What is common between Indian law and cricket?!?

The Great Indian Novel: that is the name of a new novel by Shashi Tharoor. It combines the Mahabharata epic with Indian history (independence struggle + the later few years) and comes up with a highly enjoyable story. This is the first book of Shashi Tharoor that I have read, and it makes me want to read more of his books. It has some excellent witty passages; here are a couple of excerpts.

• 'We must name the child Dvaipayana, one created on an island,' said Satyavati rather sentimentally to my father. He nodded, but it wasn't a name that ever seemed likely to stick. 'Women,' he said to me once, years later, shaking his head in amused tolerance. 'Imagine, a name like that for the son of a wandering Brahmin in British India. No Ved Vyas is much easier. I've always wanted a son named Ved Vyas.' And so Ved Vyas it was and, since I was a somewhat diminutive fellow, V.V. I became.
  
  
• Law, ofcourse, rivals cricket as the major national sport of our urban elite. Both ligitation and cricket are slow, complex and costly; both involve far more people that need to be active at any point in the process; both call for skill, strength and guile in varying combinations at different times; both benefit more from breaks in the action than spectators consider necessary; both occur at the expense of, and often disrupt, more productive economic activity; and both frequently meander to conclusions, punctuated by appeals, that satisfy none of the participants. Yet both are dear to Indian hearts and absorb much of the country's energies.