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Being a supporter, a fan, and a crazy fan is different fron each other. It depends on how much adrenaline can possibly the team make your glands release. I'm sure a BIG KKR fan, but I've seen better. The noise that a tv room in a boy's hostel can bear when Gayle lobs one over the ropes, or Dada sends someone packing to the stadium, is beyond words. Sore throats aside, one can become seriously impaired on the hearing front if he stays a part of that group for too long. And certain incidents show how much we get pumped up to see the team from our region beat the other's blackasses!

A fight broke out in the hostel adjoining ours just after the KKR Vs Deccan Chargers match. Some Hyderabadis made provocatory remarks, and then what? They were given a sound thrashing by KKR fans for *trying* to provoke them. A couple o' guys' landed up in hospital too.. Oh yes.. the police had to be called in to control the mob.. for the search of a right word.

Back in Kolkata, around 500 prisoners in the eastern Indian jail went on a hunger strike after authorities refused to allow inmates to watch the IPL.

"We cannot allow cable television inside the jail compound," B.D. Sharma, a senior police officer, told Reuters in Kolkata.

Sharma said prisoners were only allowed to watch state-run television and read magazines and newspapers.

So much for the love of the Bengalis towards KKR, and in perticular, Dada.

P.S. Quote copyright Thomson Reuters