{"id":5004,"date":"2008-03-02T13:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-02T08:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=2451"},"modified":"2008-03-02T13:49:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-02T08:19:00","slug":"open-letter-to-purba-dutt-re-ipl-auctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/open-letter-to-purba-dutt-re-ipl-auctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Purba Dutt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Purba Dutt<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/Opinion\/Sunday_Specials\/Sold_out\/articleshow\/2830457.cms\" title=\"Sold Out! -- Purba Dutt\">In a feature in the <i>Sunday Times<\/i> today<\/a>, you refer to the IPL auctions as &#8220;human auctions&#8221;, and compare it to the slave trade. You invoke <i>Uncle Tom&#8217;s Cabin<\/i>, and speak of indentured labourers being sold in &#8220;a heartless transaction.&#8221; You miss something here.<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to rhetoric, the cricketers were not on sale during the IPL auctions&#8212;their services were. The eight IPL franchises were effectively bidding for the services of the players as per contracts enabled by the BCCI that the players had willingly signed. This is quite unlike slavery&#8212;indeed, it is how you and me get by.<\/p>\n<p>If you choose to leave the <i>Times<\/i> someday and look for a job, you will effectively put yourself on the market just as these cricketers did. You will evaluate prospective employers, and go to whoever makes you the most appealing offer. There may not be a formal auction setup for it, but it will effectively be just that: your services will be on offer, and different employers will bid for them.<\/p>\n<p>So please, please, don&#8217;t compare this with the slave trade. Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>Regards<\/p>\n<p>Amit Varma<\/p>\n<p>Ps. You might also want to read <a href=\"\/theres-nothing-wrong-in-being-commercial\/\" title=\"There&#8217;s Nothing Wrong In Being &#8216;Commercial&#8217;\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Purba Dutt<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/Opinion\/Sunday_Specials\/Sold_out\/articleshow\/2830457.cms\" title=\"Sold Out! -- Purba Dutt\">In a feature in the <i>Sunday Times<\/i> today<\/a>, you refer to the IPL auctions as &#8220;human auctions&#8221;, and compare it to the slave trade. You invoke <i>Uncle Tom&#8217;s Cabin<\/i>, and speak of indentured labourers being sold in &#8220;a heartless transaction.&#8221; You miss something here.<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to rhetoric, the cricketers were not on sale during the IPL auctions&#8212;their services were. The eight IPL franchises were effectively bidding for the services of the players as per contracts enabled by the BCCI that the players had willingly signed. This is quite unlike slavery&#8212;indeed, it is how you and me get by.<\/p>\n<p>If you choose to leave the <i>Times<\/i> someday and look for a job, you will effectively put yourself on the market just as these cricketers did. You will evaluate prospective employers, and go to whoever makes you the most appealing offer. There may not be a formal auction setup for it, but it will effectively be just that: your services will be on offer, and different employers will bid for them.<\/p>\n<p>So please, please, don&#8217;t compare this with the slave trade. Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>Regards<\/p>\n<p>Amit Varma<\/p>\n<p>Ps. You might also want to read <a href=\"\"\/iublog\/article\/theres-nothing-wrong-in-being-commercial\/\" title=\"There&#8217;s Nothing Wrong In Being &#8216;Commercial&#8217;\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,41,10],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dear Purba Dutt - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/open-letter-to-purba-dutt-re-ipl-auctions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dear Purba Dutt - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dear Purba Dutt In a feature in the Sunday Times today, you refer to the IPL auctions as &#8220;human auctions&#8221;, and compare it to the slave trade. 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