The Ashes 2013: Of being English and Indian - a singularity of exchanges

And in all honesty, it doesn’t seem to shame or embarrass the men as much as it embarrasses the girls and women walking past. To them, it’s more of answering an expediency rather than any awkwardness making an appearance – like the English cricketers in question. In the rare off-chance that if at all there is someone who gets offended by such an uncivilised behaviour, rather than a common man complaining about the deed, it’s communities and groups citing religious or cultural misdemeanour that take umbrage to such behavioural antics.

What follows then is the token protests, media coverage and court dates and postponements and finally a verdict so delayed that may or may not affect the parties involved – either because of their death or because or some other issue having taken precedence over this one. The English cricket board, however, seems to have absolved the guilty parties by merely telling them to ‘grow up.’

Stuart Broad (L) and James Anderson of England pose with the urn after winning the Ashes during day five of the 5th Investec Ashes Test match between England and Australia at the Kia Oval on August 25, 2013 in London, England. (Photo by Gareth Copley/Getty Images)

For those who may wonder about any cohesion existing about the three English cricketers and Indians and their Indianness, I would like to pinpoint the correlation that exists between England – or Great Britain, if one would prefer – and its erstwhile colony, India.

The English behaviour in this instance appeared to have stemmed largely from the behavioural inputs provided by ours truly. Where India seems to have imbibed quite a bit of the rich British culture – including its language – it is only likely that in a weird twist of exchanges, the English cricketers (who spent the start of the 2012-13 season here in India) picked up some Indian traits, as unfavourable as they were, and going against the very grain of English societal ethics. That the action has affected the typical English sentimentality and thrown the whole aspect of the stiff upper lip into serious jeopardy is only to be expected.

As regards their rivals who got the incident into the limelight, in the first place; knowing the Australians’ track record with infamy, it is quite possible that there might be a bigger surprise of notoriety in store that the Australian cricketers would be planning – in retaliation. After all, they too had been spending time in the sub-continent in the summer.