Sports personalities have a very solid fan base in our country as very few make it big and shine among the stars. Recently, I was revisiting my Facebook cover photos and an update of 2014 had a picture of this wrestler, holding a gold medal and there is a bright light in her eyes, clearly demonstrating the sense of pride to won a medal for the country and make the dream come true of many Indians.
Well, unlike many, I also posted this picture of hers on social media and tried to experience the feeling.
She became the first Indian woman wrestler to win gold in both Commonwealth and Asian Games.
Time passed by a in 2016 came one of the biggest Bollywood movie from the legendary actor Aamir Khan "Dangal", showing the struggle of two young wrestler sisters Geeta and Babita Phogat and this film took a huge leap in cinemas not only in India but abroad too. And One dialogue was all over on people's mind "Choriyan Choro se Kam hai ke"?
Mostly I have seen sportsmen and sportswomen to get good and huge sum of money from Government and few local politicians praising them for what they did and announce an x amount but this gesture is surely depends upon the tournament name whether it is a national or international and certainly the awards and recognition takes into consideration what medal one has won, Bronze, Silver or Gold....
Afterwards the sportsmen shortly starting to come in commercials and branding the products which they say that they are personally using for years and helped them in becoming what they are today.
And I get that, years of hard work and now thing are in place and they have every right to do so. And lastly the medal winner gets a decent and promising government job offer even though the government jobs are decreasing and not to mention how much a typical youth had to go through to get a job from government by crossing multiple exams and years of coaching.
But it is part of the system as we called and everyone wants to reap the benefits of one's hard work and it becomes a wormhole of success especially to politicians to use them as a ladder to get into spotlight.
However, Vinesh continued to paly her game and she even won the BBC Indian Sportswoman Of The Year award for 2022.
Now came the year 2023 and it is the time of winters and in Delhi the winters are hard and ruthless and the news started coming of wrestlers sitting on protest at Jantar Mantar on a issue which is almost unheard in our civil society where the women wrestlers alleged about sexual harassment and the media got activated as big names are present in this protest.
Bajrang Punia, Sakshi Malik and Vinesh Phogat have stunned the country as this is the year of Amritkal and modern India cannot be seen under unhappy and protesting sportswomen.
Soon the Officials came and ensured the protesters that everything will be ok and a committee was setup which is a evergreen remedy to all the protester and act as a magic to shut or reduce the revolting voice. Few Months gone and again the protesters came back to the capital and this time they are much prepared and much clear intention demonstrated they are facing everyday challenge and continued their practice session on the streets of Delhi.
The people started gathering and the number kept increasing and this time political faces also started visiting them and showing their support. What surprised us is lack of the support from big sportsmen from "Cricket" as it is the biggest sport of our country where the players are considered GOD but they decided to keep themselves away form this and Bollywood also which follows a trend of sports films, one after another and showing the art and passion of film making on this subject and even making women played strong women characters to "empower" them. No one, the Celebrities, Film makers, Stars of the Millennium or even Actress support this cause or even tweeted on this subject.
Well till this day we have seen no big action from the authorities and the victims are helpless but they are still keeping their faith on the law and hopeful one day justice will be delivered.
Lastly, to me this is very disheartening to see how this women got treated, she do not deserve this type of treatment. The pain in her eyes is questioning everyone and wants us to look into the eyes in front of the mirror and ask WHAT DO YOU DREAM OF?
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