tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17929252.post6767133101394220973..comments2024-03-25T20:45:09.957+05:30Comments on On The Ganga Mail: Deflowering CricketBishwanath Ghoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09499834715638337891noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17929252.post-86869761126091406372010-04-01T14:05:12.925+05:302010-04-01T14:05:12.925+05:30Also how can you forget Humlog, Yeh Jo Hai Zindagh...Also how can you forget Humlog, Yeh Jo Hai Zindaghi, Chitrahar and the Sunday morning Hindi songs on TV. I love lucy, Beverley Hills,Barbabappa cartoon, spiderman. Prannoy Roys election shows, regional language feature films. The excitement of watching 2tamil movies on DD when a regional language film happens to be a tamil movie ( similarly for all langauges). Hearing news about Mrs. Gandhi's assassination on BBC radio, VOA etc<br /><br />The Rs.2.90 ticket in a good theatre in Chennai will have class audience. Now it all about money in every field. No class or nothings classy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17929252.post-76170961949184134202010-03-30T18:56:41.126+05:302010-03-30T18:56:41.126+05:30I don't follow Cricket, but I rejoiced that I ...I don't follow Cricket, but I rejoiced that I was in Sharjah during the '83 World Cup. I had the poster of the cricket team then because I liked Ravi Shastri, Keerthi Azaad and Vengsarkar and not because of their prowess in the game.Ardrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10005169454353807178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17929252.post-15325714762509685632010-03-30T18:55:45.877+05:302010-03-30T18:55:45.877+05:30This comment has been removed by the author.Ardrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10005169454353807178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17929252.post-71222434758218192552010-03-30T16:51:22.643+05:302010-03-30T16:51:22.643+05:30Agree with you. I also remember commentator Henry ...Agree with you. I also remember commentator Henry Blofeld and his obsession with ear-rings! During those days, my uncle would crib that the TV commentary lacked the enthusiasm generated by the AIR commentry - to each generation, it's own, I guess!Soumyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15822477338657651508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17929252.post-42661474972860157242010-03-30T14:18:16.756+05:302010-03-30T14:18:16.756+05:30Very well narrated.Ya the passion and patriotic fe...Very well narrated.Ya the passion and patriotic fervour the common man(who would have never held a bat/ball in hand in his lifetime)was able to generate and attach with cricket may be diminishing over the time.It is being replaced by a sort of lazy but tiring entertainment over a period of 7 weeks or so.Most of the Indians identified with the post 1983 and pre-IPL cricketers as one amongst them,as one amongst their house,as one amongst their neighbourhood though they would have never seen them beyond their TV screens.The ladies of their time where concerned about when Kapil Dev will get to become a father and when Ravi Shastri will marry Amrita and so on.Most of the men saw a part-flesh of them in a Kapil Dev or a Srikanth or Ravi Shastri or even a Madan Lal.They never envied the rising bank balances and riches of a Gavaskar.A beaming Kapil Dev with then PM Indira Gandhi with the 1983 Prudential Cup and all other proud blazing team members in line with their dark blue blazers will be ever etched in their memories inviting a pleasant smile and goose bump brimming with the Indian pride even today over a fleeting minute on the TV screen.They felt a sort of 'Me Jo Banna Chaththa Tha Yeh Log Bana and Kar Dikaya Pura Duniya Ke Liye Khel Me,Zindagi Me,Yeh Log Hamara Saathi He,Mera He'When Shastri and his team drove the 1985 Audi most of the Indian youth then could have felt they themselves being on the wheel of that gold colored Audi.The connect was their.That connect was alive and kicking for long time.But,today post-IPL Im afraid that connect is slowly withering away.The IPL money,money and more money is everywhere.The rich flash their riches and the Aaam Adhmi is pushed back in his own neighbourhood.I dont think even a down-town Tamil will identify with a CSK team and why worry about a gujarati for a Parthiv.Hope this dis-connect is not long/permanent and does not sheen away the value added to cricket,society and nation over the years...But they say Globalization is there to stay....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17929252.post-88074479101340987602010-03-30T13:17:00.706+05:302010-03-30T13:17:00.706+05:30Great write-up!
And true, we are having a little ...Great write-up!<br /><br />And true, we are having a little too much of cricket these days! I'm a cricket fan but never follow IPL. It all just seems like a race for more money and no true cricket in there! Moreover, I cannot get myself to support any one team for the sheer reason that I do not see any loyalty geerated for either of them within me!<br /><br />I wish they gave some more importance to other sports now. It's hightime!Nehahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09356457383586939084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17929252.post-24910963152886163902010-03-30T04:41:09.989+05:302010-03-30T04:41:09.989+05:30when Lalit Modi sensed that cricket is much more t...when Lalit Modi sensed that cricket is much more than just a sport in India he floated the idea of IPL and it has become a huge hit..<br /><br />I agree with ur views on actor and entrepreneurs owning IPL teams, but the concept of IPL is very similar to football leagues...<br /><br />and the fact that it is running in the third season speaks of its success...<br /><br />But, I don't really know if switching loyalties is bad after all.. because it is only during IPL will I cheer when Tendulkar gets out for duck...<br /><br />very very well written post...janani sampathhttp://unrelentingdreamer.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17929252.post-14018464059995174712010-03-30T04:39:57.294+05:302010-03-30T04:39:57.294+05:30I am not a cricket person but I loved this one ......I am not a cricket person but I loved this one ... ah and just when I was beginning to give up on you :)Kaavyahttp://kaavyakrishna.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17929252.post-15349629094752098562010-03-30T04:39:01.916+05:302010-03-30T04:39:01.916+05:30bg, you have summarised the cricket scene worldwid...bg, you have summarised the cricket scene worldwide really well - something that has been on our minds all along, but you put them down in words. great!<br /><br />to me cricket is no longer a sport. like journalism (which was my first love when it came to choosing a profession), cricket too has been reduced to entertainment.PAULA RAYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09523827069549092352noreply@blogger.com