gilli-danda

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   A game played in several Asian countries, in which a large stick is used to hit a small…

   A game played in several Asian countries, in which a large stick is used to hit a small oval-shaped piece of wood. It is played much like tipcat, baseball, and cricket.

   • 1970, Instructor, Volume 80, Instructor Publications It is played by children of all ages. Boys like it especially, but it is not unusual to see girls and even adults playing Gilli Danda!
   • Bhuvan the hero of the film to understand 'cricket', relates it to his understanding of their native folk game of Gilli Danda. He says: ball (image of the silli thing) is gola-gola-ball, bat-phalli-phalli-bat.
   • The indigenous games like gilli-danda, goli, kabaddi, tash, kabootar urana (pigeon flying), erhi koodna (long jump), surra, cheel jhapatna, tahat etc., were commonly played by both children and adults of the village[...]

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