Arnab Ray is the author of "May I Hebb Your Attention Pliss" and "The Mine". He blogs at http://greatbong.net and can be followed at @greatbong. In the IPL you have a player being bought by a franchise, then telling the press that he has always wanted to play for that franchise. Till next year, when he’s let go and picked up by another, and he repeats the exact same line for the next franchise. In reality shows, you have once-stars and wish-I-could-be-stars fighting in a semi-scripted stage, with narratives of broken relationships and personal mistrust adding spice to the often synthetic conflicts. What ratings gold would it be to combine the two, and I’m sure every TV executive has had this idea, and now it has come to fruition, in the form of the Bengal elections.