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Kochi IPL battle waged on Facebook & Twitter

Kochi IPL fans are fuming over naming of the side as ‘Indi Commandos’.

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Kochi IPL fans are fuming over naming of the side as ‘Indi Commandos’
Kochi IPL fans are fuming over naming of the side as ‘Indi Commandos’

 

By Shalini Puthiyedam

 

The ICC cricket World Cup is about to get under way, but is that what is a tiny piece of India on the southern tip of its extremity? No! The tiny state of Kerala is up in arms. Well, that is but natural in God’s own country. However, the protest is well…again for the game of cricket.

 

The Kochi IPL team, which birthed after a very prolonged and protracted labour, had its naming ceremony on Wednesday. It was christened “Indi Commandos”, probably owing to the long and bitter battle it waged to be born. However, the owners of this franchisee, a group of business people from Ahmedabad, probably did not anticipate the backlash that followed.

 

We know of the Malayalee and the natural attraction that exists between the Malayalee and revolution. The birth of “Indi Commandos” was the start of a war cry. The Malayalee was truly miffed. The team was supposed to be from Kochi, but the name Kochi did not figure in the scheme of things. The Malayalee is known for harbouring revolutionary illusions, but of a more sloganeering, flag-holding kind.

 

It was an insult to equate that highly-intellectual evolutionary being to a mortal commando. So, revolution was required. This time the flags of protest went up, not on the streets of Kochi though, but in data packets and byte combinations on Twitter and Facebook – the life-altering tools of our times. And has it been effective or not!

 

The last I heard, there were talks taking place regarding the re-christening of the “Indi Commandos”. The power of the internet and social media is here to stay and I think anyone who disregards it is doing so at their own peril.

 

However, if our social media activists (me included) could also provide the solution by arriving at a consensus on the name to be given to the baby, the cycle would be complete. I say, let’s take a vote after short-listing some potential names. Let the best coconut…err name win!

 

(Shalini Puthiyedam is an engineer by education and a linguist by profession. A voracious reader and music lover, her interest in cricket is as serious as any other Indian)

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