India’s LBW
The Indian public has been outraged by lurid accusations concerning their professional cricketers – bribes for bad play, owners betting on games, and players seduced by starlets and call girls. But is the Indian Premier League’s tawdry underside really emblematic of post-liberalization India’s crony capitalism and business short-termism?
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NEW DELHI – A casual reader of India’s newspapers for the last several weeks would be forgiven for wondering whether the country was suddenly bereft of political controversy, sex scandals, or official corruption – normally the standard headline fare here. The newspapers’ front pages have had space – under massive banner headlines – only for a topic normally reserved for the sports pages: cricket.