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The 'New' Opium of the Masses

Wed, 2012-05-30 20:48 — subhanil
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Reflections on mass celebration in Kolkata at KKR's win in the IPL.

IPL: Some Reflections

Sun, 2010-04-25 12:59 | Nilotpal Basu
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The Government has a lot to answer for the IPL scam, writes Nilotpal Basu, Central Committee member of CPI(M).

Two poems on the Indian Premier League

Sat, 2010-04-24 22:48 | Badri Raina
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ZNet columnist and professor of English at Delhi University, Badri Raina lends a poetic touch to the IPL related vicissitudes of former minister Shashi Tharoor and IPL commissioner Lalit Modi. 

IPL Muddle: Sack Shashi and Shake-up the System

Sat, 2010-04-17 10:13 | Prasenjit Bose
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 Would the skeletons tumbling out of the Indian Premium League (IPL) cupboard over the past few days, shaking the conscience of the cricket loving public, lead to a clean up of the cricket establishment which is reeking of malfeasance and licentiousness? Or is it going to be a flash in the pan – merely another chapter in India’s voluminous record book of sleaze and graft involving the rich, powerful and famous? It depends. Cover-up after cover-up has forced many to cynically accept such sordid affairs as our way of life. Will it be any different this time?

Remove Cheerleaders from the IPL Cricket Matches : SFI

Fri, 2008-04-25 20:01 | SFI(Student Federation of India)

The Students' Federation of India strongly condemns the practice of using women cheerleaders during the cricket matches of the IPL league. The spectacle of the dancing cheerleaders is nothing but a projection of women's body for male consumption and titillation. This is the height of commodification of women, which has become rampant in cinema and other forms of media in recent times. Such projection of women grossly violates the right to dignity and equality for women. That this is happening in the most commercialized form of cricket is no surprise because commercialization seeks to reduce human beings as mere commodities that can be sold or auctioned in the market.