DEar Amitabhji, I completely agree, during 1997-1999 I also used to love watching cricket, now I hate it and the reason, the same what you have
for my shocking, When ICL started, BCCI became restless and immediately they started IPL and ICL lost somewhere. I never saw media giving importance to ICL but for IPL, they put all efforts If sehwag, Sachin or Dhoni plays well in a match they are superstar but where they are rest of the time? Shahrukh Khan- a poor struggling fellow, nationally we give him respect, money and fame everything but he is so hungry for money, he do tax evasion and it is world known fact that he is rich enough to buy many things still the greedy fellow invest in IPL On 27 April 2010 19:54, Amitabh Thakur <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Friends, > > When I was a young boy, I used to listen to cricket matches and generally > loved it. Also used to read magazines like Sportstar etc. for additional > information. The same must be the case for the youngsters today. With time, > my interest in the game waned down and a time came when I completely stopped > watching it. > So far, it was all right. But now the problem with me is that I have > started hating the game and many of its players. I get extremely irritated > when I see many a young players on the TV screens or on the cover page of > the newspapers. > I have very solid reasons for this. I know, as all of u, that a games and > sports are necessary ingredients of a socio-cultural milieu. One can't take > it away. For variety of reasons cricket has taken an advantageous position > vis-à-vis other games in this country. Hence, it is now part of our national > psyche. > So far so good. But the Question is- "Is cricket the most important issue > of our life? Can we eat, drink and sleep cricket? Are cricketing players so > big entities that their personal affairs and escapades become the defining > moments of our life? Are these cricketers God? What exactly is this game > giving to the Nation? And finally isn't it coming in a big way in pushing > back all kinds of important issues concerning our nation?" > I think it was a player called Yuvraj Singh who had a brief get-together > with daughter of Prakash Padukone, possibly in Australia. To make it the > prime-time news article is not only unethical and unjustified, it is also > criminal and malicious. Similarly, there is a cricketer who often has brief > skirmishes of all kinds. Whether he is slapped a fine by BCCI or CCCI or ICC > shall not be a matter of national concern. These and many such issues make > me think that we are living in Fool's paradise where the real facts of life > are being overtaken and overpowered by escapist and hypnotic illusions. > This could be allowed in developed countries of the West where they can > afford it. But in a country like India with so many pressing problems, when > we immerse ourselves in these pleasures, it seems no different from the way > we behaved during the early 18th century paving way for foreign rule. > I really feel pained when even senior ministers and bureaucrats are found > immersing themselves in such nonsensical talks as Dhoni's strategy and its > implications. Let Dhoni take it. He is being paid exactly for that and is > being paid hugely, much-much more than he or any of these cricketers > deserve. A worker struggling all through the day gets 100 rupees in our > country. And these people get millions for fooling u and me. > If one adds things like BCCI and IPL to this, the story turns much more > darker and murkier. I strongly believe that this is nothing but a huge > conspiracy- to sway the public thought from all the Dantewadas, Kashmir, > simmering North-easts, poverty, flood, draught, illiteracy and so on. > A nation that can not distinguish between its true greats and the false > ones is bound to pay thru its nose. We do not have dearth of people like > Nanaji Deshmukh, Anna Hazare, Baba Amte and thousands more who are doing > much-much important service to the Nation. Let us give them their due and > let us stop treating these fake ones like Demi-gods. For all that they are, > they are cricketers and entertainers and no more. > The day this sense of proportion dawns on us, things will certainly start > turning for the best. Otherwise, this narcotic substance will sink the > entire country. I think we need to come in a big way to spread this message > around. > > Amitabh Thakur, > An IPS officer presently on study leave at IIM Lucknow > # 94155-34526 > [email protected] <amitabhthakurlko%40gmail.com> > > > -- ______________________________ "Life's most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others?" --Martin Luther King, Jr. Govind- 9960704146 URL: http://www.wix.com/hopegovind/homepage
