Letter from Tigers of Tadoba to Hon. Modiji & Amitji Shah!

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Hon Shri Narendra Modiji & Shri Amitji Shah, Saprem Pranam from Tigers of Tadoba!!....

 

“Wild animals are less wild and more human than many humans of this world” ― Munia Khan

“In the delicate intersection between untamed habitats and the ever-expanding web of roads, roadkill emerges as a familiar tragedy, a testament to the perils faced by wildlife in their struggle for survival amidst the encroaching human presence.” ― Rove Monteux

‘This is a country of strong beliefs. Just because some two people say something, people don't bow down”…. Shri Amitji Shah  Ho.Home Monsiter of India

“It is my firm belief that the solution to all problems lies in dialogue” … Shri. Narendra Modi, Prime Minister, India

“The only drawback of the tigers by me is, they are not a vote bank for the humans” … Me.

Dear Sirs,

We only can hope (and pray) that these words reach you as that’s the only hope for the species who has assigned us this job to write to you & on that single species lies the fate of thousand many more species! Yes, we are writing on behalf of tigers ,let's say, a group of tigers residing near tadoba forest. First & foremost, we are (along with tigers) thankful to you for achieving great success on a front where no other country in the world has succeeded & that is, increase in numbers of tigers, especially in Chandrapur District of Maharashtra & this credit must be given to you both as top bosses of the system which we call govt! But there is a phrase in Marathi, “Yuddhat Jinke & Tahat Gamawle” mean you won the war & lost it in making treaty after the war (your friend Trump can explain it better way, sorry sarcasm) & this phrase is the exact situation to describe what’s happening on the front of tigers right now in entire country. Obviously where population is most the problems are at their peak for e.g. problems of infrastructure inadequacy such as water scarcity, air pollution, traffic jams (to name a few) are worst in cities such as Bengaluru, Pune, Mumbai as humans’ population is more (read as concentrated) in these cities or region! Exactly going by the logic as Chandrapur district has maximum numbers of tigers in the entire world, problems for the tigers are at peak here which you only can solve is subject of this letter!

In the same way, space is biggest problematic issue for the tigers & like you have your efficient minister Roadkari alias Gadkariji for the human’s comforts & many other to take care of humans needs, there is no such provision for a tiger even though we call him a King of the forest that’s why we have to right letter to King & Dy. King of Humans i.e. you two! The list of problems in front of the tigers is long but this particular letter I am writing for shifting a railway track which connects Ballarshah to Gondiya & cuts across Tadoba region’s major forests which has taken life of more than a dozen of tigers in just last five years along with many sloth bears, leopards, deer & lots of other wild animals which are part of chain we call wildlife! Most recent is, on 28^th May 2026 a young tigress got killed near Sindewahi/ Bramhapuri, on this railway track! Respected Modiji & Shah sir, we agree, railway lines are important for humans & they serve a great deal for our comfort but unfortunately unlike humans we can’t teach how to cross a railway track carefully, to the tigers, which cuts across right from their home i.e. forest! Even in our home, imagine in a passage if we tie a rope across & put a signage there, “rope across be careful’! Yet I am sure every other day one or more family members will tumble over that rope & here we are talking about a railway track with railway’s travelling on it with full speed all the day & night on it & it’s like a rope tied across the passage in home of a tiger, imagine what’s the scene here!

