Do we want to know the real reasons why we don’t win medals? August 5, 2021, 2:32 PM IST
Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India. Author of `Choosing Hammurabi: Debates on Judicial Appointments’ (LexisNexis), `Appointing our Judges: Forging Independence and Accountability’ (LexisNexis) and `The Maoist Movement in India: Perspectives and Counter Perspectives’ (Routledge). LESS. MORE
Every four years, we find our medal tally at the Olympics to be hopelessly out of sync with our 1.3 billion population. We are outraged that our numbers do not count when it comes to international athletics. We then follow the predictable routine chest thumping, some farcical play acting, and then we all go about our ways for the next four years, destroying sport in this country in every manner we can.