Rio Olympiad 2016

Watched the opening ceremony of Rio Olympiad today early morning. What a proud in the faces of people of Brazil for conducting this mega function in a grand manner.  Equally I could see the faces of participants. How many countries – smaller and bigger than our India….Countries like Nauru (Total area is only 21 Sq KM) sent good number of participants with the hope of bagging medals.

Felt little bit frustrated – Why my country and I should feel proud to host such a mega event here?  Are we not capable to handle? We never in the fray of competition to host.  Countries equal to one of our states already hosted it successfully. We are still talking of Religion, Caste, Language, State, Party etc etc and not came out of such politics. When are we going to be seen by other country people based on our sport caliber? When they are going to afraid of our sport skills?

Once we conducted CWG with lot of controversy. When are we going to change ourself and recognize & develop real sport talent to take our country to have a slot in the top of medal tally?

Will it happen in my life time?

What I read

It was told since long that if anyone kills a cobra, it has to be set into fire with respect. This is criticized by many people as a wrong belief (superstition). The actual reason is something else.

The poison within the teeth of cobra will reside as such even if the body of the cobra decompose and by accident if someone happens to be in touch with that teeth, poison can go inside the human body and will react. In order to overcome this, they asked to set the body of the cobra into fire so that the poison inside the teeth will burn and human can be safe