India has won the Under-19 world cup and the team returned to India today (Mar/04). The reception that the team received is quite baffling. There were quite a lot of people who thronged the airport and a huge police force for protection. The winning team members were taken on a procession in an open bus through the city (akin to how the seniors were taken around after their T20 championship victory). Every member of the winning team has been awared Rs.15 lakh each and I am sure a few more are yet to come. I only wish that these things does not corrupt the kids and scuttle what could be a good career (you see, everybody is not Sachin!).
I was just wondering whether was it a game or a battle that these guys have won !! Compare this to the plight of a poor girl, named ILLA-VAZHAGI, a slum dweller in Chennai who went on to win the World Carrom championships twice and yet did not get anything from anybody. When one of the news channel highlighted her pathetic condition (there is no space in her house to keep the carrom board !!) TN State Govt has offered her a reward of Rupees ONE lakh !!
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