Hundreds of millions of Indians are stupidly passionate about cricket. Repeated failures do not seem to reduce their enthusiasm. They have already forgotten the ignominy of the World Cup. In the recent Nat West series against England India were 3-1 down but recovered to 3-3, much to the delight of the broadcaster and the cricket boards, only to capitulate pathetically in the final at Lords. Because of these stupid millions sports channels keep showing cricket all day long. They show old matches from their archives, which cost them nothing, and rake in the profits. Genuine sports lovers are deprived of live sports. For instance only one sports channel is broadcasting selected matches of the ongoing Rugby World Cup even though regular matches are played in Calcutta and Bombay. Teams such as Calcutta Police, Armenians, LMOB, CFC, Bombay Gymkhana and teams from Sri Lanka play against each other but the sports channels ignore the sport thinking all Indians are stupid. A sizable chunk of these idiots bet illegaly ( called satta ) on the result of the matches and on such statistics as to whether Tendulkar will score a century. Instead of making betting legal and collecting a tax on it our criminal politicians have made it illegal. Result is that satta is controlled by criminal gangs, mainly that of Dawood Ibrahim. Dawood, in turn, is controlled by the Inter Services Intelligence ( ISI ) of Pakistan. Thus the vast amounts of money generated by satta is being used to finance terrorist activities in India. Pakistan does not have to spend any of its own money to kill Indians because idiots are hooked on cricket. There seems to be no solution.