The Young India

Kartikey Sehgal

Part one can be read here: Cricket and the Indian Woman–Part One

There are women who don’t like the sport and they don’t feign interest in the sport. They don’t buy tickets to go to cricket stadiums or spend hours watching live telecasts. Then there are women whose interest is solely sexual.

What bonds both the types is the subservient position that this sport has given them. Globalisation and relaxation of morals has exposed several cricketing countries to India’s sexual insecurity and her attitudes towards women.

Megha Swamy writes about how Bollywood, Govt. ministers and even neighbourhood aunties need a paradigm shift when it comes to their views on ‘womankind’.

Kartikey Sehgal writes that Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar have played masterful innings in the ongoing IPL tournament.

Kartikey Sehgal writes that 20-20 cricket is not really a game for young guns and that it requires experience and innovation.