Travelogue of an Itinerant Mind

My first memory of cricket is from an era when every moving thing on a cricket field were in white and chased a dark dot in a rectangular area. At that time I didn’t under stand why the dark dot or the players never came out of the rectangular box. That was the time when I used to go with my father to a neighbors home to watch cricket on TV. The ball was not of the color red because the television those days did not know any color other than black and white. The neighbors’ television happened to be the only one in the village and was my first window to the world outside. It was the medium through which I was introduced to Hanuman’s super power, Arjun’s skill with the bow and an arrow, Amitabh Bacchhan and the film "Sholay". Those days newspapers were for the elite and a transistor radio was a prized possession.I was young and my world was a lot smaller. After watching cricket, and without understanding what 22 people are doing, I used to come back home spread the mat I use...