Re: Mysteries of cricket

[ravi <gadfly@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Burford wrote:
>
> Now today behind this important ritualised  trial lies the context
> that the national bourgeoisies of India and Pakistan have decided it
> is in their economic interests to promote a free trade area and some
> sublimation of the extraordinarily dangerous potential for war.
>
> Other sections of national capital have won out over the sections
> associated with the arms economy.
>

you may be right, but having lived through 20 years of this political
posturing in india, and given what i perceive as the alarming rise in
anti-muslim feelings among the middle-class in now fundamentalist-ruled
india, i cannot be sure about your conclusion. i do think that the
emerging entrepreneural class, the nouveau riche, will aggressively
pursue their agenda and shape the government to reach their ends. to
some level, that is no different from the patronage of mahatma gandhi by
the birlas and other moneybags. what i find disheartening is that the
hate can quite easily co-exist with economic development (unless you are
telling me that india stands to gain enormously from trade with
pakistan; to a larger extent than the current boom caused by IT, in
paricular IT outsourcing).


> But don't ask me actually how to play the game. I always went
> paralytic.

i have always assumed that a paralytic condition is a pre-requisite for
the lethargic sport ;-). don't tell my cricketing family, but
personally, i prefer basketball!

        --ravi


p.s: no offense intended to those who are physically paralyzed.