Not only Pak and ISI, even our corrupt leaders and media want us to believe the following myths:
- Pak is a fellow-victim of terrorism, and not the cause of all our troubles.
- we must continue to talk with Pak even though they keep training terrorists
- we must keep giving concessions to Pak in the hope that they will one day consider stopping sending terrorists to India
- that we don't have any power or influence over Pak, that we must keep begging white countries to pressurize Pak into cooperating, i.e., do our job for us.
- a weak and fragmented Pak is not in our national interest
ToI is condusting a poll to vote 4 the World's Greatest Sports Personality ....the list includes 12 names...
The biggest joke is the list misses the names of Wayne Gretzky, Sergei Bubka, Yelena Isniabayeva, Micheal Phelps Lin Dan ....
The bigger joke is between Sachin and Dhyan Chand, there are 81% votes. This shows how ridiculous this poll is. Only 19% amongst Federer, Pele, Ali, Carl Lewis and the rest of the non-Indian nominees. LOL. This is a poll with a lot of credibility!!!!!!!
Re: Biggest joke of 2010...
by bango tango on Dec 25, 2010 06:47 PM
A few sportspersons like Federer, Johnson, Pele etc. are included in the list. I am not sure whether it is going to the world audience or confined only to India. Cricket is not known to 95% of the countries in the world. It is an 8-nation game. India is cricket crazy and we are obsessed with the game and Tendulkar's achievements. Naturally, all Indians will vote for him and he will win hands down. But is it a true reflection of real greatness? After all, most of the others in the list of TOI ( I do not remember the complete list) have played or are playing global games unlike cricket which is confined to just 8 countries. So, how far it is correct to even conduct such a poll? In our own country, even the achievements of the likes of Bindra (Olympic gold), Vishwanathan Anand (multiple world championship played by many more countries than cricket) will definitely rank higher. However, as everything is media driven and popularity driven, you have to perhaps bow to that and say, `Tendulkar is the greatest ever sportsman', even if you are not convinced of the same!
