Silence! It is The Time For The Commonwealth Games in India

Silence! It is the Time for the Commonwealth Games in India

brotee mukhopadhyay

Commonwealth Games, 2010, will start from third October 2010. India has been shining through the rise in the Bombay Stock Exchange crossing 20000 marks. The government and its paid trumpeters are busy to vitiate the sky with the message of great economic development of the country. Nevertheless, darkness below the glow of the lamp is upsetting more than ever. The market prices have crossed 16.47 percent, probably the highest ever.

During the period of the Commonwealth Games, hotels and lodges of Delhi and New Delhi will be occupied by thousands of important foreigners, especially by persons from the Commonwealth countries. Traffic restrictions in the streets and roads of the Indian capital have already created acute problems in the daily life of the common people. Plight of the people who are really fortunate to live below the poverty line as the citizens of India remains untouched in the mainstream media. Beggars have already been thrown out of the city. The daily wagers and helping hands have started to leave to their former destinations, because most of them are not in a state to produce genuine identification documents. Their former destinations are not sure to welcome them, however temporary this may be. This is a period of at least fifteen days or more.

The Delhi and Haryana police staff has been busy to ensure that most of the helping hands (that is, gardeners, cooks, maids, daily wagers of several forms etc.) must quit the capital and its vicinity which even includes part of Gurgaon. These people must quit the capital, because they cannot show authentic identification documents. The security personnel have ensured it mostly by this time. The security officers are proud enough to declare that they have been successful in considerably reducing robberies in the city as the records of the last two weeks reflect this achievement.

Let us leave the plight of the people of the lower run of the Indian society. We shall find time to address their problems again before the next election days. Let them try their fortune somewhere away from our great capital, the venue of the Commonwealth Games.

Let us also pay little attention to the problem of one Mr. Kalmadi who has drawn much attention of the offline and online media in the recent weeks like one Mr. Lalit Modi of the famous IPL. Mr. Kalmadi has been projected as a great thief by the media. It is reported that he has managed to make huge fortune as chief of the Commonwealth Games organizing committee. Let us not be bothered with such news of little importance. He is not the first in this game. Probably he is not the only thief as he has been projected. May be he is one of the forty thieves. May be there is no Alibaba in this modern tale. Mr. Kalmadi and his associates can sleep well at night as they have numbers of predecessors in this country. They are no less happy than any other around them.

Presently, some of our co-citizens find them placed in awkward situation. They are professionals and employees in different plants and offices in the public and private sectors in around Delhi. They feel helpless when they miss the services of their helping hands. The wheel of their daily life runs well when these helping hands, these guys and girls, irrespective of castes and races, are available as almost free fuel.

It is, nevertheless, the time for the Commonwealth Games. We should better make no noise. Silence!