GUYS, recently a boy literally died while playing basketball in a court in Haryana because the pole fell on him. Imagine going to play your favourite sport and not coming back home. That’s not an accident — that’s a failure of the system. A failure of basic safety. A failure of how we treat sports in this country.

And it got me thinking — how many athletes in India grind day and night, bleed on the field, but no one even knows their names?

We hype cricket like it’s the only sport that exists, while real warriors are out there training with broken infrastructure, zero facilities, and dreams that the system never lets become reality.I myself watch cricket a lot but why not to give such attention to others sports also.

Athletes like:

Asha Roy — once called “India’s fastest woman”. Ran barefoot half her career. Still fighting poverty.

Rani Rampal — made India proud in hockey but barely got the recognition she deserved.

Bhavani Devi — first ever Indian fencer in the Olympics. Most people don’t even know what fencing is.

Dutee Chand — sprinted against insane odds, politics, judgement, everything.

Shankar Laxman — Olympic hockey legend. Died forgotten, with no honour from the system he gave his life to.

Bro, these people gave everything — their time, their bodies, their future — and in return they got disrespect and silence.

And now a kid dies on a basketball court because the pole wasn’t even fixed properly. That’s the level of “care” sports get here.

It’s not just about medals. It’s not about nationalism. It’s about basic respect.

India doesn’t lack talent. India lacks support. Lacks infrastructure. Lacks empathy.

RIP to the boy from Haryana. RIP to every athlete who gave their whole soul to a country that pretended to clap and then forgot them the next day.

We don’t need more “proud to be Indian” speeches. We need safety, we need support, and we need to stop letting talent die silently.