Comments on: Hindi: Cricket in the air and a martyr is remembered! http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/10/01/cricket-in-the-air-and-a-martyr-is-remembered/ The world is talking. Are you listening? Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:14:08 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Amit Gupta http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/10/01/cricket-in-the-air-and-a-martyr-is-remembered/comment-page-1/#comment-1200284 Amit Gupta Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:14:49 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/10/01/cricket-in-the-air-and-a-martyr-is-remembered/#comment-1200284 Naresh, while I understand what you are saying, I <em>can</em> cite a number of examples of people who are remembered even though they lacked what you've mentioned. The simple fact is that something's remembered by the masses only if its marketed well. People don't remember something because it was good or bad, they remember both kinda things but they need to be marketed well to be remembered by the masses!! Bhagat Singh has been marketed well by both the media & our government, hence the masses remember him, his close friends were shoved into the shadows & hence no one remembers them. You talk of Bhagat Singh's letters & his thoughts, how did you come to know of them in first place? Marketing ofcourse!! They were marketed by media so you know about them. Maybe Sukhdev also had such thinker's mind, after all he was the one who had started study circles in National Collge(Lahore) to study revolutionaries the world had seen in past. A dumbo can't think of studying from successes & failures of men in past!! And its also a known fact that Bhagat Singh joined Sukhdev later on, not the other way around!! But letters or memoirs or any such literature depicting Sukhdev's intellect etc. are either not into existence or most probably they are lying in the darkness of ignorance, hence he's not considered a thinker like Bhagat Singh but just a mere revolutionary like many others! Naresh, while I understand what you are saying, I can cite a number of examples of people who are remembered even though they lacked what you’ve mentioned. The simple fact is that something’s remembered by the masses only if its marketed well. People don’t remember something because it was good or bad, they remember both kinda things but they need to be marketed well to be remembered by the masses!! Bhagat Singh has been marketed well by both the media & our government, hence the masses remember him, his close friends were shoved into the shadows & hence no one remembers them.

You talk of Bhagat Singh’s letters & his thoughts, how did you come to know of them in first place? Marketing ofcourse!! They were marketed by media so you know about them. Maybe Sukhdev also had such thinker’s mind, after all he was the one who had started study circles in National Collge(Lahore) to study revolutionaries the world had seen in past. A dumbo can’t think of studying from successes & failures of men in past!! And its also a known fact that Bhagat Singh joined Sukhdev later on, not the other way around!! But letters or memoirs or any such literature depicting Sukhdev’s intellect etc. are either not into existence or most probably they are lying in the darkness of ignorance, hence he’s not considered a thinker like Bhagat Singh but just a mere revolutionary like many others!

]]> By: naresh.goswami http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/10/01/cricket-in-the-air-and-a-martyr-is-remembered/comment-page-1/#comment-1200258 naresh.goswami Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:09:10 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/10/01/cricket-in-the-air-and-a-martyr-is-remembered/#comment-1200258 Dear Amit, i share your emotional outrage at the way Sukhdev and Rajguru have been treated by the media. But this is not simply a case of apathy,the reason goes deeper. though it might sound a little cruel but let us face it: Bhagat Singh had a perspective of the struggle that the revolutionaries were waging against the colonial power. the letters that he wrote to his father reveal that he was also a thinker with deep insights into the limitations of the ongoing struggle. of course this is not to take away from the supreme sacrifice of other martyrs. The cruel message is: The world remember only those who outlive their bodily existence. Dear Amit,
i share your emotional outrage at the way Sukhdev and Rajguru have been treated by the media. But this is not simply a case of apathy,the reason goes deeper. though it might sound a little cruel but let us face it: Bhagat Singh had a perspective of the struggle that the revolutionaries were waging against the colonial power. the letters that he wrote to his father reveal that he was also a thinker with deep insights into the limitations of the ongoing struggle. of course this is not to take away from the supreme sacrifice of other martyrs.
The cruel message is: The world remember only those who outlive their bodily existence.

]]> By: Saibal http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/10/01/cricket-in-the-air-and-a-martyr-is-remembered/comment-page-1/#comment-1197049 Saibal Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:39:51 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/10/01/cricket-in-the-air-and-a-martyr-is-remembered/#comment-1197049 I am glad cricket has evolved into such an exciting game. Test cricket used to be loss of five days productivity in any work place. Fifty overs ODI was a great change, and now 20/20 is even more exciting idea. India lost its glory in the game of field hocky a long time back. Kapil Dev's victory was something to cheer about for a few years and now 20/20 win. India needs many such wins. $1/4 million for a player in India is a lot of money, but many other players in many games earn a lot more in other countries. Think of it, 1/4 million is a country of one and a quarter billion. Shower them with incentives, you will find more success. I am glad cricket has evolved into such an exciting game. Test cricket used to be loss of five days productivity in any work place. Fifty overs ODI was a great change, and now 20/20 is even more exciting idea.
India lost its glory in the game of field hocky a long time back. Kapil Dev’s victory was something to cheer about for a few years and now 20/20 win. India needs many such wins. $1/4 million for a player in India is a lot of money, but many other players in many games earn a lot more in other countries. Think of it, 1/4 million is a country of one and a quarter billion.
Shower them with incentives, you will find more success.

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