Street Games of Childhood in India!!!

Hi all,
Gone are those days when we played a lot.Nowadays kids have so much load of homework,studies etc.Even likings are different they want to play Video Games.Watch TV etc.
I remember my childhood days we played Kabaddi-

When I was about fourteen I graduated into the school of toughs: I was allowed to join the Kabaddi team.

To play Kabaddi you need stamina, the capacity to hold your breath, quickness and mastery of the tactics of battle. It is almost like real warfare.

A line is drawn on sand or on soft earth. The two opposing teams, five to ten or more, stand on either side of this line.

A member of one team crosses the line into the opposing camp, chanting the magic word ‘Kabaddi, Kabaddi, Kabaddi’, without breathing. If he is able to touch one or two boys while still uttering the word ‘Kabaddi’, the person touched is ‘dead’ and the visitor runs back to his side.

Then another member from his team goes out. But it may happen that the visitor is caught on the opposite side by the fellow who is touched, or by someone else from the opposing team. Then he is said to have ‘died’.

Now a member from the other side goes out to visit the first team. A team has to ‘kill’ all the members of the opposing team to win the game.

I was too frail to survive long without being ‘killed’. But I learnt to hold my breath, and developed some daring. I also suffered many blows from those whom I had offended outside the Kabaddi field. They used the cover of this game to settle old scores.

Hi

very nice thread,,,,
I used to play Kabaddi also....let me share what was usual in the streets of Kolkata
then the monkey games...the monkey dances according to his master sings.

the Bear game....whether the bear shows circus.....

the cow game....where the cow plays as a fortune teller

then a man walking on a rope tied by two poles....

aur sab batao...kya kya khel hote theee.....waiting to hear from u guys


thanks

absolutely true.

Hi nini,

what wonderful games we all used to play..........

kabaddi, running & catching.

Nowadays kids don't have time to play ......

they are forced to attend some classes.

prabha