IPL: Flip side of the coin

Third secession of IPL is on and people are enthusiastically discussing each and every ball with excitement. We are waiting for Dhoni to recover from his injury more eagerly than we had ever waited for our exam results. Everybody is in very delighted mood to get this free of cost mega entertainment. After all we are saving our movie tickets cost and enjoying the evening in some pub with friends and free pitcher at every alternate six. IPL is being discussed in every cup of tea, each puff of cigarette, every home, office, bus stop, local train and may be sometimes bedroom also. The mega event will soon turn into a giga one as more teams are being added. And the price at which the franchise of the new two teams, Pune and Kochi has been bought is indicating towards the more free fun. We are so deeply enjoying these moments that we forget to or may be choose not to think about where from this money is coming? The huge franchise cost , the huge sum at which players are being contracted and the money involved in sponsoring the fours, Sixes , catches and may be no and wide bolls also in coming years. All big guns are running to buy a team as it is turning into a big business for them. But is this entertainment worth this money, is the business of IPL generating some productive output other than making money for the owners. All the money which is involved in IPL is coming from sponsors and the advertisements and these sponsors are not donating it for the cause of cricket. The money they are spending, they are/will be recovering from us, the consumer. The more they will sponsor or advertise the more the cost of their product will go up and ultimately the more we will pay for it. So the funda of free entertainment is actually costing us way more than we realize. I may be blamed for seeing negativity behind a good cause of developing cricket in India but I strongly oppose this waste of money and time for the poor nation like us. We are paying a huge sum to the foreign players when half of our population is living below poverty line. Ohhh I am not going to buy the shit that IPL will make India a super power in cricket, even if it does then also at the cost of spoiling other sports and many more things. I don’t have sympathy for other sports but yes I am concerned about wastage of huge money for it as I believe in very simple concept of अति सर्वत्र वर्जयेत... The payment and attention cricket is getting will cost us in other areas and the disparity of society will continue to rise with such extravaganza.