India suffered a great loss in the hands of Australia
yesterday. TVs were broken, jokes were forwarded and tears were shed. All
because of our love affair with cricket. We love our cricket and we love our
cricketers. SO why was there a need for security to be beefed outside Dhoni’s
house in Ranchi or outside the houses of other cricketers? Come on India we are
better than that!! We lost to a better team. SO loose like sports(wo)men do.
Come on buck up… It’s just a game.
Frankly gone are the days when our national prestige was linked to our performance in a cricket match, the only place we had hopes to shine. India is shining and we are instrumental in the success. 12 men will not take India to victory the all 1.2 Bil people will. We are already winning. Our country is where everything is at… so stand up and be proud. We don’t need cricket to show the world our metal let’s do it with our success, persistence and will to win.
Win in the fight of ‘Swach Bharat Abhyan’. Image how cool
would it be to succeed on this front by the next cricket 20-20 world cup. Let’s
get angry and break the shackles of casteism to establish equality in our
nation before ICC world cup 2019. Let wipe the tears of all the oppressed and
uplift them from misery. Yes we have bigger issues that we can actually fix, apart
of our teams performance in cricket.
On a more optimistic note, look at what’s happening around
you …. The
Indian women’s hockey team won the world cup, Indian
women and men’s Kabaddi teams won the world cup, Saniya
Nehwal well on her way to becoming world number one. If these are not our
achievements as a nation what are?
Let’s bring the boys home with gratitude not hate. That does
not mean we stop cracking jokes or the hilarious sarcastic comments but be sure
they are not insults guided to demolish spirit of few. Meanwhile we get back to
our lives and contribute to the economy. Basically … Move on with dignity!!
By Snigdha
