WHAT IS NEEDED AND WHAT IS NOT NEEDED

WHAT IS NEEDED AND WHAT IS NOT NEEDED

A sense of national self-respect arising out of honouring each other is the prerequisite for national excellence in the international arena. Respecting fellow citizens creates social solidarity which is the foundational fabric of excellence in any endeavour, the latter requiring encouragement, support, sympathy and solace in its hard travail to reach the summit. Harmony which is the essence of beauty must pervade national life before summit-success be achieved significantly and in ample measure. General civility as opposed to ruckus raised at every bend and turn, roughness in interpersonal dealings, needless strife on every count, low selfishness, puerile self-advertisement counting for nothing, a general sense of levity, irrationality in interaction, futile frothiness in group behaviour, foul-mouthing others at the drop of a hat, lack of intellectual curiosity, a curious mixture of indolence and insolence coupled with dishonest dreams that must dash to bits in the teeth of superior competition, insincere chanting of scriptural verses posing as pundits, overall, a dishonesty in deed, lack of the due labour of love that manifests as excellence, all these must be rooted out before we may even aspire for higher laurels, much less achieve them. #ParisOlympics2024

Written by Sugata Bose