India and World Badminton

Indians are gradually waking up to the reality that there are games other than cricket in this country that could be as fasciting, if not better. The immense popularity of badminton as a sport appears to have attracted many a youngster into its fold and now boasts of a players’ roster that could do any tion proud. With Sai, Sindhu, Kashyap and K Srikanth’s intertiol exploits continuing unhindered, India appears to be fast becoming a domint presence in world badminton. It is not as if the game was not played in India earlier. But then this has been the story with almost all sports, except cricket of course. It is time our sporting federations found ways to ensure that public adulation is not only reserved for cricket. After the astounding success of the Indian Premier League, various other sporting associations too have introduced the league format, and with soaring popularity. The popularity of any sport brings in commercial involvement, which in turn guarantees the participation of big mes. Indian sport is in for a grand rejuvetion.