Ranchi Mental Hospital
Time 100 of 2011 named Mahendra Singh Dhoni one of the most influencial persons in the world. The List shows many names most Indians are not aware of. But in the last 24 hours PTI pretty much implied that Dhoni, rated above Obama, Ambani, Premji and neuro-scientist Ramachandran, is the biggest thing that happened to India since Mahatma Gandhi.
I call this syndrome Dhoni-ism. Its symptoms include and go beyond cronyism and crazy-ism. To recognize a victim of Dhoni-ism, you need to listen carefully for statements like the following:
- Give Dhoni Bharat Ratna right now.
- Ask Anna Hazare to shut up. Dhoni could win the ICC World Cup without saying a word about the billions of corruption allegations in Indian Cricket.
- India needs cricket more than education and politics. Did you watch Lagaan?
- India invented cricket. (search elsewhere in the blog for that piece).
- The Indian GDP growth rate is directly linked to the IPL 4 run rate.
- Poor people should not pray for rain or government tax concessions. Self belief, combined with some cricket, will deliver results.
- We should make Dhoni and other such heroes act in movies to improve our Oscar chances.
- Dhoni will win the next 3 World Cups also and show India is better than 3-time winners Australia. This is crystal clear in his horoscope where the Sun and Jupiter are housed together in the seventh house favourably.
- Dhoni should be the joint CM of Bihar, Jharkhand, UP and MP.
- Dhoni should sing the national anthem and that should become our official track.
