while reading mrinal talukdar's msg on ambani's gift for his wife, what came to my mind today is the collosal wastage of funds and energy that has been incurred in holding an useless cricket match between india and pakistan in guwahati.
virtualy the entire police force availabe in the capital has been pressed into service in the name of law and order, while ordinary citizens, most of them tax-payers, with whose tax the policeman gets his salary etc, living within about one km radius of the nehru stadium are being kept under house arrest because some 22 players (who earn huge sums as match fee and prize money,and who has not a single naya paise contribution for the well-being of a poor and backward state called assam) are vying for a trophy that cannot and does not in any way contribute towards the development of the people of the state. the holding of this cricket match itself is a gross violation of human rights for a large number of citizens of guwahati, because say, if a person residing in chenikuthi is required to removed to the guwahati medical college hospital for any emergency ranging from a child birth to a massive heart attack, will not be allowed to take the b barooah road, simply because some 17,000 persons -- who have nothing else to do -- will be watching two teams play a game called cricket. samudra gupta kashyap Re: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/assamonline/message/3791
