IPL Spot Fixing Scandal: HE Is India!

His company, His son-in-law, His franchise, His IPL, His BCCI, His Indian cricket, His India cricket captain, His millions, and HIS India! He is the accused, He is the judge. He appoints his old loyally royally gagged warhorses to probe Himself. His Board includes ministers of the Government of India, His Board includes top politicians of various political parties some of whom are prospective Prime Ministerial candidates and His Board includes more equally moneyed honchos, but they say nothing, comment nothing and do nothing—blissful silence being their golden rule set by Him. He decided to present the IPL-6 Trophy to the winner and He did just that. That He could not give it to Himself or His franchise was a matter only He might have had an answer to. In totality, He is the perfect dictatorial candidate for the all-powerful President to rescue India from the clutch of a miserably spineless democracy.

His officials work as the perfect sycophants to censor the media as we have today helplessly witnessed those brushing aside media questions about the IPL Spot Fixing Scandal that overshadows Indian cricket at the moment with a confident ‘next question please’. And, the arguably the most aggressive Indian captain MS Dhoni—the hero of millions of Indians—did nothing remotely near to ‘heroic’. With a benign expression very close to being a smile Dhoni ignored his millions of fans and allowed those sycophants gag him totally and decisively. Like so many of his cricket colleagues—present, former and even legends. His control is definitive and final.

He has bought the whole of India with His billions gagging, muting and deafening all individual voices. He allows nobody to rise above His money doled out to them abundantly. He has India at His mercy. Because HE is India. You can give Him any name, any form and any shape, because essentially He is the same. He has only one true companion always coming up to help Him, never leaving Him in times of distress. Corruption! Yes Corruption, thy name is India too!

Banter apart, the police custody of Vindoo Dara Singh along with three more bookies was extended by three more days by a Mumbai court today. Mumbai Police is now examining a new exciting triangle— Vindoo, Gurunath and Vikram Aggarwal, a third connectionof a hotelier pulled up in Chennai. A Delhi court today rejected the bail plea of Sreesanth, but gave him judicial custody till 4^th of June along with Chandila. Ankeet Chavan’s bail plea on the basis of his marriage was also rejected and he too was put in judicial custody till 4^th June. Gurunath Meiyappan custody will come up again tomorrow in a Mumbai court.

Now the all important question is when the Police would find enough evidence to file the charge sheets. Although there is no law at the moment recognizing match fixing or betting as an offense, several sections of the Indian Penal Code dealing with cheating and fraud could be applied.

The VIP Brat: A Study in Contrast!

Here we’re talking about only two compartments inside a particular AC 2-Tier coach in a particular daily train under the Indian Railways that departs a particular originating station at around noontime and reaches the destination city early morning the next day. The train is popular because it is superfast and always on time. That fateful noon too, the train was ready for boarding about one hour before departure. We cut to the inside of that particular coach having those two compartments for our contrasting study. Two elderly couples were in a state of considerable distress. One of them, both technically senior citizens, had been allotted two upper berths and the husband was at his wits end how to proceed, because his wife was being taken for check-up after surgeries in both of her knees—she could hardly walk and her climbing up the berth was a sheer impossibility. The husband was also on the wrong side of the sixties, but he thought he could manage the climbing once he managed a ...

Mitali: The Trauma of Losing a Sibling

Maybe I lied to her when I used to reassure her that she was going to be alright and was going to resume her life in some measure of normalcy in the future years; maybe all my gestures/expressions were false when I used to run my fingers across her forehead or embrace her on occasions when she was able to move around a bit; and maybe all my exhibitions of love care and responsibility were exposed as superficial when I failed to turn up in Delhi where she along with my mother were treated during September-October, 2022 (my mother Urmila Chakravarty was also diagnosed with dental cancer the same month the same year as she was) and when all the members of my parental family and the in-laws converged. Since that fateful day in August, 2022 when she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer to that disastrous day of March 6, 2025—the day my younger blood sister Mitali (Mainu) Chakravarty Sarma (November 2, 1963—March 6, 2025) passed away in the wee hours in a hospital in Guwahati after giving a bra...

Release of Book 'Randomized: A Dozen Short Stories'!

The fourth collection of stories titled 'Randomized: A Dozen Short Stories' by Chinmay Chakravarty has been released on Amazon KDP just now! This collection, short stories in a lighter vein plus with mild satire like the previous collections, has been published in both the E-book and Paperback formats. The links are given below: International: Click Here ! India: Click Here ! Other collections of short stories by the same author: The Cheerless Chauffeur and Other Tales(2021)--Notion Press. Funny and Fishy Tales(2022)--KDP. The Weirdos(2022)--Ukiyoto Publishing. All books of the author are available on Goodreads, apart from Amazon and other outlets! Have a look!