PV Sindhu’s Win Fired the Starting Gun for the Uncle Olympics

We love PV Sindhu. Who doesn’t? Who loves her particularly? That uncle who stops you in your gali every week to tell you what you should be doing with your savings, your health, your mother and your scooter.

Here’s a brief, helpful list of some things we spotted at the Uncle Olympics:

1. You know she’s training for the Olympics, so while you sit on your couch commenting on Facebook, you decide to join the many (oh, so many) people giving the world-class badminton player some advice of their own:

2.   Afterwards, you berate her for not following your advice:

3. After she wins, write plenty of headlines that remind you she didn’t do this alone. No, sir.

4. Then write another headline that reminds you she didn’t do this alone, while pitting her against another woman (and start a piece by describing that woman thus: “She is not the proverbial woman behind a successful man who tells him how wrong he has been”), pretending to stir in some love-triangle drama.

5. Put her into a shuttlecock turned skirt.
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6. Then, parade her on a pimped-out bus crammed amidst men.

Sindhu may have had to content herself with the silver but the Uncles are still playing for gold. And they don’t even have to wait for another four years.