Why should our stuff be low-quality?

O.J.George

Now there is a hue and cry about the substandard pitch of the Feroze Shah Kotla which forced Indian and Sri Lanka cricket teams to abandon the fifth match.
As expected, no one takes responsibility and everyone is on the forefront of being in the blame game. Easy it is for that, for BJP’s Arun Jaitley is the Delhi Cricket Association chief and there are worthies of the UDF in the BCCI and other state boards.

Congress has already blamed Jaitley and wanted him to quit. Sports Minister M.S.Gill has found found it a matter of shame. ICCI is questioning the arrangement of amenities.

Money cannot be a problem in cricket matters, therefore, the reason could be only shoddy preparations. Why can’t we be a quality people, when we have the wherewithal to be so?

We are showing off as sub-standard stuff when we take one decision on visa restrictions and then a lot of haggling happens at the ministerial level.

Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor has questioned the multiple- entry visa restrictions imposed on foreigners by the Indian Government. Of course, he has expressed his difference of opinion through twitter.

Was it not better on his part to have raised the matter before his own ministry to be taken up with the Home Ministry before coming up with the tweet?

These are episodes of pedestrianism which we are taunting. A little bit of caution would have improved the situation.