Opinion Wheres the cricket?
Kudos to Shekhar Gupta for speaking out loudly about the problems of Indian cricket.
• Kudos to Shekhar Gupta for speaking out loudly about the problems of Indian cricket. Actually,the country should have seen the worm in the BCCI apple when it put spanners in Kapil Devs ICL by not permitting the latter to use stadia and blacklisting all players who participated in the league,going to the extent of ostracising one of the greatest heroes of Indian cricket. At that moment it should have been clear that the motivation for BCCI bosses was anything but cricket. The problem seems to be with the word Board in its name,as this normally signifies a statutory authority to most of us. But even the BCCI and its elected officials have managed to ascribe to themselves the status and power of a Board answerable to no one. To rid Indian cricket of all its worms its time to hand over its management to real players instead of persons with vested interests.
Satish Dayal
New Delhi
• In our socio-political system any and every achievement or position is attempted to be turned into some sort of financial or political empowerment. Everyone who makes a mark is invited to be a politician and most politicians aim at financial empowerment. Swami Ramdev is said to be nourishing political ambitions. Politicians like Sharad Pawar and Shashi Tharoor enjoy a typical empowerment through cricket. One really fails to understand why sports cant remain sports.
Ved Guliani
Hisar
Fluff & the abyss
• Saubhik Chakrabarti needs to be complimented on his incisive analysis and concomitant expose of how Indias broadcast media gravitates towards fluff and often misses the point,as NDTV did in its exclusive interview with Shashi Tharoor. A huge opportunity wasted. In a word,(95 per cent of) Indias broadcast journalism is unbearable. Having watched the late and brilliant Peter Jennings every evening for two decades of my life (it rarely gets better than him),together with the BBC,I am depressed by the abysmal quality of Indias broadcast journalism and the proliferation of floozies on television. I am pleased to be rescued by the print media.
Oopali Operajita
Pittsburgh,US
Seeking trouble
• Shashi Tharoor has been getting into some hullabaloo or the other ever since he became minister. His role in Kochi IPL bid does appear improper. It reveals how sports events are organised and managed. The entry of big money into the game has made the entire exercise a mockery. The profligacy called IPL is a big insult to the vast majority. Its nothing but a hyped tamasha,out to ruin the glorious game of cricket.
Vinod C. Dixit
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