We Indians are so happily confused.

A league, where privately owned teams play for prize money, has been started for Kabaddi, like the Indian Premier League for cricket. This is to popularise the sport throughout the world and hopefully include it in the list of disciplines at the Olympics. After all, if they can have curling, where a fat disc is slid across the ice and 2 people frantically polish the ice with floor wipers, and beach volleyball, very popular with middle-aged men hoping to see a wardrobe malfunction as lithe young women contort themselves in tiny bikinis, then why not Kabaddi. But do we really want others to play the sport? If western countries take to Kabaddi they will do to us what they have done to us in hockey. England has just wiped the floor with our cricket team despite our players being some of the highest paid in the world. They can truly be described as a team of quacks seeing the number of ducks they have scored. No wonder our youngsters are a little confused, as a recent survey has shown. For instance, 88% in Jaipur said that they are very happy with life at the moment yet 65% confessed to being worried about their future. Perhaps there is something in the water in Jaipur that makes them worried and happy at the same time. When asked about role models, 31% mentioned the gasbag, Obama, the Drone Master, whose legacy will be the serial killings of hundreds of innocent children by using drones. By unnecessarily starting the crisis in Ukraine, inviting Russian response, and then using Russia's actions to impose sanctions Obama drove Putin to sell gas to China at a ridiculously low rate of $350 for 1000 cubic meters, which is half of what we will have to pay. The Chinese get very cheap energy, which will make them much richer and immensely more dangerous for India, and by paying in Yuan will encourage Chinese hegemony in the region. The 17% who chose Angelina Jolie have good taste but the 9% who chose Justin Bieber as a role model surely need counselling. Of the challenges facing India 44% chose corruption as the most important. Yet 53% of women and 46% of men said that they always find a way to achieve what they want in life. In India that can mean only one of 2 things: They have powerful parents, possibly politicians or civil servants who can pull strings, or their parents, possibly property dealers, have lots of black money with which to bribe people. This is also shown by about half having very high expectations from their future and wanting to get rich quickly. It is this confusion that makes us the most optimistic people in the world which makes us happy. Who needs marijuana?