All about words and actions

The IPL fracas brings forth the interesting issue of how important communication is. To begin with, the IPL management may not have foreseen the violent reaction of the Pakistanis and the Pakistanis never dreamt that their top players could be so royally dumped in the forthcoming IPL3. 

To start with, what went into getting the Pakistani players onto the auction platform was really not the concern of the team owners. Nor did the IPL management stop to think as to what would happen in the event that none of the Pakistani players were bid for, given the state of our delicate relationship. With the last fall of the hammer, the Indo-Pak 'Aman ki Asha' fell apart!

Pakistan, to say the least, was not amused. The damage was done.

In fact, the damage control mechanism went on to make more faux pas.

The media was given the freedom to opine on an already burning issue. They went about it like a bull in a china shop. Finally, Lalit Modi spoke, rather brusquely, without facts and figures to back up his statements.

Each group in the process washed its hands off the whole drama. The team owners, the government and the IPL management.

Leaving the Pakistanis red faced and baying for more blood.

Why did this happen really? Because many-a-times when we act or speak, we share our point of view, without considering the effect that it may have on the listener, reader or viewer. Picking and choosing words or actions are mostly not given the importance that it deserves and at times we are at the receiving end of actions or words meted out by a third person or element.

There was no apparent planning in the building up of inter-relationships. The IPL management and the team owners, riding high on the IPL success wave, forgot to build bridges of goodwill through cohesive and concerted action.

Planned communication is critical. A good communicator, at the end of the day, wins the war, even as the battles are won by generals.

IPL failed to win the war, it only won the battles. 

Fallouts of hype

We have once again given Pakistan an emotional edge with the IPL fracas. It's time the Indian media came of age and made more intelligent analysis with a broader speaker basket.
Why do we Indians always have to be so righteous? What is right or wrong in those decisions? It's a simple business decision taken by the buyers who put their money on those players who they thought will bring them greater returns.
This is a no-win situation. If IPL had not invited the Pakistani players it would have led to a similar fracas with Pakistan screaming as to how they were ignored and not invited.
In what way is a state responsible for a business decision? We should let each one do his or her own job and let IPL be what it is...a cricket bonanza.

Let's not thrive on sensationalism

Ruchika, Haiti earthquake, hockey impasse, Jessica lal, RTI for supreme court, army misappropriation, assembly tandav...so much of news, views and sensationalism! In the world of consumer dictat, when you have more players than the market can adjust to, every journo, be it a newspaper writer, a radio broadcaster or a TV broadcaster, each one of them is rushing to catch the reader by the hands or the eyeballs or ear drums and what have u's!!!
Before you say life's like that, I wonder whether sensationalism has been good for us or for a select few who went hammer and tongs to achieve what they set out to achieve. There are millions of others who are in the same boat, but are unable to find a solution due to various inadequacies. 
Today, every known journalist comments on the Ruchika case with many tsk's and shaking of heads!
Even Prannoy Roy, who first talks about the shooting prices on his 9 o'clock news back tracks by saying that farmers gain by this price rise!
Hello, is urbanisation taking such a hit in this country? Hey, we don't want to be another US!