It is time to stop the skepticism on the Commonwealth Games

I AM sorry readers; I was among the first, who started writing about negativism around the Commonwealth Games. Now I feel it is time to stop the skepticism on the forthcoming Commonwealth Games. Actually, the global media has a habit of anticipating and blowing the lid out of proportion before almost major sporting events.

There have been enough instances, when Beijing was blamed too polluted for players and visiting delegations, preparations in Athens were described as nil, South Africa had numerous negativities et al. However, all the countries successfully hosted their respective events.

The entire world is tarnishing our country's image and criticising by taking clues from our own mainstream media, politicians and the common man nullifying comments through blogs, Facebook, Twitter, Orkut etc. Looking at the high scale of corruption and other charges involved with the Commonwealth Games, we Indians are constantly criticising Delhi's efforts. The process has, with thanks to Indian mainstream media, made the country a laughing stock in the eyes of the international community. Is it justified?

Media could have played a more patriotic role than an ambitious one all this while and done constructive criticism than flaring up the already deafening chorus of the detractors. Instead of proudly displaying our abilities to the world, we as a nation were reduced to hiding our inabilities. We should not have given anyone a chance to point a finger at us. Remember, we Indians stood united during Kargil war, now we will have to stand again for the sake of our nation pride.

It is high time to alter criticism into concrete positive actions. After all, it is a matter of national pride to hold the Games in our national capital. The need of the hour is to come together as a city and as a nation for mega event. Delhiites should show their solidarity in a bid to make these Games triumphant and be ready for being a good host so that visitors can treasure their reminiscences and trip to our country. It is our collective failure and now participant countries have got an opportunity of making more fuss about living conditions at the Games Village.

"I think India is giving in to the demands of our guests a little too much and getting dominated by our guests. I have also been to number of countries and there have been times when the arrangements were not very good but we never made such a fuss out of it," said 81 years old legendary ‘flying Sikh’ Milkha Singh.

I believe India will conduct Commonwealth Games successfully as the Indian government has the potential to do things differently. We will bounce back into action after much criticisms and delays.

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