India successfully hosted first ever Indian GP. There are lots of debate ongoing about this F1. The great Manishankar Iyer was talking in one of the news channel…this F1 was an insult to Gandhji…and so on. His claim was like…we are still a developing nation, and many are starving and not getting 3 meal a day…so why this hifi sports for us.
This reminds me the same old story…when Indian Space Research Organization was formed for the first time, Our Vikram Sarabhai (Father of ISRO) tried hard to convince parliament to approve the formation of ISRO, the similar kind of argument was put forth while the ISRO bill discussion in parliament. For poor countries like India (in 1963 India was a poor country) space research is luxury and we are not self sufficient and so on. Somehow Vikram sarabhai managed to win the confidence of parliament and formed ISRO. Imagine, if that bill was rejected by parliament and we are not having ISRO today, then we could'nt watch this many satellite channels, not possible to have this many mobile service providers at cheapest tariff in the world, no 2G, no 3G, and bla bla… Today Pakistan is not able to do anything in space research in competion to India…..but we are competing with NASA. Definitely the day will come when NASA will seek collaboration agreement with ISRO.
Coming back to the topic, aren’t we too much bored with cricket? Why don’t we pay attention to other sports like F1? Of course this is costly sports, but we are also a developing nation and we are equally competent in technology to the West, then why not? This is the only sports where technology plays predominant role. No wonder, in future we may have Indian only podium finish in F1 (Great dream!!) Jai Ho!!
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