Time & again many wildlife lovers even forest dept. has requested the concerned bosses in Delhi for making necessary arrangements for safety of tigers & other wildlife which is under direct threat because of this railway track but nothing has been done & recently last week a young tigress lost its life on the very same track! Modiji, have you ever experienced such a sight in a forest where a tiger has died under the railway or been hit by a truck on road, I am sure you haven’t. Indeed, in this country where nearly one & half lakh humans die in road accidents every year, death of few tigers isn’t big thing but the major difference is, humans have built roads, railways track along with trains & cars by themselves & for their comfort & so they have made safety arrangements also & traffic rules which when they only ignore, accidents happen & tigers has no such provisions! Here, this Gondiya-Ballarsha railway track, the tigers haven't  built it so they don’t know how to cross it safely & they don’t know what time a train is coming on it, accordingly they should avoid crossing at such times, this track. Imagine a tiger, king of jungle happily or with pride moving in jungle, & a railway track comes in its path & he tries to cross it just as a small stream or undulation in the path & suddenly a very large smoke blowing object charges at the tiger & just crushes him! What the tiger must be thinking when he was meeting his death under a speeding railway engine, he wouldn’t even understand what killed him & why, that’s the look in the eyes of most dead wild animals which I was unfortunate to witness in “road kills” (term for such deaths of wild animals) & it haunts me ever, those questioning eyes, what’s my fault, human! And Hon Modiji, when the tiger in such mishaps is a tigress which dies leaving her cubs, have we ever imagined what happens to those cubs! As any death is sad even of humans where mom dies leaving her kids behind but we are social animals & we have someone to take care of such kids in most cases but when you are cursed of being a tiger then there are no socialites! The tigress always instructs cubs not to come in open or leave their place unless she returns from her round which usually is for food & when such tigress meets her death in the form of a railway engine, the poor cubs keep waiting desperately for their mom, nobody to tell them that she will never return now & nobody to feed them & in most cases these cubs die because of starvation as they don’t move from the place which their mom has asked them to stay at, till her return. If the cubs are fortunate to be found by forest dept then also they can’t survive on their own in the wilds & has to spend the rest of their life in captivity, just because their mom doesn’t know how to cross a railway line or a highway!

So, Hon Modiji & Shah sir, let’s take an oath on this World Environment Day (5^th June 2026), no more deaths of tiger on railway track or highways & let’s start from making such arrangements at this particular railway track in Sindewahi-Mul region of Chandrapur, is our humble sincere, heartfelt request to you! And it's not rocket science, agreed, the track is in existence, so, first make it fenced with chain-link all along & then make overpass as well underpass at every 1 km distance of just 30 to 40 ft wide in all the forest patch with load to carry only animals’ weight, not something heavy. Wild animals are much smarter than humans & they understand safety better than us & eventually will star using these passes for sure. As well, we can take solutions from the experts also for the same & till that time at least curtail the speed of all the trains passing from this track, this much you can definitely do. At the same time conduct a constant awareness drive among railway staff including engine drivers till the alternate arrangements are in place & most importantly make budget provision for the same & a monitoring system for it under your strict supervision!  One of the most popular hashtags on social media is #ModiHaiToMumkinHai, only unfortunate thing is, tigers don’t have social media account & can’t post their plea on Man-Ki-Baat, so we are doing this for them & we can only hope that these words reach you & the change starts from railway-track in Bramhapuri-Chandrapur range! To conclude, dear Modiji & Shah Sir, Modiji has said in his one of speeches, “every problem can be solved via dialogue”, so please consider this letter as a dialogue from the tigers of Tadoba for their problem with the railway-track, is all we can say; awaiting your kind attention & action for ever, thanking you in advance …!!

.... Hemangi Vartak (09923558588), Anuj Khare, Vinod Bartakke, Sanjay Deshpande & many wild life lovers & Tigers of Tadoba.

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Bandhavgarh to Gunjewahi & Life Around Tigers!

 

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“The only biodiversity we’re going to have left is Coke versus Pepsi” … Chuck Palahniuk

“Perhaps COVID-19 will prove to be a wake-up call. We now have the most selfish of reasons to save biodiversity -- our own welfare.” … Dan Saladino

“We don’t want tigers, if you love tigers then take away all tigers from our village & keep them in your city” … Comment on an Insta Post about the Tigress attack on villagers near tadoba, 22 May 26.

“A tiger is cursed by nature in such a way that for him, every other species is either prey or enemy” … Me.

The sharing was supposed to be about Bandhavgarh forest which is one of my most favorite forests & I could have tag it with Sanjay Dubri piece but one, Dubri sharing went quite long (Dhurandhar part 1 types) & it would have been real punishment to make people read so much at one go & second when I started to write about my Bandhavgarh trip, two saddest of news about wild life came, one,   a tiger named Pujari got killed in territorial fight in Bandhavgarh & a tigress killed (sorry, wrong term, as killed is outcome & not intention) four women villagers near Tadoba ; both these news really made me numb & I thought sharing my views (read as feelings) with Bandhavgarh only. And I am not man of much sentiments, as well I am well aware of practicality of forest & wildlife where emotions needed to take backseat, yet we are living being that too so called most evolved once & we have emotions, feelings, & thanks to social media’s algorithm & AI tracking, my cell was flooded with images, posts about both incidences to such extent that I lost few nights sleep over them! I was sad yet I knew the sadness is the outcome of the frustration or helplessness about not being able to do anything for Pujari or the tigress in tdaoba & her cubs as well as for the women who lost their lives, so this sharing!

