{"id":5814,"date":"2025-12-02T17:45:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T12:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.keralaclick.com\/blog\/?p=5814"},"modified":"2025-12-02T17:45:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T12:45:51","slug":"2036-olympics-in-trivandrum-ticket-booked-reality-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keralaclick.com\/blog\/2036-olympics-in-trivandrum-ticket-booked-reality-cancelled\/","title":{"rendered":"2036 Olympics in Thiruvananthapuram: When Political Daydreams Go Full HD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"229\" data-end=\"375\">Every election season needs its own blockbuster. This year, Kerala got a fresh one:<br data-start=\"312\" data-end=\"315\" \/><strong data-start=\"315\" data-end=\"375\">\u201cWe will bring the 2036 Olympics to Thiruvananthapuram.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"377\" data-end=\"494\">Some promises come with logic. Some with ambition.<br data-start=\"427\" data-end=\"430\" \/>This one comes with <strong data-start=\"450\" data-end=\"493\">pure fantasy and a free side of popcorn<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"496\" data-end=\"729\">Let\u2019s face it. Hosting the Olympics is not like hosting a school youth festival. It needs metro lines, multi-sport stadium clusters, 50,000 hotel rooms, world-class logistics, and an economy that can take a \u20b91-1.5 lakh crore punch.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"731\" data-end=\"974\">Meanwhile, we are still negotiating with potholes, begging for clean platforms at railway stations, and praying that footpaths survive one monsoon. But sure, Olympics will magically land here. Why not add FIFA World Cup also while we&#8217;re at it?<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"976\" data-end=\"1070\">This is not \u201cvision\u201d.<br data-start=\"997\" data-end=\"1000\" \/>This is <strong data-start=\"1008\" data-end=\"1030\">PR-driven escapism<\/strong>, perfectly timed for political mileage.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1072\" data-end=\"1126\">Before selling Olympic dreams, maybe try delivering:<\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"1127\" data-end=\"1303\">\n<li data-start=\"1127\" data-end=\"1154\">\n<p data-start=\"1129\" data-end=\"1154\">proper waste management<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1155\" data-end=\"1185\">\n<p data-start=\"1157\" data-end=\"1185\">a functional suburban rail<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1186\" data-end=\"1227\">\n<p data-start=\"1188\" data-end=\"1227\">a stadium that meets modern standards<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1228\" data-end=\"1261\">\n<p data-start=\"1230\" data-end=\"1261\">reliable urban infrastructure<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1262\" data-end=\"1303\">\n<p data-start=\"1264\" data-end=\"1303\">roads that don\u2019t impersonate the moon<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-start=\"1305\" data-end=\"1478\">Until then, claiming the Olympics for Thiruvananthapuram is like saying \u201cI\u2019ll host the Oscars in my living room\u201d \u2014 funny, harmless, and completely disconnected from reality.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1480\" data-end=\"1557\">2036 Olympics in Trivandrum?<br data-start=\"1508\" data-end=\"1511\" \/><strong data-start=\"1511\" data-end=\"1557\">Not even Google Maps can find that future.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5815\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5815\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5815\" src=\"https:\/\/www.keralaclick.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/thiruvananthapuram-olympics-1936-700x875.jpg\" alt=\"2036 Olympics in Thiruvananthapuram i\" width=\"640\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.keralaclick.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/thiruvananthapuram-olympics-1936-700x875.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.keralaclick.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/thiruvananthapuram-olympics-1936-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.keralaclick.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/thiruvananthapuram-olympics-1936-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.keralaclick.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/thiruvananthapuram-olympics-1936-300x375.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.keralaclick.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/thiruvananthapuram-olympics-1936-850x1063.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.keralaclick.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/thiruvananthapuram-olympics-1936.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5815\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2036 Olympics in Thiruvananthapuram i<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every election season needs its own blockbuster. This year, Kerala got a fresh one:\u201cWe will bring the 2036 Olympics to Thiruvananthapuram.\u201d Some promises come with logic. Some with ambition.This one comes with pure fantasy and a free side of popcorn. Let\u2019s face it. Hosting the Olympics is not like hosting a school youth festival. It &#8230; <a title=\"2036 Olympics in Thiruvananthapuram: When Political Daydreams Go Full HD\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.keralaclick.com\/blog\/2036-olympics-in-trivandrum-ticket-booked-reality-cancelled\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 2036 Olympics in Thiruvananthapuram: When Political Daydreams Go Full HD\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4981,4978,2507,4976,4982,4973,4974,4975,4979,4980,4983,4977,810],"class_list":["post-5814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-civic-sense","tag-election-season","tag-infrastructure","tag-kerala-bjp","tag-kerala-development","tag-kerala-politics","tag-olympics-2036","tag-political-promises","tag-public-policy","tag-rational-politics","tag-reality-check","tag-sarcasm","tag-thiruvananthapuram"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keralaclick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keralaclick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keralaclick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keralaclick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keralaclick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.keralaclick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5816,"href":"https:\/\/www.keralaclick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5814\/revisions\/5816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keralaclick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keralaclick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keralaclick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keralaclick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}