India’s 300-plus television news channels have been no better than the print media, devoting almost all of their time to parsing every morsel of information leaked or announced by the police. A country that traditionally grinds to a halt during an exciting cricket match has now been ground into submission by its antithesis – the slow unraveling of illusions about a game that seizes Indians’ imagination like no other.
印度媒体很久没有如此给力了。在多年的腐败丑闻、政治闹剧和示威游行后，这简直是天降馅饼——结合了板球（全民疯狂的运动）和犯罪（国民劣根性）的故事。印度全国300多家电视新闻频道也和纸媒一样，把所有的时间都花在了分析警方泄漏或公布的蛛丝马迹上。此前，在印度造成万人空巷盛况的往往是激动人心的半球比赛，如今，整个印度因为其对立面而如痴如狂——这项绝无仅有的能够抓住全体印度人民想象力的运动的面纱正在被缓缓揭开。