MUNDU MASTI

Ahoy!!! G.A.M.E welcomes one and all to the opening of yet another eventful and exciting academic year, though what we would try to assay is to bring out the extracurricular frolic and fun that would waft around in the air all the time. For the record, G.A.M.E is a “wall magazine” or rather in more elegant terms the “PRESS” of the hostel which dishes out reports, reviews, analysis, score updates, interviews and much more, garnished with the expertise of many a connoisseur (read veterans) blended with the valuable viewpoints of the keen observer. So get ready and embrace yourself for the excitement that would sweep you away. IN THE WORDS OF THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY ZEUS TO THE OLYMPIANS “MAY THE GAMES BEGIN…”

Humanity invariably embraces Utopia when the sporting demigods get to the face each other in their respective arenas. A Paki fan, forgetting racialism and holding to his bosom the Tricolour and the Indian holding the Green and Crecent flag with shrieks of fanaticism thankfully absent - that’s Utopia, courtesy sports. But when a game concludes, both the parties may end up with a little cascade having ocular origins tracing “cheeky” paths – one cascade tasting nectarine, the sweetness of triumph, the other tasting saline- the bitterness of defeat. Only one hopes that this Utopian concept will chisel itself to perfection and the world can be more “sportious” than “spurious” not just on and off the field but at every geographical node.

Life is a game, play it. Well, that’s a downright winner. How about this—“a game embracing the stature greater than life!!.” A game that has aroused zealotry into zenithous heights, a game that has spurred a religion in its own right. No prizes for the right guess!!! CRICKET !!!

Once an astute graduate of the game wrote, “By virtue of our nationality, all of us- you and me included- belong to this glorious religion called cricket. An anonymous traveler described cricket thus: A game played by 11 fools and watched by 11,000 fools!!! Not only is this far from truth but it is also statistically hopeless. For, other that 11 members of the fielding side, there are two batsmen in the middle. Add a by runner and the number is already 14 and with the likes of Bucknor and De Silva officiating on the ground, you can rest assured that the number on the ground is a time varying factor. 11, 000 is also an inaccurate description. Well, there are a lot more than just 11,000 who watch the game. To dilute the game of such magnitude with fallacious thinking to such meaningless apocryphal figures is to proclaims one’s ignorance.”

Well, that’s one true devotee of the game.

The tennis ball cricket tourney also connoted “MUNDU MASTI” is played as the season starter where all the eager enthusiasts of the game give their loyalties to their respective classes. It is an event which is much awaited and one of the primary contenders to the throne of exhilaration.

So, get ready and let us wait for the greatness to unfold and watch as the “cricketers” parade into the ground and eye the crown. For after the tournament which is designed on a knockout basis, it is only one team that can claim sovereignty over the The Throne and lay their hands on the invisible “Chalice Of Cricketing Excellence” and go down the annals of Prasanthi History as the “Mundu Champions” of 2006.

So gear up, we are ready for lift off !!!