Why the brouhaha over IPL threat?
IPL is the talking point in the blogosphere, especially in the context of the recent attack on Sri Lankan team in Pakistan and potential threats to players in India.
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This blogger, Filter Coffeeu00a0is angry with Home Minister P Chidambaram for urging to postpone the IPL.
"So go ahead, Mr. Home Minister, do your security assessment.u00a0 Keep in mind, however, that your inability to provide security cover will be a condemnation of the security apparatus that you and your predecessor oversaw for five long years.u00a0 B. Raman believes that only a pragmatic security assessment should dictate whether the IPL should be allowed to go ahead as planned," he says.
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"If the Home Minister is telling me that he can't protect private enterprise in the country, our law enforcement agencies, along with the Home Minister can just pack up and move along because they are of no use whatsoever. Our law enforcement agencies have done little else in recent memory than raid rave parties in Mumbai and Bangalore. What message is Chidambaram trying to convey to India and to the rest of the world?u00a0 That we are incapable of holding a sports tournament and national elections at the same time in India?," asks the blogger.u00a0u00a0
The blogger ends the post by saying that the "show must go on".u00a0 "Not for "national pride", or for corporations' "money-making urge", but for the Indian government to show its people and countries outside that the fallacious hyphenation of India and Pakistan is absurd, and that it is capable of maintaining law and order it the country after the aberrations of the recent past."
"Now, I'm sure that the tournament will be fine u2014 cross your fingers u2014 but it's worth noting that last year's IPL season did not go by without a terror attack (Jaipur, among other cities, suffered a series of devastating bombs). Whereas last year, most athletes brushed it off as irrelevant, this year, they most likely won't (as Kevin Pietersen has suggested). That's what happens when you raise the stakes on the IPL, as Homer has done, when he says that this will prove India's safety," says this blogger.
This blogger feels that a better way to handle this would be to argue that terrorism exists as a fact of life, and that we need a better way of assessing how to react to its threat.
"I'd rather not elevate the impact of terrorism, which precisely serves its purpose of hogging the spotlight and creating more fear than it rationally should."
'Enjoy the booty with mouth shut'
This bloggeru00a0is angry over the latest brouhaha over the seucirty covcer for cricket in India.
"No Indian cricketer has ever said about the mugging events that happen in South Africa. Johannesburg and CapeTown are murder capitals of the world, yet Indians mingle with the migrant population whenever they tour the country. No Indian cricketer complained about the ethnic violence that happens in Sri Lanka. Their job is to go and play the cricket," says the blogger.u00a0
"IPL doesn't need foreign cricketers. It's the foreign cricketers who need IPL. So when they want to enjoy the booty, they should do it with their mouth shut. Else we will be forced to ask Ijaj Butt and Javed Miandad to go and file complaints against them in ICC and BCC!."
This bloggeru00a0is angry at the bidding for cricketers by the corporates in India.
"How is it that the people who are involved in bidding and buying players have the heart to dish out crores of money to buy players when common people across the countryu2026nay world ( because even foreign players are involved) are loosing jobs or tightening their wallet due to economic slow down," asks the blogger.
"What I don't understand is how can Vijay Mallya pay Rs. 7cr on one side for just one English player whenu00a0 his KingFisher airline is making huge losses and owe the government 100cr on airline fuel charges."
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