Ok, first some good things as visiting Bandhavgarh always makes me overwhelmed & this was a trip with foresters (my group of like minded friends for wildlife) & we were staying at Tiger Den which is right in Bandhavgarh town’s (as no more its village now) main road. I remember this main road nearly twenty years back with hardly few eating joints Dhaba types on it & some grocery shops & as the sun sets the village used to be silent & you could hear alarm calls on this road as some two meters on its left side (going towards umria) the forest core zone starts. Today with modern eateries, posh super shoppees, even saloons & wine shop is there now. The Tiger Den has old charm as it’s one of the oldest establishments & has directly fronted on this main road. The hotel team greeted me with a smile & two Alsatians dogs were there to shoo away the monkeys jumping on to roofs of cottages as this property has got many old trees which are home to birds & monkeys of ages & we are the intruders actually. The sight of gray languor jumping around & dogs barking to chase them reminded me such sight of my own home town Khamgaon, in Vidarbha & even in Pune’s Kothrud area I have seen monkeys on trees in early 90’s, now the monkeys has gone & so are most of the old trees! It was indeed heartening to see the monkeys here in Tiger Den! And from the next day morning we started exploring Bandhavgarh with mercury rising with every passing hour though with green patches especially in Magdhi & tala zone, the summers here are better than tadoba (read as bearable)! I have stopped mentioning or counting tiger sightings in Bandhavgarh as one, it’s a forest which offers a lot more than tiger sightings & two, because of its size the movement of tigers keeps changing except in the deep core zone. Means, on all four sides of Bandhavgarh there is forest & villages, so barring the dominant tigers which can hold their respective territory, the tigers keep moving in & out of the tourism area making it difficult to keep count of them even after sighting! And in recent times, post Covid, wild elephants also have made Bandhavgarh’s magdhi zone mainly as their home making things more interesting here. The signs of wild elephants can be seen from broken branches of trees, to mauled grass patches to trenches dug all around the forest chowkis (to prevent elephants from attacking these chowkis at night), though we didn’t see much of elephants this time but their presence can be felt everywhere!

The major problem of increased numbers of tigers is, females leaving their cubs early is when they are hardly eighteen or twenty years old which is why the incidences of attacks on humans or death of the tigers is increasing in & around major forests in India & Bandhavgarh is no exception to this phenomenon. As forest dept can protect tigers in protected forests but it is helpless (like a toothless & clawless tiger) out of protected forests & here also situation is tense most of the time. Every other day there is news in dailys, of leopards or tigers entering human settlements, or attacking humans or getting killed. Its race for survival for everybody in which the tigers are bound to lose is a sad fact unless we sit together and find a solution for the same. Another aspect is parks facilities from the tourism aspect as we want tourism but we don’t provide basic facilities like clean toilets inside the park. The top bosses can provide budget & get the washroom facilities built but it’s the ground staff which must maintain them & sadly it’s not happening, projecting very poor (read as bad) image of our country’s tourism on the world map! In Khitoli zone there were beautiful washrooms built but were locked as no water supply was there & at another place water supply was there but tanks were not filled, the outcome is, all the restrooms inside the forests were in very bad condition. We can appeal to the local hoteliers to sponsor manpower for the same & use that for maintaining toilets, all the forest dept has to do is give these humans passes to enter in the forest just the way the solar panel maintenance team does for solar water pumps. It can be a big plus point on the service front for the safaris for all the factors! Hopefully, this will reach to someone who can act & will as I saw nearly forty percent tourists were foreigners who already tease our country on the cleanliness front! I think in every park there must be a committee with all stakeholders representatives on it & every month there should be a meeting with agenda & points involving betterment of forest/wildlife at large by which many policies as well issues can be resolved. At the same time the park management must have a regular dialogue with tourists about their experiences as well as suggestions as many of these tourists have experience of travelling across the globe & their right suggestions can be thought of implemented. One more aspect (read as hurdle) of visiting many forests in MP is connectivity as if the forests are a boon for wildlife, then they are an obstacle for having developments here & affecting faster means of communication such as air travel. The MP govt must make treaties with air companies (long shot) for more connection flights & at destinations near to forests, as by road it takes a whole day to reach destinations such as Panna or Bandhavgarh from many major cities in the country & that refrains many tourists from visiting these locations! As well this must be part of the system & not for some officer who has interest in all such things which is main problem with our govt bureaucracy! 

