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BRAND FROM BOOM TO DOOM ? MONOJIT LAHIRI investigates why and how India’s MONOJ gl most glamorous, popular, celebrated and eagerlyawaite sporting franchise is under a cloud. Can awaited it rec recover its glorious early days of freakout fun n’ e excitement? Can it bounce back to convince pote potential team-buyers that the bad luck visiting some of them is merely a coincidence and ache din aanewala hai, for sure? Was it all too much too soon, a hand grenade w waiting to explode … or is the IPL, like India’s dem democracy, super-resilient forever equipped to brave all storms and emerge triumphant? 33