Thank God IPL is over! Oh yea, finally our electronic and newsprint media will focus on more pertinent news that will matter to the common man rather than wasting its time by reporting on matches that are probably fixed with money that is probably unaccounted for.
While the World witnessed bigger events of global importance, our media was busy focusing on matches that provided more of entertainment than any real-value sport.
Even as our CRPF jawans continue to suffer in the interior jungles of Chhattisgarh, fighting the heat, mosquitoes and the Red menace (People's War), our Fourth Estate was busy reporting the misgivings among the thieves (read BCCI - Modi).
A popular news channel reported yesterday that the viewership rating dropped dramatically by a few millions after Sachin Tendulkar lost his wicket in the so-called crucial IPL-3 final.
It makes one wonder how our people continued to watch this match despite mounting evidence of match-fixing and black money filtering into this "sport". Have we totally lost our senses? Or is it that we just don't want to acknowledge the reality staring at us?
It's difficult to comprehend the mindset of average Indians who were willing to pay Rs 500 to Rs 1,000 to watch a league matches in IPL-3 at Chidambaram stadium in Chennai, last week.
If one were to draw a parallel with IPL then we have our own "swamis" in plenty, who have later turned out to be sexual perverts or predators in disguise. If one were to asked to cite just one reason for the thriving number of swamis of such stature, the blame squarely lies on ourselves.
A mixture of ignorance and blind faith has led to the rise of several "sex" swamis, be it Premananda, Bhimanada, or Nithyananda. Common sense tells us that there will be no dearth in such swamis. And as long as there are people willing to be fooled by a saffron-wearing criminal, there will be people who will continue to take people for a ride.
The same goes with IPL. As long as the average Indian fan worships the players more than the sport itself, there will be no dearth of black-money, betting scandal, or fixed matches. What say Modi?
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