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I’ve got the following text from an AI analysis on Google and I’m using it here as a quote, although I had no idea who’s written it or when—the analysis is not revealing its source, if any. Of course, it’s only a part of the analysis that impressed me most, and therefore I thought of putting it down here for all people of the same ilk. And yes, I’ve tweaked it bit to cover more of the categories of people obviously involved.   "Many emerging or existing artists/writers/discoverers feel ignored, with their work going unnoticed, which is often a burden of being in creative industries , rather than a reflection of talent."  Very right indeed! Creative people who have put out their work in the public domain would most naturally like to be noticed and be told if their work is poor or mediocre or even good. When nothing of that sort happens they most naturally get frustrated and even indignant that nobody is even aware of their work and the very few who have indeed gone throug...

India Vs Bangladesh: Mustafizur, the IPL and the T20 World Cup!

 


In the increasingly tense geopolitical situation in the Indian subcontinent, I think it’s time to take some bold Cricket decisions by the BCCI in active consultation with the ICC and the Government of India, and not dillydallying with the issues involved nor allowing the overwhelming commercial angle win every time which in turn leads to absurd hypocritical scenarios as we’d recently witnessed in the games between India and Pakistan in the Asia Cup-2025 the winner's Trophy of which is still eluding India. In the upcoming ICC Men’s T20 World Cup-2026 we’re set to behold more games in and off the field with Bangladesh being literally taken over by the radicals and the violent upheaval there leading to atrocities on the minorities, mostly Indian Hindus. What followed in the most popular game of cricket in India is obvious: the outrage in the social media crying hoarse over retaining Mustafizur Rahman in Shahrukh Khan’s KKR franchise for the IPL-2026 thus pressuring the BCCI to order KKR for Mustafizur’s release. And what followed in Bangladesh is also obvious: telecast of the IPL matches completely banned, and more ominously, Bangladesh refusing to travel to India for the T20 World Cup and asking the ICC fins alternate venues for their matches. We just cannot afford to witness another edition of the ‘no-handshake’ games with one more playing nation added. We just cannot go on watching the eternal clash of politics, diplomacy and cricket

We also cannot judge what’s right and what’s wrong in such a charged situation. While we cannot blame the Indian social media outrage or the overall animosity between the two neighboring nations, we cannot also blame the tit-for-tat by Bangladesh. Sport is basically a recreation, played mostly between friends or between friendly rivals in the true spirit of the game. And then look at the situation, not just in the Indian subcontinent but also across the world—wars that never seem to end; conflict after conflict; attacks after attacks; and arguably the most powerful leader of the world who’s been crying pitifully for world peace all the time suddenly deciding to raid a sovereign nation, overrule its regime and kidnapping and airlifting its President over for supposed trials. Pray! Why should we pretend and play on? 

If one sees another nation as a confirmed enemy then cut off all ties, including all kinds of sports activities—let it be bilateral or multi-nation world tournaments. Therefore, instead of carrying on with the absurd mock dramas the concerned top controllers of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh must find a way to stay away from playing the game of cricket with each other anywhere in the world, till the easing of animosity, if possible at all in the long term. You must call a spade a spade. Don’t beat around the bush in search of a chimera of peace and friendship! The history of the Homo Sapiens over the millennia is all too clear! Anybody listening?

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