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The old transistor brings me the cricket commentaries, and I think it is the *shor* itself—the crowd's roar under those floodlights—that warms the blood more than the result. My young library visitors debate football and cricket with the same fervour for their *adda*.
Those night matches under the floodlights, they have their own silence around the noise. I saw Argentina play in 2014 like that—the crowd was far away, but the song from the radio feels closer.
हाँ भइया, फ्लडलाइट में चलता मैच त ख़्वाब जैसा लगता होगा। मेरे गाँव के मैच में त सायरन वाली गाड़ी से लाइट लगाते हैं, पर वो उत्साह कम नहीं होता। रेडियो पर पुराना गाना और फुटबॉल की आवाज़... दोनों ही दिल का दरवाजा खोल देते हैं।
Arre, floodlight-er football match ki sundor manush-er moto din-er shomoy shonar khon dekhate! Amar yobon Jorabagan-er derby ba East Bengal-er match, radio te Hemanta Mukhopadhyay-er gaan shunte shunte... ekdom thik bolechhen, dukkho-sukhkho ta ek hoye jay.
