It is sad that most of the newspapers dated March 27th decided to splash pictures of so-called Bollywood icons' dance performance at the closing ceremony of 2006 Commonwealth Games. We should be ashamed of not having the pictures of real heroes behind India's success like Samaresh Jung, who achieved the distinction of securing 5 gold medals and would have set a world record in Commonwealth history if his pistol hadn't jammed and deprived him of the elusive 6th.
This once again reflects the sad state where our newspapers neglected the real heroes and resorting to much more glamorous things. Sameresh Jung definitely deserves to be remembered, celebrated and honored much more than Aishwarya Rai or any other cine personality.
As long as we continue to ignore these achievements, our performance in sports at Olympics or other international events can never improve. For God sake - please don't qualify Saif Ali khan / Aishwarya Rai / Rani Mukherjee as cultural ambassadors. Any decent dancer could have performed that show if given chance. We don't need our cine personalities to showcase that.
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