IPL or East India Company

We all are honorable men who love their cricket. IPL has provided us with a reason to carry forward this honor and love for the region ,that we live in. While Delhi rejoices an injury of Sachin Tendulkar , People are ecstatic when Saurav Ganguly looses a match. IPL has brought us in to a new kind of era, that our fore fathers fought for two hundred years. We are again being divided on the lines of Race, Region and Community and the biggest of evils “Money”. While every day a new controversy engulfs the league and I enjoy taking a dig on those , IPL has brought forward serious issues . Issues that can not be taken up lightly.
On 19 th May ,two of the Mohali team cheerleaders were told to get out of the stadium by the management agency , that had hired them. No reasons were given but it was understood that it was on the behest of their skin color. Both of them being black. Its ironic that the man whom we all know as the father of the nation and still better from the Munna bhai Series started the freedom struggle by fighting against , oppression of the black community on basis of their color. Not very long ago the whole nation had stood against a nobody called Jake Goody and the indian government had even extended an invitation to her to visit the country. We are such a nation.

What happened at IPL is disgusting. It shows the double standards , we as Indians have. Now I don't say that everybody is bad ,but then ,why nobody is coming forward now, to punish or even investigate the whole issue. People turn a blind eye towards ugliness , we Indians are no different. When traveling in a bus , we prefer to travel, standing rather then sit next to a handicap or a beggar. Are they not fellow human beings. No they are not contagious , we won't become handicap or loose all our money by sitting next to them.

In !857 after the Sepoy mutiny East India Company left India. In 2008 exactly 150 years , they have returned in the garb of IPL. The social evils that we had long forgotten, are being recycled in the name of entertainment, and while the ordinary people lap it it up, Franchisees and IPL organizers laugh their way to the bank. In the name of team promotions millions are being spent ,when the same money, could have been used to improve stadium facilities. Provide training facilities to the local players. Provide at least drinking water in the stands.
The promises made at the beginning were large , just like the promises of our leaders before the election, How many have been fulfilled is yet to be seen. It was said that IPL is going to promote local cricket. All the local players have done is to carry water, sit on benches and when not required shipped out of the hotel to accommodate franchisee owner's friends. What humiliation. A racism of a different kind , a cost paid for never being a key player in India “A” squad.

Long ago the British decided on the policy of divide and rule. Let everybody fight for their own petty issues . IPL in some sense has followed the same. Divide and loot. While people are being divided by the teams they support , forgetting all the discomfort in the win , they are also being divided by the kind of ticket they hold. While SRK ,owner of the KKR smokes freely in the stadium, a common fan is not even allowed to carry a bottle of drinking water, and yet, he is drawn to the stadium for entertainment being provided in the form of Slapping and scantily clad women gyrating seductively to music they don't understand. When somebody raises the issue he is shunned as a hypocrite and a specimen from the eighteenth century. The government just like the rulers in the past have turned a blind eye to this invasion. By the time anybody realizes the damage done to the psyche of the nation, it will be too late. Fights in the west have cost lives of thousands of supporters , who fought battles in the stands ,when their favorite club looses .They all belong to the same nation. Is it right to divide the nation once again while with great difficulty people have lately understood, how irrelevant it is to fight in name of religion and yet sparse incidents of communal violence are seen every now and then. It will be most unfortunate to see supporters of one team fighting those of the other teams in the stands when this hypnotism will complete.

Almost 5000 crores have exchanged hands since the event began, and Income Tax department wants an explanation. It is just an rough estimate. How much of this money has actually been spent on developing infrastructure for the game ,with no price caps on players from next year onwards, Dhoni might just become the richest player in the world , but where do the franchisee get this money back from. We will pay them. After all they are spending so much money to keep us divided as a nation. Its there right to treat us as slaves ,because us Indians can not sit next to a beggar or handicap but can stand next to them outside a window shop and cheer for the team, we support.