Are you a sports fanatic? What do you want?

What do you get when you mix cricket with bollywood. Your answer might be IPL, but i beg to differ. It is the latest 'tamasha' in town. I love cricket and i love bollywood, i love T20's. I love the adrenaile rush... but a tamasha? The BCCI is probably, now, the richest organisation in India. It is a monopoly. And monopoly is a dangerous proposition.  

A free country is a place where free will and free competition exists. A while ago ICL was launched, which was not supported by the BCCI. They now are seen as the poorer cousins of the IPL. Necessarily so. BCCI has the muscle power to wring anyones arm that comes in the way. I am not against sportsmen making money. I think it is time that they get their due credit. But cant we tone it down a little bit? When do you think something is too much? Why should a Dhanraj Pillai not make a few crores than Ishant Sharma. Dhanraj has by far made Indian hockey proud for a long time.

If they say people are not interested in sports, other than cricket, i would differ. The media has the power that could make any game popular. The rise and fall of a star, be it cricket or bollywood is at the hands of the media. The media now controls the mindset of the people. We need to break free from these shackles that narrow our vision. We need to understand, media is not about getting news to the people... media is about selling news to the people. and for that they will sell... anything

I wish that the BCCI is taken under the arm of a superior authority which promotes sportsmen and sportswomen in the country as a whole and does not just restrict itself into cricket. A body that identifies young talent and nurtures them to become the best. A body that distributes wealth equally between different sports organisations to make ourselves a country that brings us beyond one bronze or one silver in the olympics. I would like to see my country there, high up in the charts on the olympics medal tally.


I am not a sports fanatic, but if someone is crazier than me about sports, i am sure, they too want the same thing i want. But the officials sitting in the BCCI and other sports organisations... What do they want?