Beyond the IPL's floodlights
Former IMF chief and potential French president Dominique Staruss-Kahn, was charged with sexual assault in a New York hotel
Akhila Ranganna
25-Feb-2013
Former IMF chief and potential French president Dominique Staruss-Kahn, was charged with sexual assault in a New York hotel. C Uday Bhaskar in the Economic Times draws a parallel with the recent controversy surrounding the disclosures of an IPL cheerleader who commented on a blog about the post-match behaviour in the IPL saying that some players treat young women like 'a piece of meat'.
Cyber space is inundated with conspiracy theories and Kahn is being portrayed as having been set-up for sharing the humanist and ethical concerns of Jo Stiglitz and that the real target is control of the top job of the IMF.
Be that as it may, the labor of this comment is to draw attention to a less noticed but similar development that is doing the rounds on the IPL cricket social circuit which has deplorable connotations. I must hasten to add that this is not a comment on cricket, but about the insecure status of women in general in India and how certain societal attitudes and behavioral patterns are being tacitly endorsed in one part of glitzy India.
Akhila Ranganna is assistant editor (Audio) at ESPNcricinfo