Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Rob Nani to pay Sudha!

As our city gets more and more IT-jacked and more commercialised , less and less open space will be available for likes of Sudha, Rahul and Rina to play.On one hand we see huge playgrounds with basketball courts and Football goalposts empty and hardly anybody there to use these! On the other hand kids, urchins have hardly any place to play.We see complaints that the children nowadays have become TV-Centric or computer-crazy! But in the first place, do we give them playgrounds/ open space to play?Medical college grounds near the Railway station in Mysore are hardly put to use and so also the grounds at Infosys. Except for once year a tournament or a marchpast hardly any dust comes out of these places by playing any game.Surely there needs an attempt in striking a balance between open spaces kept under lock and key or out of bounds and needs of children and growing kids to spend their time in playing, getting exercise and learning 'what is a sportsman spirit is' by playing. For that to happen they need open space, playgrounds...

1 comment:

Lakshmi Bharadwaj said...

Exactly! I completely agree with this! It is really frustrating for us when we have no place to play throwball, and resort to playing by the streetside. This inturn, leads to the motorists fuming! So now, we stopped. Seriously, we need some space too. It's wonderful that some adults have realised this.