It’s that time of the year. Schools are winding up and hill stations are taking record bookings from people trying to beat the heat up and down the country. The king of fruit, mango, is about to make it to shelves across India, with the season just around the corner.
But more than all these signs of summer, there is one unmistakable one: the start of the Indian Premier League. Since 2008, the IPL has gone from being a curiosity to a habit for Indians of different interests, genders and financial strata – you name it, the IPL has sucked in the population at large.
