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Should Sachin Tendulkar be given Bharat Ratna?
| January 25 2012
After the sports ministry recommended the names of legendary hockey player Dhyan Chand and mountaineer Tenzing Norgay for Bharat Ratna, there is a hue and cry over omission of Sachin Tendulkar’s name. After all, if there is one sport, and passion, that binds all Indians it is cricket and Tendulkar is the ‘god’ of cricket.
But should we be wasting Bharat Ratna on sports persons at all, or someone who just happens to score a few runs more than the others in a game? There are many awards, including Khel Ratna, Arjun award and the Padma awards, for the sports persons. A few more can be set up if these are found to be wanting. Are we not trivializing our highest civilian award by even considering sportspersons?
Nearly 50 percent of our kids suffer from malnutrition; our health and education systems are in pathetic condition; clean water and toilets are not available to a significant chunk of population and many Indians continue to perish to hunger, eminently treatable diseases and debt every year. We continue to figure at the bottom of human development index, corruption index, education index, hunger index and poverty index.
Shouldn’t we be restricting our highest civilian award to those who really make a difference to our lives by addressing or helping in overcoming any of these problems?
Think it over.
I completely disagree with ur views .Bharat Ratna should be given to sachin tendulkar because he is playing from the last 22 yrs selflessly for his country .He always kept India first while playing cricket ,his first priority to win the match rather than making his century.He is the true deserving person for getting Bharat Ratna without any doubt.This award is not only given to him but his entire fans 1.21 bn people of India because he really stays in each and every Indian's heart.
As per your logic, Bharat Ratna should be given to only social workers. I do not agree with your logic. I think this should be given to any highest achiever in his/her field and Sports persons deserve this award as much as anyone else.
Also, how do you justify Bharat Ratna being given to Artists. Even they do not do anything to overcome any of the problems that you had listed. In fact not many of them are known to the public at all. If they can get, why not sports persons.
In fact if we should leave out one category, that should be political class.
i thnk sachin ko b milna chaia bharat ratan lekin us se pehle major dhyan chand ji ko.
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