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IPL Yes Me Too

This is a considerably short ;) comment on Saurabh's blog . I did not want to pollute his comments section by writing a comment as long as an article. Let me for the sake of fun and argument take the other side. Why does an artist have to be a ‘wonderful enough entertainer’? We don’t go to our offices to entertain people. We sometimes work out of necessity, sometimes for satisfaction and pleasure. Why can’t an artist do something which he or she likes? Does he wish that everyone in the world would understand and appreciate his contributions? Did Einstein think that his theory should be appreciated by Taliban? And why do we, as consumers, have to be able to pick the best? Are we rational? If we were, rather than talking about IPL, we would perhaps be talking about much more pertinent issues, or masses’ issues. Issues of a billion people, rather than a few million. Coming specifically to IPL: Why is cricket not included in Olympics? What has IPL really done? Why is as popular as