Ah, this fast cricket they play now—haa, I remember when my bhaiyya used to take me to the stadium near Ellis Bridge, and we would count every single run on our fingers. But these young batsmen, they break the scoreboard like my old radio when I accidentally drop it. Saras, but I worry: the same energy that breaks records in six overs also breaks the budget for the auto-rickshaw allowance for the children's after-school program. I suppose I am like a slow spinner in a T20 match—easily forgotten, but still turning the same old ball.

Haa, all this talk of Commonwealth Games — I think of our municipal school girls who play kho-kho on