Though for me just being in Bandhavgarh & explore its vastness is a joy which doesn’t get reduced by any such obstacle which I did enjoyed to the fullest. Best part was a heartwarming encounter with tigress Raa & her sub adult cubs & to watch a mother’s care for growing kids as well keeping distance from them too, to make them able to survive on their own! As well whenever I used to see a bund along any waterbody, I used to think someday I can click a tiger standing on such bund & the frame will be jungle behind & water ahead but every time either the tiger is already in water or has left & I have never been able to click such frame, till this trip! The male sub adult cub of Raa tigress suddenly approached from behind bund while we were waiting at a waterbody & had there been any bigger tiger it usually doesn’t linger on the bund & immediately enters water but as this was sub adult tiger & its mom must have taught him to be cautious always, it waited a while on the bund giving me full chance to click it & then slowly it entered in the water body. I smiled at myself for the way the forest gifts me opportunity to tick my wish list, every time in some way! With many such incidents I left Bandhavgarh, oh yes there was an interesting incident which as usual was hot cake news media & digital media in Bandhavgarh while we were there. An Innova vehicle which doesn’t have a permit to enter the national park entered in tala zone & went inside right where a tiger sighting was on, causing enough hohalla in park management as well as the media. Apparently, the car’s driver put google location of Vishnu temple which is inside park & didn’t know about entry rules & the guard at the gate was a lady & new entrant in forest dept & somehow, she must have thought it’s a govt vehicle & let it in by making entry. These things do happen but social media is so fussy about forests such as Bandhavgarh that they take this as threat to wildlife & such & the poor guard got suspended from service! I think sensitiveness is ok but overdoing it is wrong especially with wildlife, be rational & practical as that’s the way to achieve the goal of conservation, is what I feel!

Now coming to the sad part of sharing, it’s about the death of a very handsome & big male tiger named Pujari in Bandhavgarh in territory fight & one will say, that’s a natural death which is but too many natural deaths in territory fights is something I want to point out! And then in one of the most shocking incident of man animal conflict, a tigress attacked a group of tendu patta collecting women villagers near Tadoba forest in Maharashtra & killed four of them on spot! Exactly a year back near very same place i.e. Gunjeawahi Taluka Sindhewahi, three women were killed during tendu patta collection but it seems we don’t learn anything out of it! You won’t ever imagine the panic, anguish among the villagers at Gunjewahi where in one go four humans are killed & we could have avoided it! The common factor between Pujari’s territorial fight death & the four unfortunate women’s deaths in tdaoba is, our success of increasing numbers of tigers & our failure on the front of giving them their rightful space, is my subject of sharing! Immediately responding to public cry, the govt machinery moved & till today the tigress in that area was captured with one cub as she was with cubs & has attacked for their protection & search for other three cubs to capture is on, God bless them!  Here I won’t bother you much with my views but will share my Insta posts about these both incidents & appeal you all (the readers) to act, raise voice, share your feelings as there only is some hope for the tigers & humans living around them adios with this warning! …BTW, interestingly (read as, sadly) the day four women got killed in that tigress attack was when we were busy celebrating World Biodiversity Day i.e. 22^nd May!

My Insta posts…

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 Thucydides Trap, Pujari & D1...

When an emerging power threatens or displace an existing power, the phenomenon is called Thucydides Trap & here the emerging power was D1 named male tiger while existing power was Pujari, and the regional hegemon (region)of the battle was

Khitoli range of Bandhavgarh forest!! Though one look at Pujari & nobody will believe this size tiger can get killed by any tiger, even of his size leave apart D1 which is 3/4th of Pujari's size, my guess!! The only logic is, D1 was fighting with one motive, that is kill Pujari! I am not a tiger expert but I have seen both these tigers & it would be a fight which must not have last long as or else Pujari would have seriously wounded D1. As well, big size if is a tool to dominate then it can be your weakness in death defining fights with D1 directly going for neck of Pujari & caught him of-guard with fast speed as he must be knowing if Pujari gets even one chance to counter attack then that 250 plus kg mass would hit him like a tank & battle may be won but with big damage which could have been fatal even for the winner. Just the way what happened with CM alias Chota Matka in tadoba & younger Bramha, with later one died but CM also got seriously wounded resulting in his regime ending in captivity. What happened between D1 & Pujari now is those only know & the forest around which was witness of fight but one thing is sure, repeated territorial fights especially of male tigers are outcome of reducing forest area making two or more male tigers needed to share single territory & numbers of tigresses in it. Agreed, it was core forest but if enough area is available with food & mating options then these fights will be fewer is a fact though tiger especially males are individual species & wants their dominance around yet we are failing to provide them their deserved space is a fact & in future such Thucydides Traps we will be seeing more for sure may it be tigers or nations like USA & China. Sorry Pujari, we couldn’t provide you your space & couldn’t save you, RIP;

 

#thucydides #pujari #tiger #bandhavgarh

#wildlife

We are Sorry...!!

