On Sourav Ganguly

I am a great admirer of Sourav Ganguly for the attitude he has imparted to the Indian Cricket Team. I was very sad when his cricketing career was almost forcefully truncated by the powers that be and later at the humiliation he had to face during the recently concluded IPL auction. Now he is back at IPL IV in the Pune Warriors outfit as a replacement to Ashish Nehera! Did he have to go this far to play the game? Is it because of the money? Is it because of pride? Is it because of unrelenting passion for the game? Or, is it because the dugout is an easy conduit for a player (with aspirations to control the future of the game) to the lobbies that decide the faces for powerful positions in the State Associations, later in the BCCI and far later in the ICC? If Dada says he is doing this to prove himself he is doing great injustice to his own body of work and his millions of admirers.