It’s Only a Game. Enjoy
-Tarun J Tejpal
•Tarun
Tejpal’s essay “It’s Only a Game. Enjoy” is
about cricket in particular but games in general
and his advice is that we should enjoy the game
and not take it as a substitute for a battle
between two countries.
The Game of cricket is first and foremost a
game.
 It cures no disease, adds nothing to human
knowledge and unearths no secrets of
existence.
 People like games because games are like a
morality play in which the setting, the rules,
the fair and foul conduct, reward and
punishment, feeling of excitement and
despair- all are decided by them.
 The game exists to take violence and
aggression out of us.

Indo-Pak cricket matches are in fact so
much overloaded with baggage that they
make it impossible for two countries to
play against each other.
 Cricket is, after all, only about knocking a
ball around.
 So we should let the game remain a game
and not make it matter of national
prestige, honour or shame.
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