Olympic Torch

There has been a lot of hue and cry on whether anybody should carry the Olympic torch or not. I agree it is an honor to be asked to carry the torch for Olympics. So, clearly it displays great courage and strength of will to refuse to carry the torch because the country hosting it is against something you stand for. China is known to have stifled people in Tibet, controlled their freedom and at times behaved inhumanely. If a country has to censure press it must be seriously doing something wrong out there. Baichung Bhutia refused to carry the torch to express solidarity towards the Tibetan people under oppresive Chinese rule. Now, Aamir Khan has accepted to carry the torch. I surely expected a better decision from him. But he being Aamir has strong views of why he is carrying the torch (on his blog). B Raman has written on why Aamir's logic is flawed. I have to agree with Raman on this issue. The fact that Aamir is carrying torch will only weaken the Tibetan resolve (in spite of the fact that he says his prayers are with them!). One thing is for sure, the fact that India does everything the Ciniese want us to do is utterly ridiculous when they have occupied so much of our land and are not at all willing to support us on anything!!