Friday, October 1, 2010

The Common (man’s) wealth (vanished) games

After so much of hulla gulla-hanky panky the Commonwealth games start in two days, though the nation might be interested in watching cricket. Actually all this talk about hygiene or safety conditions could have been averted only if the officials had taught themselves to think like me and saved those much needed 600 to 900 crores of rupees. My plan is so simple, technologically feasible too. “Commonwealth games – over the net”- so simple right? Every sports person stays in his or her own country and our officials go there. At least our people would never have the guts of calling the hoots on the other country’s hygiene or cleanliness or security.

Yeah, just imagine every athlete running alone on the track and comparing the timings with other athletes running all alone in their own respective countries. Well some of them might be running at night or some at noon but what the heck! sportsmanship spirit people! And with some advanced technology we’d see all the eight runners at the same time on our TV screens. Even China which would be hosting the Asian games in November (preparations have been on for the past seven years to host something spectacular in the realm of the recent Olympics, they say) might think that India is hosting the Commonwealth with some web cams and computers while we are spending so much money!!!

Damn, we could have made history. The only security to be provided would be from hackers or viruses. None of the countries or players would pull out of the games and the poor officials could have saved face and our tax money.

No footbridges falling down,
Falling down,
Falling down,
None of the ceilings falling down, my dear Kalmadi.

See, told ya! Cho chimple.

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