The best part of the movie was when the girls bashed up the boys. They asked for it. Whistling at the girls from the North East deserved the punishment they got.
The other thing that interested me was the National Stadium and the facilities provided to our athletes. It is the same old story- taps leaking, unbearable toilets, dark and dingy dorms. Somehow this never changes. Maybe it is patented. After all CPWD has been at it for 150 years. The facilities were non-existent. This stands in stark contrast when they go to Australia to take part in world championship. Does the government want to tell us that it has no money to spend on sports?
It extends beyond sports. Take any primary school. There are four bare walls. There are no desks or chairs. Children squat on the floor. The walls are painted clinical white. There is a blackboard and few chalk pieces. Why can't the walls be painted a more cheerful colour? Why not posters to relieve the tedium? Why not desks and chairs? Why not play items like see-saw in the playground? Why not make the school a fun place?
The teacher's training program does instruct the teachers on the use of teaching aids. But where are the teaching aids?
The funniest part was the government school that we visited. The principal said that the school had a library.
"But the books are for the teachers. There are no books for the children."
Great! So you teach the alphabets. You teach them to string them together to make words, sentences, and lo, they can read a sentence. But when there are no interesting books to read, no story books to lose oneself in, why should a child retain interest in the magical world of reading?
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