What is IPL???

Have you even been asked this question? If so what was the answer... I sometimes wonder what answer I will have to this question.

Lets check it out. So, if someone was to ask me - What is IPL? My answer(s) would be:

• Its a political endeavour where money is made to flow from all possible corners.
• There are loads of sponsors to hog up the limelight. This makes the commentator go - 'this is a DLF maximum', 'citi moment of success'....
• Every 20-25 seconds there is a contest announcement that can be participated via IPL's website or via sending an SMS.
• Every day is also a beauty pageant nomination and the grand finale shall be on the Finals.
• Vodafone is cashing on its services/feature with the help of Zoozoos... This is my favourite part.
• Every now and then the camera is focused on the bollywood team owner who thinks the stadium is a theatre where he/she can perform their not-so-cool acting skills (I am glad SRK returned back home, it was impossible to tolerate him).
• The commercials are so important that they hog up action replay.
• 20-20 match format is stretched way beyond with the likes of Strategic Timeouts.
• It is extremely difficult to figure what I am view is a match telecast or a commercial, since cricketers have maximum advertisement sponsors and appear in most commercials and bollywood stars snatch the limelight during the match. May be a caption would help - "MATCH TELECAST" or "COMMERCIAL" :)

And in the middle of all this, players find time to PLAY CRICKET!