In a country where more than half the population lives below the poverty line, it is amazing that there are people who are willing to spend crores to buy cricket players (Jan. 9, 10). If the same rich and the famous team owners also adopt poor communities, educate children and provide a living to several poor families, India would be a much more comfortable place to live in. Finally, it is sad to see a cricket player being reduced to a commodity and allowing himself to be auctioned.
M.V. Nahusharaj,
Bangalore
While Abraham Lincoln liberated human society from slavery, modern man has succumbed to economic slavery — this is what we see in the auctioning of cricket players. The only difference is that it is wilful slavery. We may have a situation where eminent talent from different walks of life may be auctioned in the same manner.
J.J. Vellara,
Kozhikode
If anyone switched on a television set these past two days, he would be led to believe that was just one burning issue in India, i.e. the importance of a group of rich business people trying to buy cricketers in an auction. Once that was done, India's poor would experience inclusive growth and all its infrastructure issues would be resolved. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the whole exercise bordered on lunacy with almost the entire media going overboard in covering the private auctions round the clock. The only other round-the-clock coverage of an event that comes to mind are the general elections. We need to introspect.
N.K. Raveendran,
Bangalore