Congrats Sachin! You have truly inspired a nation by the positive attitude you have shown consistently right through your career.
On the sidelines, I also wanted to make an appeal to fellow citizens. We need to learn to recognize people who delivered success and inspired a lot of young people. There is a minor section of people who take pleasure in attacking sachin. My impression is that they are people who has grown up with an attitude of finding reasons for not taking risks in life or trying to excel in their profession. Sachin's contribution can be summarized with just by one single statistic:
1. India played 257 tests between 1932 and 1989. 43 Won, 89 lost and drew 124. 2. India played 217 tests between 1989 and 2013. 78 Won, 60 lost and 79 drawn. Tendulkar deserves Bharat ratna not because what Tendulkar an individual achieved but due to his inspiration and positive influence, how Gen next cricketers developed a fearless attitude modelling on him and also how people exhibited the same positive attitude at their work with the same 'can do' attitude. Yes! He did have some weaknesses like every legend of every sport. The detractors choose to but a microscope on those weaknesses and make it look big. Its their choice. a sane minded person and generation who witnessed his career from Day 1 would know about the impact he created on the Indian public. Kudos champ!
Congratulations for the award, but regret to see politics wielding its power into sports. BCCI will remain ashithole until politicians like Jaitely, Shukla and father of politicians Cement Mama are in the helm of affairs.
Re: Too much
by Balaji on Nov 16, 2013 09:21 PM
sachin wanted to end up his cricketing career in a peaceful. Now congress made it controversial. By announcing BR they spoiled his reputation.
So the Congress Govt can also do good deeds.The award is not only well deserved but timely.The Govt needs to be congratulated for its thoughtful gesture.Congrats for Sachin and Dr.Rao
This will be Congis' election gimmick for vote catching. They will now start going around saying that they are the first government to recognise sports and give Bharat Ratna to a cricketer. Otherwise, who can forget the contributions of a Gavaskar or a Kapil Dev, but they never got such recognition. Gavaskar played some of the fiercest fast bowlers like Marshall, Holding, Lille and Thomson without a helmet and scored runs and yet he never got this kind of recognition. What a shame and what dirty politics.
The person who today says "cricket is my life", a few years back for a few bucks claimed he "was an actor and not a cricketer" to evade tax.. and we give such a person bharat ratna
