The Great Indian Sport

One thing I forgot to mention that its exclusively played by women! So all you need to do is put all your aunts in the same room and get some popcorn or even better french fries :)

So the match opener is the aunt who has the loudest voice and can be heard across the mohalla. She starts her own saga of how her manni (bhabhi) is. Then the one other aunt tried to come in between with another gossip, which is supposed to be mushier. Then the loud aunt scans it in her mind and decides if she should continue on this topic or dash in another topic of discussion. Here somehow it was her interest so she adds her own masala. Then my sweet own granny (has to be the odd woman out :), as she praised her devrani of how sweet she is. This the loudspeaker could not digest and had to point all the devrani's bad qualities. And so continues the conversation.

I am so surprised on how female psyshe works. Some of these aunts cannot sleep peacefully without badmouthing other women in the family. For some women, its a weekend gossip compilation session. My mom got a call from one distant aunt (with her daughter in background) when we were going through a bad patch. This aunt wanted to know the details of what happened, and how it happened and what was the outcome, and what would be its future effects... phew! I was imagining the daughter compiling a research report and publishing it in the family SharePoint!!!

Now with relatives like these, who needs enemies................