Shame on India .... outscored by every other country in sports

A country having the second largest population and the second fastest growing economy, is still unable to nuture and breed sportsmen.  Shame!  All India seems to be able to do is lease out her citizens  to tech companies  from the West  for their "outsourcing" purposes.  It's a sad thing that  Indians have the required potential to reach untold heights but their corrupt government  won't lend them a hand to reach it ... not any time soon.  

Kevin Fixler writing at DailyBeast:
....India’s Olympic Mess: Why You Won’t See the Nation’s Flag in Sochi
There will be no India in Sochi. A luger, cross country skier, and alpine skier will compete under a stock Olympic flag after the nation was suspended from the Sochi games....

....“There are more politics in sports than in politics,” Indian sports historian K. Arumugam, told me when I visited the country in March 2012. “Politicians here have even said that. [The government] has a long way to go, but they’re going in the right direction. But the federations, they don’t have any motives to go in the right direction because they are not run by competent people. They certainly don’t change their mindset.”

India’s history at the Olympic Games tells a similar story. Even with the country’s colossal population, increasing economic position in the world, and lengthy tradition on the preeminent international sporting stage, it has secured just 26 medals all time....

....In December 2012, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) suspended the Indian Olympic Association’s (IOA) membership after the IOA elected an official who was named in millions of dollars of corruption with criminal charges still pending. To regain acceptable status, the IOC required the IOA redraft its constitution and hold new elections before the start of next Games, in this case the Sochi Opening Ceremonies on Feb. 7. So, of course, ever-disobedient, the IOA opted to hold the elections two days after on Feb. 9........