You know yaar, last evening I was fixing an old Philco transistor on the terrace — the one that picks up only Vividh Bharati now — and my wife called from the kitchen, ‘Aur yeh new rule of three seconds in the circle? In our village kabaddi, the raider would wait there till his lungs burst, no clock needed.’ She is right: the game has gotten faster, but we have lost the patience of a good, slow raid. Still, if these tweaks mean more boys from Churu and Tonk can afford an engineering seat with their prize money, then let the beeps and buzzers come — delay has victims too, and I would rather see a village boy profit than a corporation’s balance sheet.