Thursday, April 17, 2008

Boycott Indian Partition League (IPL)

When you see a senior citizen in a bus, if you have etiquettes, you will get up and offer him a seat. This is what every good family in India had been teaching to its progeny. These etiquettes are inculcated within an individual during his school days too. We are taught to spread message of love in the world. Same has been mentioned in each and every religion of the world.

I was watching movie JODHA AKBAR recently. In the film there was a dialogue:

Akbar: Jannat Kya Hai?
One Cleric: Jis jagah mohabbat hoti hai us jagah ko Jannat kehte hain.

But there is one new sect coming up that is bombarding us with message that we should hate people of our country. Hate people of the nation where we have learned to spread love , nation which is home for us and to which we try make heaven by vrtue of love.

The idea has come up from Board of Cricket Control in India (BBCI) in the form of Indian Premiere League to which I have termed as India Partition League(IPL).

This I am saying on the basis of advertisement they have been showing on the television.

It hurts to see when a sikh guy , who is shown as fan of a team from Punjab, first offers seat to an elderly person but refuses later on. This just because that elderly person is carrying a box which has logo of a team from Rajasthan. If I take this advertisement right , I get the message that Sikh guys are rude. Is it so ?

I know its not true but when anyone from abroad will see this , he will surely perceive Sikh Guys as rude.

This advertisement show message that clearly aims to divide our nation. Every advertsiement is made to convey the message of advertisers.

IPL lobby is showing messages to impress viewers by giving them wrong reasons. So mean. They are dividing country just for the sake of money.

There could have been ample reason to watch these matches. IPL lobby could have come with a good cause. It could have been cause of development of poor from state which loses match.

The message could have well been that NO ONE WILL LOSE. The one who wins match will win trophy but the team that loses will win some fraction of the profit generated by showing match for development of poor in its state.

But no, the IPL lobby chose to spread message of hatred and in some way support those who want to divide our nation like Raj Thackeray.

I appeal to all those who love India should understand this grave problem and boycott IPL. Let them understand that selfish billionare club of the country can never be successful on the basis of hatred.

JAI HIND JAI BHARAT.