IPL - a full-contact martial art

Instead of being banned for 11 matches by the organisers of IPL for having slapped Sree Santh, Harbhajan Singh should have been given a medal, writes a cheeky Jug Suraiya in the Times of India.

By giving Sree Santh a high-five across his face, Bhajji not only subsumed the noble traditions of cricket into the even nobler traditions of pugilism, but also brought the sport back into consonance with present-day Indian culture, as manifested by road rage, mob rule and fisticuffs in Parliament, another once-British institution which has been thoroughly indigenised thanks to the vernacular rituals of chappal-throwing and storming the well of the House.

Both Harbhajan and Sreesanth have a history of abuse and both could be in deep trouble, says Shantanu Guha Ray in the Tehelka magazine.

It is now evident that under the guise of this entity repeatedly and tiresomely called “fearless, young India”, all lines of conduct are being treated as mere patterns in the sand, writes Sharda Ugra in the India Today.