It’s time India considers legalising betting, a move that will address many issues with one swoosh of the wand. To name a few: revenue for the state, employment opportunities, and death blows to fixing and diversion of funds to criminal and terrorist activities. Get over your old, garden-variety moral compass.
Legalising betting will solve many issues with one wand. State revenue to end of match-fixing
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The Print happily pontificates on betting and advices us to get out of our “old, garden variety moral compass”.
But it would not speak a word on the anti-Hindu pogroms of Murshidabad. The mass exodus of Hindus from Murshidabad into Malda seeking refuge does not bother The Print.
The Print has for sure thrown out the “old, garden variety moral compass” of journalism.