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These Indian athletes made their country proud

Even when cricketers give away too many runs, score ducks (and then fix matches) they hog the headlines. As the media goes crazy covering the shameful IPL scam, there is a happy change on the horizon, too, which has not received fair coverage: Indian champions in football, mountaineering, table tennis, wrestling and badminton, have all brought home laurels this May, making India a force to reckon with in these disciplines, finds Elora Sen

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It has simply not been cricket over the past few weeks. The national obsession has turned into national shame as cricket’s dark underbelly surfaced in the recently concluded IPL. But even as the likes of S Sreesanth and Gurunath Meiyappan brought the nation’s undisputed ‘religion’ down to its knees, digging up memories of Hansie Cronje and Mohammed Azharuddin, there were sportspersons in India who went about doing what they should — playing their sport and making the country proud.

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