We are sorry captured tigress mom for taking away your freedom & ur cubs along with it, & We are sorry all four women for not being able to save your life & we are sorry for villagers around our forests also, for making you live under fear of tigers, sloth bears & such animals. We are sorry villagers for not making you self-sufficient so you don't have to go to forests with tigers for some rupees & we are sorry for all tigers for allowing humans to come in your forests, we are sorry for every that thing which we could have done to avoid loss of life of humans & tigers but we didn’t!! Yet, we won't give up, we will try to strike a balance where tigers & humans will live together, as accidents will still be there which they happen in our comfortable concrete jungles also but we don’t give up living, right?? We will be working for making tigers able to live in a way where they won’t accidently bump on humans & humans won’t be needed to bump with a mom who will attack them thinking they are enemy of her cubs!! We take this pledge, as that’s the only right way...

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#gunjewahi #chandrapur #tigress #savemyhome

 

Victims of Uncertain Fate!!

4 human lives gone, and a family of tiger gone along with those lives, with mom tigress captured, with 1 cum & rest 3 cubs’ fate uncertain. I have all sympathy for the lost lives of 4 women as their kids also must be waiting for their mom to come, just the way this cub is waiting for his mom!! Only difference is, as humans we have a family to take care of our kids while this cub will have to spend his life ahead in jail along with his siblings, only if they are lucky to get captured or else forest will take away their life also from them...!! When will we be able to make a balance & how many more lives from both sides we need to lost!! We want tigers but we don’t give them their space, to open all forests for tourism is the only way as then the locals will be aware of tigers & earn some money along or else this is just beginning of a silent war between wild & human which has only one end, death of all other species than the humans...

#tadoba #coexistance #savemyhome #chandrapur #modi 

News about Wildlife Tourism is Botheration for Wildlife! 

foolish news about tourism is botheration for wildlife rather, only tourism can save wildlife now and humans also... had there been tourism in sindewahi range, the tiger or tigers who attacked and 4 unfortunate women got killed would have been noticed that there is tiger moment and there are cubs or they are in mating and the locals could have warned and they would have been careful or avoided that part of forest!! rather all forests should be open for tourism so we can give earning to the locals & keep an eye on tigers & such animals.. Sanjay 

#wildlifetourism #savemyhome

 

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IPL Edition 19th; Sport or Circus !!

 

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“No cricket team in the world depends on one or two players. The team always plays to win’... Virat Kohli
“Cricket is not everything, not by any means, but it is a large part of who I am’... MS Dhoni
“Nothing is easy in cricket. Maybe when you watch it on TV, it looks easy. But it is not. You have to use your brain and time the ball’… Rohit Sharma
“The assumption now is that the interests of the brand and of the game overlap to the degree that cricket need hardly be mentioned.” ― Gideon Haigh

“Cricket may be the game of gentlemen but now it’s the game of businessmen” … Me

Three quotes by three greatest names from Indian Cricket (and IPL too) while Haigh is sports critic. And then my outcome from these great’s wisdom, to set the tone of sharing & needless to say it’s about cricket!

Last year in this month (IPL Month) I came across a meme where there was a screenshot of an IPL match & inset ad featuring Ranveersing & Deepika Padukone & the line says. “Ranveer Deepika ke adse time mile to bich bich me IPL ka match dekh leta hu”! The meme showed the kind of importance of commercial break (which were very often) during the matches of IPL & on that background this year there are reports & murmurs & posts about how the viewership of IPL has dropped & the popularity of the event (can’t call it tournament) has been on downslope. This can be part of the media war from those who aren’t sponsors of IPL or beneficiary but you can’t fool all people all the times, is true even for the biggest event in sports in this country, is also equally true! And among all these media wars there is a sport named cricket which is worshipped by all religions & caste, is my subject of sharing! I have written a lot about cricket & personalities’ but rarely have I shared my views about IPL & the reason is not many take it seriously but just as an entertainment is a fact, how much so ever we deny it! If you call IPL a serious game or sport then you can compare some club singer with Raffi or Lata’s (plz google) concert also & I am not disrespecting art or performance of the club singer, just telling you the difference! Indeed, everybody can’t reach where Raffi, Lata had & even the club singer also does his job sincerely & sing & entertain us, but that’s all what is common between them!

