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India doesn’t need sports. We have Bollywood!

November 25, 2007 posted by indiatime |

A recent study has found that mothers who are active in pregnancy produce active kids. It also meant mothers who aren’t as active in pregnancy have children who aren’t as active. Perhaps that explains why many Indian kids nowaday are more interested in television’s singing reality shows than in sports.

Indian television is replete with reality shows, especially of the singing variety. Almost every other show is some kind of singing or dancing contest. Half the content on India’s news channels (the rest being the sport of Cricket) is news about singing and dancing reality shows. Yes, I do remember one reality show with any sport-like activity, but that was about big obese adults working hard to shed hundreds of extra pounds gained by watching hours of television while gobbling junk food.

How is it that there aren’t contests that test how fast our kids can run, how high they can jump or how far they can throw. How come there aren’t more contests that lure kids into taking up sports, into running, jumping, exercising, swimming? Is it just me or have you also noticed that everyone in India wants to be a Bollywood singer, nowadays?

Within less than a year, the world will be watching the greatest sports spectacle at our neighbor’s. India will practically be an Olympic no-show with its pathetically inadequate contingent of losers. As the world celebrates the fastest, the highest and the strongest, India will yet again prove to be a slow, low, and a weak sporting nation. As the world competes the in greatest show on earth in Beijing in the summer of 2008, India will continue to sing and dance silly and sissy with Bollywood’s idiots. We don’t need Lance Armstrongs. We don’t need Roger Federers. We have Shahrukh Khan playing Hockey and we have John Abraham playing Soccer. But we can sing ‘Chak De’ and ‘Beedi Jalai Le’ better than anyone else.


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  1. Raj on November 25, 2007 1:50 pm

    I have been watching a few of the reality shows. I think there is a need for censoring some of these shows, which are downright dirty. Item numbers are reproduced as such on TV. It is ridculous to see dancing and singing as a shortcut to cinema. What is being shown and performed as dance is nothing but cabaret dances. The Indian governemnt should consider banning such ugly shows on TV.

  2. najeeb on November 28, 2007 1:29 pm

    hiiiiiiiiiiiiii

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