archan wrote:
3) The private entity said we took the decisions solely based on business. They don't even claim to have any nationalistic/patriotic reasoning behind those decisions.
4) The govt. said they had nothing to do with it. They in fact, regret the decisions.
So why do we keep claiming "India did this, India did that"? can we please stop coloring everything with "strategic" colors? events have their own dynamics and no amount of jumping up and down on internet fora is going to affect it.
It is just a friggin' sport and it is being blown out of proportions.
Had Indian govt stuck to its original stand, someone, I believe it was Tiwari who said (I am paraphrasing) Indian govt had nothing to do with IPL, but at the same time, instead of mass hysteria, TSP must look at its own conduct to see why IPL franchises felt it was risky to pick TSPians. That was a dignified and mature position.
But then comes PC and blows cold about why its an outrage not picking TSPians, TSPians are the best in the world and they should have been picked bla bla, it took away the sheen from India's previous statement. He had no business saying that.
So much is in the public sphere. Now heaven knows how much pressure Lalit Modi & co are in provate to reverse the decision. Hence his latest comment.
Does all this not show that India cannot make a decision, even if it makes business sense, if it hurts TSP's H&D.