Folk artistes as cheerleaders

  

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ndians seem to lose no opportunity in disgracing themselves. For them, anything “imported” is the best. Unfortunately, even some of our rich traditions are recognized only after they bore a stamp of foreign approval.

      Or else how could one interpret a report in a section of the press that took a dig at the audience of the ongoing IPL matches for “threatening” cheerleaders with their “indecent” advances. It read between the lines: Shame on Indians.

     However, not only Indians anybody else in their position would have reacted in no better way than this to the skimpily-clad women.  I say shame on sponsors also. By mixing sports with this kind of entertainment, they are taking the gentleman’s game to a new low, though they think otherwise.

     Don’t we have any other way to add exuberance to the occasion other than cheering spectators? Yes, we have. The organizers can make use of the innumerable folk performing arts of the country.

     I feel this would lend more colour to the event. The spectators would look forward to something novel each time than the mere bum-shaking acts.