For men and women, young and old, dudes and nerds and many others who wandered in, losing their way, the traditional board games mela, Kreedaa Kaushalya, ?going ?on at ?Ramsons Kala Pratishtana?s Pratima Gallery located above Aamarapali on the Nazarbad Main Road, was the classic ? welcome to my parlour, said the spider to the fly ? scenario since the lure of board games is as stickily adhesive as a spider?s web!
?Kreedaa Kaushalya? mela evidently awakened dormant memories as enthusiastic visitors eagerly took up the chance to try their hands ?and match their wits with others ?at impromptu games and many clutched a couple of board games to take home with them.
?Kreedaa Kaushalya has been going on since May 10 ?and will continue everyday from 10 am to 7 pm ?and ?conclude on May 26th , sevenish or thereabouts.
What?s so sticky about traditional board games?
?Its fun for the family, serves as a talking point, adds that touch of class to your living place.
Buy one of those huge multi-game boards inlaid on a rosewood coffee table with that dark sheen and place it in the centre of the living room. Next place the counters and pawns which are a sturdy six inch carved figurines of man and animal and you are all set to be one of the Mauryan or Pandyan or even Vijayanagar kings getting ready to play a board game with his favourite Queen or mistress!
Finally board games beat the hand held gizmo computer games any day.
No noisy, raucous sound effects of the gizmo games accompany a board game unless you mean the feral roar of the supporters of the loser.
Neither is there any danger of developing prehensile thumbs like our primate cousins, which are now proven occupational hazards of those obsessed with ?gizmos games.
The board gamesman develops the superior aura of a ?Samurai warrior while playing a game like Pachisi or Aadu-Huli aata ... a stoic exterior even if he thinks the dice are against him or that he has lost four goats in a row even as he ignores calls for instant beheading by the kith and kin on the sidelines - if the moves that you make are an insult to a child of six with water on the brain.
From the Japanese game of ?GO? which has all those samurai types with hair tied up like David Beckham or Tom Cruise in ?The Last Samurai? to the the variations of snakes and ladders played from Timbuctoo to Kandy, from Cote d?Azure to County Shropshire, from Mcleodgunj to Mysore,we, in India like to infuse it with some spirituality.
You do not get to levitate or become ?The Last Airbender? but the game of snakes and ladders or Gyan Chaubar as we call it ( there are other aliases too )is said to teach you the Goan attitude of Soccegado that is take the good with the bad, the ups ?with the downs till the time comes for you to cash in your chips!
That?s the philosophical idea behind the game and is meant to make you feel ?a guilty when you play the game just for fun!
What the heck! Just pull that paper on cloth snakes and ladders game board from under that pile. Set it up and Presto, the game gets underway!
?Enlightenment at the end of the game or the knowledge that enlightenment is at the end of the board! That?s the spirit!
Source: http://kreedaakaushalya.blogspot.com/2013/05/welcome-to-my-parlour-said-spider-to-fly.html
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