some welcome speech this

Were anyone of you fortunate to hear Suresh Kalmadi speak during the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Youth Games in Pune today. I say fortunate because such speeches will be orated and heard only once in the entire history of the games. Thank God for that.

I think the preparation for the games really got to Mr. Kalmadi. After all he and his johnies had to get Pune ready for the games(read my last post). I have a hunch that in all this anxiety he forgot the real welcome speech at home. And so when his turn came up to address the spectators and athletes and he put his hands in his pant pockets he must have realized that his speech paper was missing. But the man rose to the occassion. One glance at his coat pocket and Mr. Kalmadi was confidence personified. Out came Congress Party's manifesto for the next general election (so what if the general elections in India have not been announced so far, manifesto's are always ready. Just a tweak here and there). This was gold for Mr. Kalmadi. He did not need the speech now. With manifesto's he could go on and on so what if it was sports event.

And so we were given a rare preview of what Congress Party plans in the days to come - Create more and more Olympic gold medalists for India. And bless who all would be behind this. No we do not need coaches, equipments, oppotunities - right we only need the usual suspects- Manmohanji, Soniaji, Jaipalji, Gillji, Vilasraoji and all the Jis' you can think of. There are so many of them, add whichever you like and a Olympic gold medal is assured.

One of the highlights of Kalmadi's Commonwealth Congress Youth Games Manifesto something speech was that every now and then he broke into some local lingo just to break the monotony of our misery. But think of the plight of the althletes of the 71 nations who were all ears to Mr. Kalmadi. Whenever Mr. Kalmadi drifted away from English and spoke in the local language they must have felt like they were experiencing some frequency disturbance in their earpods. After all it was "All garble no sense".