The 30th Olympiad is off to a jubilant start. Jubilant in the sense that our British brethren got an opportunity to put their smiling faces in front of the camera for the entire world to see, hiding the anguish born out of the disastrous performance of their economy. More importantly, Danny Boyle got James Bond to walk the Queen out to the stadium. How many times does that ever happen? So after this glorious extravaganza was over, the media, naturally, moved on to more important news. And what can be more important than a mysterious woman, right out of one of our mythological scriptures, who sprang next to the flag-bearer Sushil Kumar, a devoted practitioner of the ancient sport of wrestling, and a devotee of Lord Hanuman. Guys, this is like the perfect divine intervention, a signal that everything's going to be just fine for the Indian contingent in this edition of the games.
We Indians believe in omens, whether good or bad. In fact, it is not unusual for people to suddenly turn courteous once they encounter a cat crossing their path. The "you first" bug spreads across the length-and-breadth of the country once that happens. Therefore, all this hoopla surrounding the identity of this mysterious woman is ill-founded in my humble opinion. I mean, why ruin it for everybody? Suresh Kalmadi couldn't be there, so god already took care of the bad part. And it was balanced out by this vision of a smiling lady walking by our gabru jawaan. Guys, if Sushil wins a medal, we can truly believe that God's hand was on him! In fact, if we win any medal at all (which I pray and hope we will, else it will be too hard for somebody living in this part of the world to avoid the catcalls), we can claim that we did it despite of the sports administration, and because God gave us a signal already. Imagine the perfect scenario, just like one of those mythological serials that grace our screens on sunday mornings, where the Gods appear to be floating in the air, and then suddenly vanish. It would have been just like that!
Alas, the mystery has been solved, and she is just a troupe dancer who was a bit overzealous. But hey, only in India can a non-sportsperson hog the media limelight from our athletes even at the olympics. At least the officials don't outnumber the sportsmen in this version of the olympics, unlike the winter one!
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