Sunday, 30 November 2014

Accidents and Cast(e)-aways

Earlier it was Raman Lamba, now it is Phillip Hughes. Two cricketers who died because of their fatal injuries incurred on the cricket field. May they attain eternal rest and peace. It is not just Formula One or sky-diving that have killed some sportspersons, cricket too. Unimaginable. Freaky accidents on the cricketing field. This can't be controlled. But what can be regulated is politics in sports: cricket and hockey seem to be the most corrupted sports in India. Recently I watched a Tamil movie "Jeeva" that talks about cricket. A simple but powerful movie how some succeed, and how some fail in this field. It shows how dirty politics not only ends the career of someone, but also leads to suicide. Concretely, the Tamil-nadu cricketers who have played for the Indian international side are all Brahmins (almost all - not sure of the West-Indian born Robin Singh). Even many other Indian cricketers are Brahmin. Is this to say that the others aren't as good as these? Shouldn't we openly talk of these dirty politics and casteist racism in Indian cricket?

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