Of sports infrastructures, eve-teasing and useless mobile apps, noise pollution and traffic congestion

Make sports infrastructure accessible to all We woke up to a bad news last Sunday. A group of boys were involved in a fight and one of them was stabbed. We learnt that one of the youth involved was my relative and it was breaking his parent’s hearts. As a relative and a father of a son myself, I was curious to know what made them do this. To this, he answered, “we were drunk.” I suggested that there are many avenues where he could engage himself like sports instead of going to bars. He said he likes football but football fields are only for the rich. He and his friends are university graduates without jobs, so they cannot afford to pay for the football field. He makes sense. Nu. 4,000 or 5,000 a match is way beyond their means. […]

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