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I would like to put forth before the board the proposal to create a new child forum within the General Section for Sports - with a special focus on Sports in India.
There is, at present, merely one thread in the General Section entitled "SPORTS and CRICKET section" for all sporting developments in the country, and the title says it all: the thread is dominated by cricket-related discussion (as it inevitably does so) to the neglect and sometimes exclusion of other, equally important developments. I think this board has a unique opportunity, I would argue even responsibility, to highlight some of the lesser known or looked-at sports in India in which we equally excel. For instance, the Commonwealth Games which Delhi will play host to next year is a momentous event in our sporting history that perhaps deserves a greater focus. In addition, sports like hockey, soccer, badminton, tennis, judo, white-water rafting, boxing/pugilism, kabbadhi, Formula-1 ......even now women's rugby and Mixed Martial Arts! : sports wherein India has either traditionally excelled or has made significant strides and launched major initiatives in the recent past, deserve to be highlighted, if not exfoliatedly discussed. A single thread is a tad inadequate for the now not-so-scant sporting glories and accomplishments we have achieved -both in the distant and more so in the recent past -and particularly with sports destined to take off in India in the future like never before, a new child board would, I think, be expedient.
There is, at present, merely one thread in the General Section entitled "SPORTS and CRICKET section" for all sporting developments in the country, and the title says it all: the thread is dominated by cricket-related discussion (as it inevitably does so) to the neglect and sometimes exclusion of other, equally important developments. I think this board has a unique opportunity, I would argue even responsibility, to highlight some of the lesser known or looked-at sports in India in which we equally excel. For instance, the Commonwealth Games which Delhi will play host to next year is a momentous event in our sporting history that perhaps deserves a greater focus. In addition, sports like hockey, soccer, badminton, tennis, judo, white-water rafting, boxing/pugilism, kabbadhi, Formula-1 ......even now women's rugby and Mixed Martial Arts! : sports wherein India has either traditionally excelled or has made significant strides and launched major initiatives in the recent past, deserve to be highlighted, if not exfoliatedly discussed. A single thread is a tad inadequate for the now not-so-scant sporting glories and accomplishments we have achieved -both in the distant and more so in the recent past -and particularly with sports destined to take off in India in the future like never before, a new child board would, I think, be expedient.
