An introspection

I miss the good old days in Sulekha forum. There was a time people used to write about the analysis of a game in terms of what went wrong or right, not WHO went wrong and right. As Indians, we tend to do a lot of Hero-worshipping. We pick our heroes and make the infallible in our mind and refuse to even accept all these people are actually mortals with human imperfections, be it Dravid, Tendulkar, Ganguly. Shewag , Yuvraj, or Kumble or anyone else.
Another sad aspect was how we slowly started to resort to personal attacks (I am guilty of that myself at times, though I don’t post very often) in order to have our point across. If I say something in support of Ganguly I am attacked by a group of individual as if I am a brainless moron. If I say in support of Tendulkar it’s the same response from another group of individuals. Sulekha’s obvious flaw of generating fake ids was exploited to the core. There was time when I didn’t know who I was responding too. It’s ironic that we keep harping about corrupt politicians. Unfortunately they don’t really fall from the sky. They are the product of the same society made by all of us.
Slow demise of this forum as a platform to discuss sports is sad. But, it’s an indication of our national character in some sense as we didn’t take too long to bring down something pleasant and rapidly transformed it into a stage for throwing mud at each other.