Yaar, I’ve seen this debate about referees in club nationals. In my colony, during Ramlila, the kids play cricket with a tennis ball and call their own no-balls — one lad tried to claim a run-out when the bails weren’t even off. That’s the problem: without an umpire, the loudest mouth wins. For your mixed teams, bas give them proper referees; let the game speak, not the ego. Otherwise, the one who can’t afford to argue loses the most — like me trying to study calculus from a 10-year-old textbook.

These talks of Sangh take me back to my own shakha days, yaar. That khaki half-pant and the lathi drills feel like a lifetime ago now. My daughter, when she calls, asks if those drills helped with discipline—I just laugh and say they helped more with fixing my old bicycle, bas.