Anurag Batra - Worship sports as a religion, study as a science and play with enthusiasm


Addressing India's sports Congress held 6 years ago, Anurag Batra the chairman of BW Businessworld stressed 2 things. One is the fact, that he believes that India has been media core. It’s a debatable topic and one can either agree or disagree with his statement. It’s because India does not have a sports culture. According to Anurag Batra, India’s media core is everything. India hasn’t produced a lifesaving drug or we haven’t done an invention that changes life. We are doing the Flipkart for the world which is great but they are cheap imitations of what happens in the West and he believes the reason we haven’t got a product or service that is world-class out of India, in the way Silicon Valley does it, is because we do not have a sports culture.

 

 As Indians we do not support failure, we only celebrate success and the beauty about sports is that it helps you celebrate failure. Because there is nothing like a failure, there’s another game tomorrow. you can extend like that so there is no failure. He thinks sports as a culture glue, as a game-changer in the real sense of the nation’s destiny can play a big role. And he is particularly happy that BW has been doing conferences like this in exchange for media for the last 10 years and we’ve been talking about how non-cricket sports should come to the forefront. when this conference is conducted in the last 3 years, for the first time we can say that non-cricket sports are finally coming to the Fort. He means tomorrow we are the protesting league starting who imagine 5 years back there. Be it a pro wrestling league and you know every possible sport is getting more attention more money and more mind space which occurs well for this country.

 

 AnuragBatra has 2 young children and if there is a choice on their career, he would want them to be sportspeople for the reason that I told him explained above. He also mentioned the event conducted by his team may act as a catalyst to the development of sports in the country.

 

Chairman of BW Businessworld Mr AnuragBatra believes India is struggling to get one of the top positions. Being a developing nation from more than 5 decades, India is still on the path of development. He concluded by saying we should worship sports as a religion, study as a science and play with enthusiasm as it accepts failures and encourages and inspires to win the next.

Location: Delhi, India

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