Who wants gold?

What a dismal Olympics for India, lying at a lowly number 44 with just 1 silver and 2 bronze medals. It is not about being rich and being able to afford the best training facilities, medical care and nutrition for your athletes as China and the US are able to do. Even a starving country like North Korea, suffering under decades of sanctions, has 4 gold medals. It is not about size because Denmark with 5.5 million people has 3 golds, Jamaica with 2.9 million people has 2 golds and tiny Grenada with just 110,000 people has 1 gold. Partly it is because every sports body in India is controlled by slimy politicians and civil servants who are there to siphon off the money and roam around the world at the cost of the athletes. Rumor is that the Commonwealth Games netted some Rs 200 billion. Our 5 member wrestling team to the Olympics has 3 coaches and 1 manager leaving no place for a physio. Wrestler Sushil Kumar is personally paying for the air ticket and stay of physio Arvinderpal Singh who will not be allowed to stay at the athletes village because he has not been accredited by the Indian Olympic Association. However, there are at least 1 million Indians in the US alone and several million in other western countries. Yet not one of these countries has anyone of Indian origin in their teams. The reason is that Indian parents want their children to excel in studies, so that they can earn a living, and actively discourage " wasting time " on sports. You can see that in the " Spelling Bee " contest in the US where children of Indian immigrants regularly win top spot. Probably because learning the spelling of extremely weird words, that one would never remember or use during an entire lifetime, is considered studying. The sad thing is that while the US team continues to excel at London NASA scientists were celebrating the perfect landing of the Mars lander, Curiosity in the Gale crater on Mars after a journey of 8 months covering 352 millions miles. This involved some extremely complex maneuvers never tried before. The scientists were calling it " 7 minutes of terror " because the lander was out of contact for that length of time while landing. Not a single Indian has won a Nobel Prize from India, everyone has been working abroad. The best students turning out of our top institutions go into management and then into very highly paid jobs in companies where they are expected to obey orders and do whatever is necessary to make profits, however immoral it maybe. Standards of education are constantly being reduced to accommodate " reservation " students who are given seats with fewer marks and cannot compete. There are shortages of faculties in every top college because they are poorly paid and are told how to teach, the emphasis being on learning by heart. What our professors use to call " commit to memory and vomit to paper ". Libya had only one Gaddafi, we have thousands. If only we could bring them to the same end.