Sports is sports - some will win, some will lose. It's not a vehicle for claiming how great one's own country is. Sportsmanship in India nowadays is as tough to find as hens' teeth.
Kabaddi was invented in rural Bangladesh (East Bengal) as "Ha-Du-Du" by the way eons ago and all of sudden Tamils and North Indians are claiming they invented it 4000 years ago.
This is akin to Indians claiming rules of origin (by applying to Int'l registries) for everything undoubtedly having origin and produced in Bangladesh, like Mangoes, sweets and even Jamdani Sarees. This is called stealing heritage.
Kabaddi is Bangladesh' national game, by the way.
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In today's "new" India this is a different case - "new" Indians must show everyone how indomitable their country is whether in back office or how "world best" their products are, whether RE350's or Mahindra XUV700 etc. in the channels of YouTube. There are some sane Indians there commenting on the reality of these products though. You can't put Lipstick on a pig and expect Miss Universe to pop out. It is what it is.
Then there are a million uploads in YT about Indians inventing plastic surgery and flying vehicles from 5000 years ago. When reality is that India can't even produce her own cellphone parts to compete with China for independent indigenous import substitution.
Why is there so much of a need for validation (especially gora i.e. "white" validation) of how great India is? Any time some clueless white person even remotely says anything positive about India on YT, Instagram or Reddit, why are there a million "likes" from "new" Indians? What is this disease?
India has supposedly given up being Ghulam to the West - but ye Ghulami India ko nahi chhodengey....some people in India are natural slaves to whites.
Is it years of India being regarded as a bottom-of-the-barrel entity of filth, flies and slums (which goras themselves put up to the world as evidence)?
Now that formerly poor countries like China are producing world class products, I don't see them going to the top of the mountains proclaiming (or rather "screaming" like "new" Indians) on how great their people and products are.
The Japanese, Koreans or Taiwanese did not do this either.
Is this behavior in India because of perceived inferiority complex on the part of the "new Indians"? When they go outside India - they can clearly see this.
Just baffling to me, these things that "new" Indians do (untruths and all) - maybe only to help Modi win the next election.
Bhagwan only knows what would happen to social media if Indian products remotely ever got to Chinese levels of quality and productivity. We non-Indians all have to buy earplugs then....
My point is that India will still be the "same India" that we all know globally - regardless of the incessant screaming and claims of "superpower" and "mahaan".
We all know where India stands in terms of health, hygiene, poverty. IMF, World Bank, ADB all have figures.
So why scream and proclaim how great India is - even in sports? Will screaming make global citizens forget what India is and stands for - all of a sudden?
Currently - all this "screaming behavior" is doing is making Indians the laughing stock of the globe.
