opportunities. This dedication is needed in providing facilities to them. Had they spent that money in improving the facilities we might have won more medals. The other bitter truth is education in India dominates sports. Very few people believe the sports and games are the part of education. Our education system itself is ruined by giving stress on quantity of marks rather than the quality of education. This is the reason why we are neither able to produce gold medalists in Olympics nor able to produce noble prize winners of science. No offence, we are just good at producing rankers and toppers whose ultimate goal is to settle in life with a job with a good package. There are people who think out of box, who are multi talented but those are not given opportunities to express themselves. Most of the parents don’t give importance to sports and physical education. Most of the schools don’t provide its students with proper physical education. Most of the schools are expanding vertically but there are very less schools which provide ground and other facilities to their students. The lack of urban planning made our modern cities deprived of empty spaces and grounds. This attitude of parents and management should change. The physical training and sports should be given enough importance. The education should be knowledge centered rather than giving importance to the quantity of marks. There are many qualities which can't be infiltrated into students through books. Sports and games is one way to enrich one's character, one's capability to tackle pressure situations. Students should be given opportunities in every field. We need competitions of various events at school level, college level, state level and national level. We need leagues in all fields at national level like IPL, Pro Kabadi. We need to recognize talent from every nuke and corner of the country. We need to celebrate national science day and national sports day as we celebrate our national festivals. We need dedicated coaches and dedicated teachers. We need CHANGE to Change our fate at Olympics or any other international platform. 

Jai Hind. Satyamevajayate.  

70 Years of Indian Independence - A long Journey ahead.

                            Seventy years ago, on this day the citizens of this country came together to celebrate the Independence from colonial rule. Yet there are many challenges infront of them to make independent India a global platform which can compete with the best in every field. They laid a platform for our country with the best constitution and other amenities. They trusted us, our skills in making our country better and better. In these 70 years we as a nation had achieved many goals, we had put out country in a position which seemed impossible 70 years before. India's freedom struggle with non violence is a global lesson to maintain peace in the world. Our leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, APJ Abdul Kalam has become global icons for their respective deeds. Today countries like America, China, Russia gives importance to maintain friendly relations with us knowing our potential and strength. Our Army, Navy, Airforce are regarded as one of the best security forces. Our national space organization ISRO stunned the whole world with the missions it had taken making India a global competitor in Space science and Technology. The Maangalyan mission and the cost of the mission had made us unique. Organizations like DRDO, HAL are symbols of India's capability in sector of manufacturing. The recent fighter jet ' Tejas ' made the world look at our capabilities. The Indian brands like TATA made a global impact and registered its name in the top 100 most valued brands in the world. India reached a position to take in global contracts in various fields strengthening its ties with other countries across various fields. We have succeeded in establishing world class educational and research institutions such as IISC etc. We had dominated the world in the production of Milk. We listed our name in the top producers of steel etc. In the recent past we also gave attention on renewable energy resources and nuclear energy. To add to this we have many achievements in various fields. Still there are challenges left infront of us to make our country better. We need to have a broader mindset of Independence. We need to understand the idea of democracy. We need to curb caste based and religious based politics. We need politicians who are capable of changing the system. We need knowledge centered education system where every child has a right to pursue knowledge in a field he likes to. We need youth who can understand the idea of India. We need youth who are ready to serve the country. We need to set a platform where our citizens don't depend on other countries to settle in life. We need Independent India where my farmer friends doesn't depend totally on monsoons rather they use technology to make efficient use of monsoon rainfall. We need FREEDOM. Freedom from corruption. Freedom from poverty. Freedom from female foeticides. Freedom from crimes especially against my female friends. Freedom from caste and religious differences. Freedom from child labors.Freedom from farmer suicides. Freedom from scams. Freedom from hunger. Freedom from litter. Freedom from struggle.

                                         Let us all pledge this Independence Day that we achieve this FREEDOM for our mother land.  'Vandemataram' is not 'One Day mataram' , we try our best to make our country better and never forget that we belong to this holy nation. Every single day let us celebrate Freedom and salute our nation for giving us this atmosphere. Wish you all a very happy Independence day.

Jai Hind. Satyamevajayate.

EAMCET Leakage Scam( Telangana ) - Isn't this the fault of our Educational System.

                The recent news of leakage of EAMCET examination in Telangana has shattered the whole student and parent community in the state. Finally government of the state has taken a call to cancel the examination and re conduct it again. There are reports from CID that more than 200 students are beneficiaries of the leakage. There were many officials involved and each student has spent around INR 50,00,000. Now let us see this in a different view. Just think, what made those students spent so much, what made them so greedy about the ranks, parents who need to guide their children had misguided them with the greed for ranks and marks. It shows the level of greediness for marks. No matter how they come, parents just need marks, ranks. In fact the whole society needs just final scores. This in one of the reasons which forces students to commit malpractices in examinations to get marks and ranks. It is very unfortunate that parents are also part of such malpractices in the recent EAMCET scam. This is clearly the failure of the education system we follow. This system gives emphasis to final scores than actual knowledge one has gained. The student is also trained to face the examination but not trained to apply knowledge he has gained. Even the parents are not bothered about the knowledge their children gained but only bothered about the final scores. This was not the case with only engineering or medical entrance examination but this is the case right from  the start of the education. This leakage scam alarms all of us about the system we follow today. It is not that only those 200 students are corrupted in their mind but most of the students are corrupted, it is only that they are not caught or didn't get a chance. This is the failure of our system in building our character and consensus. This is a failure of the system in making us interested in gaining knowledge rather than marks or ranks. This is a failure of our system in testing the actual knowledge of a particular individual. Simply this is commercialization of education. Education should be knowledge centered, not money centered or marks centered. It should focus on our character building and give us the strength of decision making rather than focusing on jobs and money making. System should be able to capture the interests and strengths of a particular student and train him to achieve perfection in those areas irrespective of subjects or sports. Hope we see a system focusing on education with values, system which emphasis on quality rather than quantity.

Jai Hind. Satyamevajayate.