If Indian Premier League (IPL) chief Lalit Modi is appointed CEO of India, you can bet I will be his deputy. This man, I tell you, is great at making millions from cricket.
He's my choice for CEO of India, as he can replicate his IPL success in other sports. This is what he could do for India: Make billions of billions of billions of rupees for the country (and not himself), through sports.
Here's how he could go about it (rough plan, guys, sorry, but worth a try!).
All powerful political posts should be scrapped. The army could stage a coup and maintain law and order in the country. No prime minister, no cabinet ministers. No rallies, no peace marches. All that is bakwas. Indian should be a highly disciplined country.
Basically, all politicians should be dumped into the nearest garbage cans.
A model code of conduct must be devised, and any defaulters should be fined a fanciful amount.
Political problems should be solved through sports. The Maoists, I am sure, will prefer an archery contest to fighting sitting ducks. Or they could be tough competition for Abhinav Bindra, for entry into the Indian shooting team.
Problems with Pakistan? (Hey, not referring to the Sania Mirza-Shoaib Mallik-Ayesha Siddiqui triangular match!) Play tournaments with them in various sports. Beat them. All problems solved.
The UnitedStates is acting extra smart, especially that Barack Obama guy? Organise a kabbadi match with the Americans, beat them, hollow. Humiliate them. They will give us all the nuclear power we want, free!
The same with the Russians, Chinese, Sri Lankans, Bangladeshis, the Gulfis... all! Let's beat them at their own games.
We Indians should not worry about work. All work and no play makes Ram a dull boy. All offices should have TV sets compulsorily installed. Indian channels should be forced to telecast only sporting events, only with tournaments Modi has organized worldwide, against various countries, 25 hours a day.
Each channel should be given specific sports, with the rights being rotated year after year. Max could get cricket, Ten Sports could get football and hockey, Doordarshan can get gilli danda, and Colors could settle for the marbles and spoon race.
Prize money should be big. We should be encouraged to cheer our national teams. If possible, matches should be fixed so that India always wins the big prize money. Imagine what it will do to the Indian economy. We can use it to build more stadia, better training facilities for all upcoming sportspersons, free housing for top sports personalities... Imagine what a better world India will be.
If not you and me, at least our children, or our husbands, wives, or fathers, mothers, girlfriends or boyfriends will be participating in some game or the other, winning it for India, and getting big prize money.
Modi, I am sure, can kick off something on these lines. IPLs in various sports, just like Punjab has decided to cash in on kabbadi.
There should be cash incentives for all Indians to participate in some sport or the other. Sports is where the moolah is, there is no denying that fact.
All teams should have the best players. If Sachin Tendulkar really deserves to be in the Indian cricket team, he should be there. Special panels, with experts, should decide who gets into which team.
With politicians in selection committees, we know, you could get Tendulkar getting into the hockey team. Or Farah Khan could get into the walking race team. Or Shah Rukh Khan, who wanted to strip off recently, could get into the pole dancing team (hehe, just joking, guys, since when has pole dancing become a sport!?).
So, politicians, out with you! Long live sports! Let the billions come in! Let India become a super-power!
India must eat, drink and breathe sports.
Let's make Lalit Modi CEO (chief entertainment officer) of India!
