The recent moral victory of common man spurred by Anna Hazare's fast was a good beginning and it was close on heels of an Indian Cricket World Cup Victory. The 1983 world cup victory inspired an group of individuals which grew up and was part of post 1991 liberalization era. I draw strange and striking similarities and am sure that the rise of India as a super power around 2020 - 2025 would be reviewed on the back drop of Indian Cricket World Cup victory in 2011 and the Lokpal Bill which is long over due and likely to be passed in monsoon session of Parliament.
I am no avid fan of Cricket nor do I want to get entangled as to why should cricket receive so much attention. I am happy that people have something to cheer about, something which brings them together and makes them to strive for something better. The World Cup Victory is just the right booster dose which we were looking for.
Anna Hazare sprang from no where and made us aware that the Lokpal bill was toyed around for 42 years and was being tabled in a manner which would render it useless. This bill would surely be the beginning of a sea change in the way governments function. That is the difference between the uprisings of Middle East and changes which are going to take place in India!! Simply proud to have been born in a democratic set up like India.
I am no avid fan of Cricket nor do I want to get entangled as to why should cricket receive so much attention. I am happy that people have something to cheer about, something which brings them together and makes them to strive for something better. The World Cup Victory is just the right booster dose which we were looking for.
Anna Hazare sprang from no where and made us aware that the Lokpal bill was toyed around for 42 years and was being tabled in a manner which would render it useless. This bill would surely be the beginning of a sea change in the way governments function. That is the difference between the uprisings of Middle East and changes which are going to take place in India!! Simply proud to have been born in a democratic set up like India.
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