Create controversy to be in news....IPL style

IPL and Mr. modi has made an art out of courting  fresh controversies to be in news. It amazes me that now a days marketing wars are fought on twitter, media etc and uses  various players from actors, sports personalities, politicians and whoever the public wants to read/hear about. Not too many days ago we had the so called numero uno star of India taking on a ailing but spent force of a leader on media and twitter to keep his movie in news. All the hullaboo died mysteriously down within the first two days of release. Makes me think if the latest controvery of Mr. tharoor and Mr. modi is nothing more than media management to keep IPL in news. After all we know the way business is run in India with source of big money always being questionable, ownerships being run in complex relationships.
I may be playing my favourite role being a conspiracy theorist.

But cant help it mate!
We will come to know if am right if all this controversy dies a natural death with the end of IPL with all the players in the act involved living happily ever after.......
till then lets enjoy reading all the tweets...

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  1. chanchal soniApril 14, 2010 at 11:51 AM

    Out of the box thinking !!!
    Lets see, according to this, the entire controversy will end somewhere around 25th - the day IPL ends

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