{"id":5731,"date":"2007-04-06T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-06T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=723"},"modified":"2007-04-06T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-06T09:30:00","slug":"cricket-banned-as-young-boys-go-astray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/cricket-banned-as-young-boys-go-astray\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket banned as \u201cyoung boys go astray\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
IANS informs us<\/a> that cricket has been banned in a few villages in Haryana because, in the words of a panchayat head, “[t]his game is making the young boys go astray.”<\/p>\n When will these old fogeys understand that drugs and rock & roll and cricket and sex and so on are all just red herrings. There’s just one thing that makes the youth “go astray.” And that is youth.<\/p>\n That’s both sublime and tragic, but you can’t ban it, can you? Huh?<\/p>\n (Link via email from Lalbadshah<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"