Sport brings the society together and bridges differences. This story from villages of south Indian state Tamil Nadu reiterates the same. From NDTV:

A unique initiative to encourage traditional games like Volley Ball in villages is paying rich dividends in rural Tamil Nadu.

Besides an increased awareness on physical fitness, these teams have actually helped in establishing friendly relations even among warring communities…

…over a thousand village teams have been formed across nine districts. Now, the two-day Rural Rejuvenation camp in Salem district was an opportunity for over 2 lakh villagers to display their sporting skills and camaraderie.

For a few moments, you don’t differentiate on the basis of race, religion and suchlike. Even harsh truths like poverty is forgotten when people play sport.

Update: On a different note, I notice that people can create blogs on the NDTV site just like people can on blogger or wordpress. Main stream media has often linked to blogs (Eg: the NY Times site). They have even had a select group of people blogging including journalists (CNN-IBN) but I am not sure if this is a first. Not surprisingly, most of the sport posts are on cricket.

With MSM giving blogs space, awareness will increase. Blogging in India is bound to grow at a very fast rate in the near future.

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