I think the IPL happened too quick. We didn’t get to truly savor the World Cup victory. We won, and then barely a week later, the Circus began. Now, I am a super IPL fan so nothing against that, but I feel that the Team and India could have basked in the glory of their amazing achievement a little bit longer before returning to the grind. We needed to ‘OD’ on our win. After all, it’s been 28 long years since ’83…and lord knows we have been subjected to the legend of Kapil’s Devils enough. Now a new legend is born, but before we can celebrate, enjoy, party, attend victory bashes, build temples, just go OTT in general – it’s back to work! The “winning squad” is now strewn across 10 IPL teams, fiercely competing with each other. Almost no one talks about the World Cup Win, which is sad – since we waited 28 years and 6 failed attempts, to be able to gloat once more:(
But business is business…got to keep moving. And in many ways, even this is a glimpse of the new India. Stuff happens, makes news, makes way for new stuff. Life today is like watching a fireworks display. One after another, these wonderful explosions happen, each one more dramatic than the other – in rapid succession. But unlike a firework display, life and personality never gets over. Nothing and No One holds our attention long enough. There is always the “next big thing”, whether star, saint or sinner, to fight for our shrinking attention span.
Anyway, the World Cup win is a great signal about the new India – we beat Australia, Pakistan and Sri Lanka on the trot, at home, with the pressure of a billion Indians bearing down upon MSD & Co, and the added pressure of having to do it for Sachin because it may be HIS last Cup!!! Talk about unreal expectations, and achieving them in style. And the winning team itself is a great success story of small-town India, and more importantly, about the amazing ability of Sport, like Entertainment, to become Accelerators of Social Mobility. There is a great movie or tv series or book here – about these 16 disparate individuals whose lives came together from different socio-economic backgrounds and diverse geographies, to achieve this stupendous success.
In the New India, the opportunities for Social Mobility grow exponentially, dramatically…and are everywhere:) The archaic caste system continually gives way to the New Meritocracy, and Success knows no race, religion, caste or color!
SAMEER NAIR 
Enjoying reading it every bit!