Skipping the Padma function by the skipper of the Indian Cricket Team and his trusted team-mate Harbhajan hasn’t gone well with the Indian public, the bureaucracy or me.
Well, would they have done the same had they been invited by the Queen of England to kneel in front of her for being conferred the title of a ‘SIR’, definitely not ...so why this casual approach to ‘SRI’. Guess being paraded down the streets of Cape Town like glorified slaves bought for a couple of millions of US$$$ was more heady than an honour from the Head of State of the largest democracy in the world.
Well these are days when one of the Bollywoods best known Khans pays his way to collect ‘Datukhood’ from Malaysia but there were also days when good old Indian Cricketers refused the Knighthood and a set of contemporary Indian cricketing legends of the likes of Dravid, Kumble and Tendulkar made it a point to collect their Padma awards personally.
If I may borrow a piece from one of my favourite Ayn Rands….’Money, my friend is the root cause of all evil’- Howard Roark
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