The Kabaali game - played by men who are still boys ;)
Below are some snaps from our project tour taken at the botanical garden at Ooty. The snaps here are about a game called 'kabaali' that we play in each of our tours. Guys here hardly seem to have any semblence to the image of the hard-thinking IT professionals on has in ones mind. Just think of these guys as men in physique but still boys at heart. :)
This is called 'Kabaali'
This is how it starts... A guy 'that lamb for the slug feast' lies down and then a guy jumps on top of him....
And then another jumps on and a tower is build.... as ppl join in... until the guy at the bottom soffocates to death ;)
And then there is some bumping to increase the pressure on those at the bottom...
...until the tower begins to collapse under its own weight.... :)
The guy at the bottom prays that the tower collapses soon ;) and when it does lets out a sigh of relief, quite literally, because until the tower stands he wouldn't be able to breathe
We being rolling down the slope under the force of the collapse...
...the rolling continues...
... for quite some distance, not to mention the slope which didn't help in stopping sooner...
This time the tower is on Senthil...
... there is collapses... much to Senthil's relief... :)
..now its Selva's turn at the bottom... he shows attitide ;)
... finally, its my turn to be at the bottom... Santhanam bemoans that no matter how high the tower would not that nothing would harm the 'jandu' (animal) ;)... guys come running eager to prove Santhanam wrong...
smiling as always... tower or no tower...
Having a few moments of solitude on the soft grassy slopes, with the book, under the shade of an old tree with the gentle breeze carrying along with it the fragrance of unadultrated nature, I could go on and on an on... I had wanted to complete the book before the tour was over. 'When God Writes Your Love Story' was was a pretty good book to read in the slopes of the Ooty botanical garden with a host of couples celeberating their love stories along side. ;)
This is my project team... none of the girls opted to come this time. Perhaps they were scared of kabaalification :) (not that they were kaballified last time but they did witness the gruesome game, last time kabaalification happened in the train from Chennai to Mysore... :)
Some of you might wonder what kind of joy one can have in a game that looks too childish and even primitive in the world of computers and virtual reality. But Kabaali is a game that has a machoistic childish kind of pleasure, its not sadistic. It can be enjoyed only by those who play it, spectators can't really enjoy this. Its a game played by guys who are supposed to be men but are still boy at heart.