Dedications

Greg Chappell quoted about Indian culture. “The (Indian) culture is very different; it’s not a team culture. They lack leaders in the team because they are not trained to be leaders. From an early age, their parents make all the decisions, their schoolteachers make their decisions, and their cricket coaches make the decisions. The culture of India is such that, if you put your head above the parapet someone will shoot it. Knock your head off. So they learn to keep their head down and not take responsibility. “The Poms (British) taught them really well to keep their head down. For if someone was deemed to be responsible, they’d get punished. So the Indians have learned to avoid responsibility. So before taking responsibility for any decisions, they prefer not to.”

So much wisdom and knowledge of Indian culture derived out India being ousted from the recent Test series. So going by this wisdom, cricket is going to be the yard stick to judge India. So the ancient culture Indians pride to be in if does not work for cricket, confirms we cannot be leaders. So anything that can be termed as ‘achievement’ is only winning in a boring game of cricket. Coming to the culture of Australia (if it has or had any), the Poms had their prisoners dumped in Australia and that is common knowledge. So it is no brainer to realize how Greg Chappell thinks. A race which marginalized the aborigines of the land, and they have no say in their own land. A race which kills innocent Indian students who go down under for an education, and they are not putting their head above the parapet, yet they get killed.

Had it not been Indian leaders and martyrs the Poms would have been still ruling India, or still affiliated with the British Empire like Australia. Many of these Indian leaders did pride in their parents and teachers who taught them the value of self pride and intolerance to wrong. Our independence was not achieved through a game of cricket. It was the grit and leadership of Indians. Some of these leaders are what many nations salute and look to imbibe their values. A leader like Mahatma Gandhi is in fact someone who is revered, and his statue erected in many parts of the world to pay respect to him.

Today the helms of many global businesses are headed by Indians. The brains behind many global innovation in the field of technology are Indians, and needless to mention the IT revolution that is propelled by India. The migrant Indian work force (read brains) that Australia needs are not asylum seekers who land on Australian shores on a boat, unlike prisoner ancestors from the British Empire who were packed in a boat and thrown on the shores of Australia. We don’t need to prove leadership through a game of cricket which many nations in the world don’t even care about or even want to know about.

We Indians still value the guidance of our parents and teachers. Now if it is not culture in Australia to do so, we don’t blame you Greg Chappell, as many of you may not even who your real parents are. Racism in Australia is a part of their culture, so Greg Chappell’s racist comments confirm that he is just another racist bested.