‘IPL: Glamour ridden sport, killing attention of other sports’, says Acharya Prashant

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New Delhi, June 06 2025 ((ANI): Renowned philosopher and author, Acharya Prashant, on Thursday, condoled the loss of lives in the Bengaluru stampede and said that the incident should not have happened.Talking about the reasons he cited unreal craze towards the game as a probable cause and went on to say that ‘IPL is killing the hype of other sports.’

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00:00There is a great perspective that you can see in two ways.

00:04One is that the youth's concentration is a glamour-ridden sport in 2008.

00:16One is that you can talk about it.

00:19And the other is that the same things are out of sport.

00:24I'm talking about sports inside.

00:27In fact, the greatest athlete, Indian athlete, we have, Neera Chopra,

00:36has crossed 90 meters.

00:38How much media coverage got here?

00:40Until now, Gokesh has taken the greatest chess player, Carlson.

00:51We also want to take a medal from outside, shooting, wrestling.

00:57Our athletes are going to perform, they are not getting any recognition from where they are.

01:02When we came to the Olympics, China was going to take 40 gold medals.

01:07We don't have anything.

01:08So this is the concentration of youth's energy

01:12at one point.

01:14The rest of the sports are the starvation,

01:19or the starvation.

01:20You don't get funds or attention.

01:22You understand?

01:24And you don't get cricket.

01:26It's not that there is a lot of cricket,

01:27let's say, athletics.

01:30Test cricket has been in the car.

01:34Now there is a very important series

01:36in England.

01:38We have never won the World Test Championship.

01:40We have never won the World Test Championship.

01:42We have won the finals in England.

01:44We are starting a series in England.

01:46What attention are you getting?

01:48We have dropped out.

01:51We have come from Australia.

01:53We have come from there.

01:55We have two countries.

01:57The test series is very difficult.

01:59South Africa, New Zealand.

02:01How do we see our production?

02:03This is why the rest of the sports are suffering.

02:06Test cricket is suffering.

02:07We have to go,

02:08and do we have to find out of it?

02:09If we look at it,

02:11if we look at it,

02:12the stampeds are everywhere.

02:15And in the place,

02:16the fields are very difficult.

02:18The fields are at that.

02:19You have to find out

02:20in the place.

02:21There are so many concerts in Kumbh, and you will remember many places and places where you can get one of them.

02:36I can't give them friends, because they are still there.

02:40There are so many places where you can get one of them.

02:46So this is the whole phenomenon.

02:48This is the whole thing.

02:50Whether it's a phenomenon in cricket, or a musical concert,

02:57it's all there.

02:58It's all there.

02:59It's all there.

03:00It's all there.

03:01It's all there.

03:02And it's all there.

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