The entire India seems to be agitated today about the cricket and the mushy gambling. The socalled gentlemen game of cricket had been made into the ‘poorman’s game in this country and gamble had started long back. 

But, today the media and the public are waxing eloquent on this ‘Match fixing, Spot fixing’ since they have almost exhausted with the other scams. 

However, can we say that this type of gambling with the game is something new to India? Not at all. It had started in the Dwaparayuga itself when the Pandavas and its head the most upright and revered gentleman Yudishtra started playing the game of dice with his opponent Sakuni and Duryodhana knowing well that it would not have been a game of honesty. Further, he gambled not only his country and its people; but his entire wealth, brothers and wife too. All these happened when Lord Krishna (avatar) was very much around. 

So what is new about it when a supposedly straightforward, honest, law abiding who carried the name ‘Dharmaputra’ himself had fallen a victim to gambling why you find fault with the Kalyug’s most corrupt and greedy mortals for doing it? 

Our country was and is a country of vices, avarice, malice and treachery but keeps talking all the time about our great legacy, philosophy and faith in God. If only we don’t do it, it would be an anachronism. 

Our rulers are highly corrupt, our Godmen are womanizers, our leaders are self centered and our public is nonchalant and irresponsible. What else can happen in a nation like this where the population keeps increasing at the rate of many of the country’s total numbers? 

We will never change and we cannot change. The only thing which we will do is keep talking about all evils at the same time executing those evils with greater vigor. So let us keep talking about cricket scam till the next one surface.