Uzbekistan spent $47m to revamp their entire footballing infrastructure + heavy subsidies for their top clubs while India spent $11m for a Messi tour, $1m erecting his statue (demolished within a year due to structural flaws) & the domestic league was recently dead for months.
The Indian mind is not truly free. A child growing up in India is exposed to constant negativity: cultism sold as religion, unequal opportunities, vulgar displays of ill-gotten wealth, a deeply transactional society, normalized corruption, unhealthy competition that often breeds schadenfreude, and the repeated triumph of compromised institutions and businesses.
The saddest part? The moment you point out these behaviors and ask for reform, the protectors of the system rush to label you “anti-national” rather than engage with the criticism.
A nation grows when it can confront its flaws honestly, not when it silences those who dare to point them out.
India should ask US Ambassador in New Delhi to go back to Washington and remain there unless US expresses regret for the reckless killing of our citizens on sea. But Modi is a pussy cat before Donald. He shivers before him.
You see stuff like this and realise why no other sport comes close. Football is so closely tied to national identities, the nation's culture and it has played a role in the upliftment of nations. Nothing replicates it.
NEET a mess. CBSE a mess. Education sector a mess. Students’ lives a mess. But education minister is busy offering prayers in a bizarre display of sycophancy.