Yuvraj and Rahul got outsider feeling in Mumbai, thats IPL

I stick to my words ... BAN IPL

Below are some of the discussion that took place at EFYtimes.com in response to DLF IPL News.

MY Comments:See how the Indian audience within India were divided when Indian Premiere League aka Indian Partition League match started in Banaglore. On news channels those who were from West Bengal favoured Kolkata Knight Riders and those from Karnataka prayed for Royal Challenger.

This is just the beginning of 'DIVIDE AND RULE' game of greedy IPL lobby. There intention is to divide Indian and earn money by playing with their emotions.

IPL lobby is continulously bombarding audiences with messages 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.

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. Look how they have flaunted money that they are going to make from this ill will flavoured league.

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 in state which loses match.

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.

Mr Atanu Kumar Das' criticised my comments.

His Words: This is one of the worst comment and analysis I have read about any sport per se, be it IPL. Cricket, which is supposed to be fun game and a sport which has always brought friends together to watch a match together where people hardly get time to socialise, should always be seen as a uniting force.

As per the ads which Prasoon mentions where an elderly Rajasthani gentleman is not given a sit by a Punjabi guy in a bus, when ever I see this ad, I just laughed my heart out as I suppose it is meant to see the lighter side of it. Sports does not lead to divide anybody, it always is an apt tool to bring even your older foes together.

Let's here mention another ad, where a dentist who is Mumbai Indian supporter, tell his patient that he has to uproot 5 teeth of the patient because he is Delhi Daredevil supporter. The pun in the ad was on “daredevil,” and I suppose the ad is meant to be funny, not Prasoon's analysis of dividing India by region.

Sorry to see such a niave analysis of IPL made by Prasoon, which is meant to provide more entertainment to this Cricket loving nation where one can watch all the great cricketers play together.

All the best with your thoughts Prasoon, I certainly don't buy any of your logic.

Further a reader critically examined my comments: His words:
I love the comments actually, reason please read my reply beneath:


See how the Indian audience within India were divided when Indian Premiere League aka Indian Partition League match started in Banaglore. On news channels those who were from West Bengal favoured Kolkata Knight Riders and those from Karnataka prayed for Royal Challenger.

This is just the beginning of 'DIVIDE AND RULE' game of greedy IPL lobby. There intention is to divide Indian and earn money by playing with their emotions.

Oh so what do you want to say that there should be no compatitive spirit between the states of a nation. Rather if would be much better if owing to the ads, the states start competing and developing infrastruction so as to be better than the rest.

IPL lobby is continulously bombarding audiences with messages 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.

Learn to speard love? I mean you are referring to the love for Dalits by high-caste, or you mean by the love of windows who were thrown in fire as Satis? or efforts like Child Marriage so as to create love, Love of landlords for peasant by making them bondage labours? So, I fail to understand which love you are talking about. But if you are indicating towards our population as the outcome of love, then I agree. So, please make sure what love you are talking about?

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.

Errr...you seem to have fabulous sense of humor, its almost ZERO! Who in the right mind cant see its just an Ad! If you start looking at that aspect then you will have to pull down almost 100% of the ads on TVs these days

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

Already addressed above, it might create some competition among the state to do well.

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. Look how they have flaunted money that they are going to make from this ill will flavoured league.

Such a bogus statement. get some sense of humor and sport spirit dude

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 in state which loses match.

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.

They are not doing it for a social cause, they are doing business and you must be happy that BCCI is the world's richest sports organisation. At least you should praise them being so powerful. Don't you as an Indian feel proud on that. So, before you go small and think statewise, think nation wise and start showing sport spirit. By the way which state are you from?

Mr Jimmy Came in support of my critics. His comment

Now that's exactly I call argue for the sake of argue. There is no connection with the politics and the disasters you mentioned. If anyone is trying to give IPL any ploitical color, its only YOU. And I sincerly request you to stop doing this, people like you try to get politics envolved in verything you see around. Please stop this nonsense.

My Reply:

dear sir,
I agree that sports should not be mixed with politics but unfortunately it had been happening in corners of the world.
There had been many violent incidents over football matches.Last year in Italy a football match between two clubs resulted in a riot.
There has been several incidents of violence after sports event. The point here is that everybody does not takes it in lighter mood.
In Italy it was fight between supporter of two clubs but in IPL teams belong to different states.
There had been issue when shrewed politicians have played with sentiments of innocent Indians. Recently issue of education was mixed with politics which was followed by violence in Mumbai.
Who will gaurantee that such kind of incidents will not shape out from IPL? Indian are too emtional for cricket like many who are for Footbal i foreihn countries like Italy. You might have heard that there had been incidents of heart attack while watching cricket match.
There had been Ranji matches but people were never bomarded with messages that you should hate supporter of another team.
When you are talking about lighter side, i have one more incident to remind you. Hope you remember the cartoon row between dutch cartoonist and muslims. He may have made it for lighter side but it offended many.