Btw if you don’t know IPL then it's ok if you stop reading here though you can for the commercial aspect as well the way the game is played (cricket) & how it can help us in our respective field, so be it! Imagine a test match cricket game where you have four slips, silly point, gulley, mid-on, midwicket & just one or two fielders on boundary & the bowler running with the ball menacingly aiming for the head of the batsman with 140 km/hr plus speed & the batsman helplessly tries to get away from the path & in the process ball takes edge of the bat & travels in the hands of one of the closing fielders! Or, the batsman is surrounded by fielders in such a fashion that except from plumb front side you can’t even sight him & the spinner spins web of the flight with till end you don’t know where the ball will turn & making batsman unsure whether to defend the ball or attack & result is catch in the hands of closing fielders or the lone fielder on boundary! Now look at this, IPL match, world's best bowler marching towards the unknown rookie batsman with no slip as field restrictions are there & target is to save runs, & the batsman swings the bat fearlessly (or desperately) & the ball sails in to the ground for six in the direction which even the batsman doesn’t know! The same thing is with the best spinner, there are no closing fielders to make the batsman think how to play, all he has to do is hit the ball as hard he can hit & send it in stand! The bowler has only four overs, the pitch is dry & dead without any spin or bounce, the bowl can’t be getting old as its only twenty overs match as well the pitch also isn’t going to deteriorate as entire game is going to be finished in mere four hours, means two sessions of a test match! So, all bowlers can do is control as many runs by bowling safe & in the process if can get a few wickets then its bonus!

If you are cricket watcher (I am not even saying fan) then earlier scenes are from test matches or one day games & later is from IPL & no wonder the predictability of the game in the later types is the reason for reduction in viewership as well from sponsorship! Yet IPL remains the biggest money-spinning event of the country’s sports world is a fact but high time to make it more better or else in the era of twenty seconds (reels) it won’t take much time to fade up whatever money is there for now, a reminder for us also for our products whatever they are, is my subject of sharing! I do watch IPL, two things, I love sports & second it used to be good entertainment without any violence or sex or coarse language which seems to be three-legged script for any series or movies in recent times. But what any sport needs most is, uncertainty & equal opportunity for all players to excel & exactly this year’s IPL is lacking it! Nearly seventy percent matches have been where both teams are making two hundred plus runs & still batting first team end up losing the game & the only reason is, the team’s bosses (read as franchise owners) are killing the sports aspect of the game by making it too much batsman friendly! We love to watch sixes just the way we love to watch tigers in the forest but imagine what will happen if every day & on every safari you are seeing the same tiger at the same spot, you will lose interest from the safari as it won’t be a jungle but a zoo, right? This is what happening in this edition of IPL; as even when first team has scored two hundred plus runs, we know other team is going to make it in nine out of ten times, then we lose interest from the match as it’s no more a match but a routine & that’s boring, high time for our country’s cricket bosses to know this truth about games, if the still consider IPL as game!

Indeed, the event has given a platform & opportunity to make careers to many new players & once in a while there will be wonder-boy Vaibhav Surywanshi (plz google) to brighten the fans but look what quality players we are getting in through IPL! And if we are taking the star performance of IPL players in the national team for test format & one-days, then while IPL is in full bloom (going on) our ranking in the test match format has gone down to sixth place, even Bangladesh is above us, is my subject of sharing! As even in football where league tournaments are popular & makes money yet they don’t deviate from the basics of the game & players still consider playing for nation above everything & FIFA world championship has highest regards of every football player, is the difference here! And the timing of the IPL is another aspect as merely one month after Indian team became World Champion ins T20 format, IPL started & outcome was barring two names ( Ishant Kishen & Sanju Samson) who themselves were a surprise entry in Indian team, all the super stars of team India made a big flop show in IPL as fatigue of playing an international championship tournament is too much & it has taken toll on most of team India’s players yet the bosses made them to play in IPL as here money is the stick not some cup or trophy! This is why greatest names like MSD or Rohit are paraded like Disney Parade just to make people (Janata) i.e. fans happy that their Superstars are alive & kicking though one of them didn’t play a single match & another who has won India a world cup has been made to play as a substitute under name of impact player, what an insult of the game, is my subject of sharing! Full marks to Virat though as he has put-up great show yet defeating his age till now in every IPL & everybody in respective fields must learn from that! But trust me, this won’t go for long however successful the IPL event may seem today. In nineteen years from the time IPL has started for the first time, there is a drop in viewership, the hype on media is less which is visual & there are no heated arguments in public places (read as bar & pubs) over the team’s performances, all are indicators of the downfall of IPL. Rather in one of the restaurants where we were having dinner the screening of IPL was made to go mute by the patrons as nobody was interested in watching, this I myself witnessed but our BCCI (plz google) & cricket bosses are turning a blind eye on it! I am not saying IPL is dead but we need to revive or it will be dead & run it as a sport & not some event like a big fat wedding where everything is orchestrated by the hosts as the public is fool but not that fool!

