Wednesday November 4, 2009
Saravanan: Bring back sports glory days of Indians
MIC vice-president Datuk M. Saravanan urged Indians to bring back the golden era of 1960s and 1970s when the community excelled in many different sporting arenas, reported Tamil Nesan.
He said that back then many Indians represented the country overseas. Saravanan told reporters after opening a seven-a-side football tournament organised by the MIC Gelang Patah division in Skudai last Sunday.
He said more youths should be active in sports to become successful like Dr M. Jegathesan in athletics and goalkeeper Arumugam in football.
He said that while Malaysian Indians had been giving priority to education and economic stability, they should not neglect sports.
Saravanan, who is also Deputy Federal Territories Minister, urged Indian sports organisations to hold more competitions and identify talented athletes so they could be given training and guidance to excel.
> Malaysia Nanban reported that a 27-year-old woman committed suicide after both her kidneys failed.
B. Buvana, who was undergoing weekly dialysis, was found dead with a piece of cloth around her neck in her Taman Skudai Baru house in Johor on Monday morning.
Her mother-in-law P. Amutham, who did not get any response when she knocked on Buvana’s room door for a long time, called neighbours, who broke down the door to find her slumped near a window.
Other News & Views is compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with this > sign, it denotes a separate news item.
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