SINDHU IS OUR OWN... AND STOKES?
W hen P.V. Sindhu bagged Gold at the latest Badminton World Championship, like all my fellow-Indians, I, too, felt proud and rejoiced in her glory. It’s a hard-earned glory… and, it inspired all of us. Alongside, on the same day, in the Test-cricket contest, England Vs Australia – which the cricket world hails famously as ‘Ashes’ – the England batsman, Ben Stokes, scored something which had enthused and inspired most of the cricket fans all over the world. It’s strange – at the same time very heart-warming – to observe this trend: how success and achievements inspire all of us regardless of, often, our nationalities! Sindhu is our own… and Stokes? Ironically, I hadn’t watched both these events… I got enthused and inspired only by watching how others around me had been! “All the world loves a winner and no time to spare for a loser.” When I recall this old saying, I feel sad and bad, too. Nobody plays to lose. And, nobo...