The Indian Premier League (IPL) is a professional Twenty20 cricket league, contested by ten teams based out of ten Indian cities. The league was founded by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in 2007. It is usually held between March and May of every year. A team can acquire players through any of the three ways: the annual player auction, trading players with other teams during the trading windows, and signing replacements for unavailable players. Players sign up for the auction and also set their base price, and are bought by the franchise that bids the highest for them. Recently there has been a trend of more players within India opting to play in the IPL than in the international circuit, which is typically how most international players gather experience for tournaments such as the World Cup or Champions' Trophy.

False consciousness refers a way of thinking that prevents a person from perceiving the true nature of their social or economic situation.

In the Octopus Game, players participate in a series of games in pursuit of winning a massive pool of money, that would make them and all their descendants financially independent. If they lose a game, they die.

Expositional storytelling is a method used in fiction, where the author explicitly states and portrays the meaning behind plot events and character motivations without leaving too much room for interpretation. By contrast, interpretative storytelling is when the author decides to show or write events or characters by codifying them behind a symbol or leaving them ambiguous to how the audience may interpret them.