Then comes the quality of the game, as indeed IPL has given our country’s talent a big platform as well money no two minds about it but look at the career of players who have come from IPL platform & where they stand now. On one side players from football premier leagues all across the world are making way in their country’s respective teams & doing great for the country while barring one or two players like Rinku Singh & Abhishek Sharama rest all can’t stand the opportunities on international level. Sai Sudarshan is the best example of it as he is piling runs in IPL but in England his approach as well technique got exposed on pitches which are not prepared keeping IPL outcome in mind & same is happening with other players too. While our genuine talent like Rushabh Pant & Jasprit Bumrah gets bashing for poor performance in IPL just because they can’t keep up with the way this circus is being played. But again, there is different dynamics of team owners as more the players from the respective team are part of the national team, that takes your team’s ratings high in the eyes of sponsors & so-called fans, so getting entry in national team by any way becomes a priority & that’s why Ranji Trophy winning team’s names doesn’t even come in media but you bang four sixes in some IPL match & you are a national hero, is something we must think about! Coming back to quality of game, this IPL must be the poorest on fielding aspect as so many catches are dropped by every team that BCCI should star Best Catch Drop award than best Catch award, is the scene & we saw the same repeating by Indian team in the T20 world cup also, which costed us nearly the cup! Why nobody is speaking anything about it, again the answer is money factor, in nutshell you can’t say any bad wort about IPL as that’s taboo, you may be a legend like Sunil Gawskar or Sachin Tendulkar but you need money, so keep you mouth shut is the mantra which is prominently been felt while watching & reading about IPL this edition! Guys, this country warships two things, Cricket & Cinema, but you can’t keep taking the new genre granted as here even King Khan’s picture can flop if he doesn't deliver & IPL too is not an exception for this rule. This principle of philosophy is needed to be understood by every profession & business (even politics) as don’t take our patrons for granted. Today your business may be making money & looks super successful but if you don’t change & deliver what people really want & try to dilute your originality then one day you will be doomed for sure, is my subject of sharing!

To conclude about future of IPL I will share a story from Panchatantra about a whimsical King, long long ago there lived a King who likes to entertain weird things (well, that’s what Kings do) & one day he announced he will pay handsome reward to anybody who will make him invisible but if that guy fails then his head will be chopped off! Obviously, nobody accepted a challenge till one day a smart man (read as con man) came & told the King that he can make him invisible but on two conditions. One is he will be rewarded after the rituals have been completed which are necessary for invisibility & King will follow all his orders till then. King immediately agreed & the man made some Puja & such thing & told the King that from next day morning he will be invisible but only to his well-wishers’ & friends & not to his enemy’s eyes; means those who can see him will be King’s enemy & he asked the king to make this news public! King’s men did that & next morning King woke up thinking he is invisible & decided to parade the city naked. He rode on his horse naked & as it’s been announced the one who can see the King will be considered as King’s enemy, nobody acknowledged Kings’ presence & the King thought he has become really invisible, he handsomely paid the man who made this possible & the man happily went off! While people were looking at the King & pretending they didn’t see him, one small kid who had come to the city with his father, asked his dad, “father, who is that man sitting naked on the horse? His father said, he didn’t see any such man & walked away, but the King heard that Kid & realized his foolishness & from that day he stopped doing such weird things! Well, the King learned his lesson the hard way, I only wish our IPL Bosses had read this Panchatantra folk tell & they too learn from it or else one day the IPL itself will vanish, adios with this note (warning)!!

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