OLYMPICS:A CHANCE TO SHOW THE POWER

Olympics is the well known sports competition where more than 200 nations participate. One more Olympics has gone by:RIO OLYMPICS. A total of 974 medals were won by 87 countries. This time also United States won the highest 121 medals among all the nations and in Asia, only China was able to place itself in the top ten position.

As we should know that United States,Great Britain,Germany,France,Australia,Russia,China,Japan and South Korea continued to dominate in this Olympics as usual, India was placed at 67 by winning only 2 medals that too silver and bronze only. India's performance was proved to be the poorest among all the nations. All the time, we gave laundry list of complaints like lack of facilities,sports administrators,blame on sports ministry and we say this once in every four years at the time of Olympics.

India is one of the Nuclear powers in the world. We have the largest constitution,we are the largest producer of Doctors, Engineers and many more professionals which any super power wasn't able to do. All countries want to manage good affairs with India and they made their foreign policy in favor of this nation. However, the performance of India in Olympics is too bad and it deserves a better position keeping in mind the great talent it has. On the other hand, New Zealand won 10 of its medals in rowing,sailing and canoeing, all based on its rich marine heritage. Jamaica won in athletics, specifically in running, in which it has built a super cluster, Italy won 7 medals in shooting, 4 in fencing, Cuba 6 in boxing, Kazakhstan 5 in weightlifting, Iran 5 in wrestling, Kenya 13 in athletics.

Long term thinking is good so instead of aiming and planning for more medals in 2020 Tokyo Olympics, we should prepare ourselves for Olympics scheduled eight or twelve years from now. Fortunately, we already have  the building clusters of excellence. Pullela Gopichand has single-handedly built a cluster for badminton in Hyderabad. Haryana is the cluster of excellence for boxing and wrestling. North East has shown remarkable energy in sports by producing the ideals like Marry Kom and Dipa Karmakar. If we focus on sports, there is sure-fire way of bringing the north eastern state into the main stream. Kerala is big in boat racing and martial arts,a natural place to develop capabilities in canoeing and sports like judo and taekwondo. Maharashtra is big in mallakhamb and gymnastics is a natural extension for this.

If our government and our ministers would provide for money and material to the athletes for practicing instead of distributing felicitation money to only two medalists then we could hope that more medals would come to our home because our athletes would first play for their nation then for themselves.

We just need to focus on the hidden talent in our country and athletes should be provided with the adequate facilities without any bias policy. We have to make INDIANS GREAT in this area also.

Secularism in India

As we have already know that our country had adopted many things from western countries.Though we had also adopted the concept of Secularism from west.But as we had borrowed it so it doesn't mean that we had enacted it as it is.We have to first clear the concept of Secularism in our mind.

Might be Western countries adopted same secularism among their constitutions.But the constitution makers of India were quite aware of the diversities in India and they known that they couldn't adopted the same Secularism in their home country.They have to make some modifications with India's situation.But the biggest problem with the Indian is they thought that our constitution also spell in the same manner as the western Secularism do.
So first of all I want to clarify this concept of Secularism in Western context and in Indian context.

If we turn the pages of history of revolutions in the Europe,than we will find that two major institutions ruled the empire and they were Churches and Kings.and actually the King got his authority from the Church and articulated that he is the direct messenger of God and whatever decision he taken is the wish of God so the civilians don't dare to go against the will of the God because he is the supreme and eternal.And they also thought that the social inequalities which was prevailing in the empire is the wish of God.
But later on people thought that why God will give us pain,nevertheless he is the creator,he loves his followers so why was he interested to give us pain ?than they decided to do whatever their rationale mind will tell them.They realized that this biased concept had formed by these Churches and Kings.Although the churches regulated the Kings in ruling the empire so they decided to separate these two institution from one another and after some time when the separate states formed they enacted this concept in their constitutions and declared that "STATE HAS NO RELIGION".
And also the belief in the religion got depleted in those days in the entire European region.

But when our intellectuals at the time of independence sited to form a dynamic constitution for their country they surveyed in each and every country and borrowed whatever they thought quite good for their constitution.
but when they heard about the Secularism and critically analyzed it,they feared that this will create discord among the Indians.so they have molded it according to the religions in India.They enacted it in the Indian constitution as "STATE HAS NO ONE RELIGION".
It means that the Indian state won't look into any case with the perception of majority religion instead with the specific religion.In Indian context,our constitution gives us a fundamental right to freedom of religion and every person has a right to profess, practice and propagate the religion he or she believes in as inclined between Articles 25 to 28 of Part IV of the Indian constitution.

In western countries if you become an Atheist  than you'll be considered as most Secular.But in India,if a person is following any religion he/she can be considered as Secular because with believing in his/her religion he/she isn't defaming or speaking against the ethos of anyone's religion.

And with this feeling and with this ideology most of the Indians of different religion are living in this country so peacefully and happily.and i have written this article for those antagonistic people who portrayed the Indian Secularism as a same product of west and claimed it as an anti-religion.
This is a Myth that Indian Secularism is anti-religion.