Indian premier bedfellows
Cricket in India was always run by politicians.
And politicians always had a nexus with the business world.
And the movie industry always had underworld connections.
But now cricket has also become a business.
And businessmen and movie stars own cricket teams.
Four pillars of Indian society have come together.
All that's left is for organized religion to rear its ugly head.
And politicians always had a nexus with the business world.
And the movie industry always had underworld connections.
But now cricket has also become a business.
And businessmen and movie stars own cricket teams.
Four pillars of Indian society have come together.
All that's left is for organized religion to rear its ugly head.
posted by Tabula Rasa | 4/21/2008 08:39:00 AM
8 Comments:
not exactly pillars but termites eating the foundation of our nation!!!
All that's left is for organized religion to rear its ugly head.
You say like it'd be a bad thing.
I'd pay top dollars to watch the Amritsar Nanaks play the Bangalore Brahmins or the Muzaffarnagar Mullahs take on the Cochin Jews.
//And Parsi cheerleaders, of course.
I see a few ugly heads.
Actually, wouldn't that just be going full circle, given that grassroots cricket in Bombay at least developed from the Pentangular - for the most part a tournament organized by religion? (Sorry prof, but someone had to say it.)
There's an antidote.
rahul:
ah, it's just a matter of perspective.
km:
all that for the cheerleaders?
mt:
there you go. thanks.
salil:
i know - i realized it after i posted :-)
sb:
heck yeah -- i hadn't mentioned how utterly *stupid* the team names are.
And, it's pretty tough to tell one pillar from the other, eh? ;-)
ghost:
ya, well, when they're all made of sand :-)
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