High pitch drama is on…
IPL has been a high pitch drama both on field and off it.
I went to watch the match between PCB and Delhi Daredevils. Thanks to our office we got free tickets to corporate stands. With a group of friends I was at stadium in time for the team to start and late enough to make a colleague of mine wait for me and make many frentic calls to me to enquire how long would it take.
The place was abuzz with crowd and chaos. Peoploe waiting at entrance in a long queue. Thankfully our gate did not witness such a queue and we were in as soon as we reached there. Security was supposed to be really tight. But was it? One could opt to go through food stalls and thereby take another route to the seats, without even going through the metal detector gate.
Anyway, rubbing the concern aside, the environment inside the stadium was high Octane one. Loud speakers put at various spots and cheer leaders standing for the hits and misses to shake their legs. RCB was to chase and as soon as the team walked in led by the captain Jumbo. Second thrilling shout came in when Viru the destroyer walked in with willow in his hand.
For the whole three and half hour, the crowd was going high on the opium of fun. Though the local team had to face defeat, it did not take away the thrill of watching the match.
I am sure the same would be the saga at all the places/stadia that the matches would have been scheduled.
Oblivious of the spectator, another high level drama was going on far away from the stadium. Kochi and Pune teams were bought at unprecendeted prices. If that was not a big news enough, Lalit Modi, the chariman of IPL threw another verbal bomb in public space. Mr Tharoor was the target this time and media houses were the real gainer. They had sufficient material to run for next week or so. After all a central minister was involved with some juicy news from his personal life too.
But had Mr Modi imagined the backlash that it may call for or was he too sure of his own backings that he could not fathom the vengeance that the government would show, Moved by the sole motive of revenge, wrapped in sugar coating of clean governance of IPL council, the government moved with swiftness, hardly seen in case of terrorrist attacks and naxal attack. I just wish government would have been so active to counter attacks on common citizen too. But an alibi of good governance is more important than the facts of no governance and security. Dantewada is yet to be avenged and people would have appreciated if government would have come out with action plan instead of formation of a inquiry commission.
Anyway the drama is on and forget Naxals, forget terrorist attacks, forget law and order effecting lives of millions, let us sit down and enjoy the tussle between Mr Modi and the government. Good going Mr Chidambaram and Dr. Singh!
