IPL Reboots Today. It Could Provide Just The Psychological Boost We Need In These Desperate Covid Times

We in India love our numbers. In the last six months, these have mostly been about Covid cases and recoveries and infection rates and tests.

- Boria Majumdar

Each one of us has suffered from a sense of anxiety and helplessness, and incessant coverage of the rising numbers hasn’t helped. We desperately needed a release.

That’s why the IPL is so important. It’s a pan-Indian festival, so uniquely our own that each one of us associates with it in some form. No one needs to tell us to watch the IPL. We will do so voluntarily. No one will need to tell us to stay indoors, as we consume the spectacle that is starting to unfold in the UAE every evening, for the next two months.

It’s an unwritten stay at home order of sorts that will ease the pressure on the political class as India settles into a routine it was craving for so badly. Some are worried about the lack of fans in the stands. Frankly, it won’t matter. Fans are waiting to consume the action on television and digital, and each ball bowled and run scored will be watched by millions across the country.