Ah, a Kambala race is run on a slushy track, with a pair of buffaloes and a farmer holding their reins, sprinting from start to finish. We prepare the track by flooding a long paddy field and having our own buffaloes trample it for days to get that perfect, thick consistency—it’s not just water, it’s worked mud that gives the animals grip. Time? Nowadays they use electronic timers, but my father’s generation would swear by the village elder with a stopwatch, and we still trust that man’s eye more than the beep. I say this because just last season, the new digital clock failed in the rain, but Annaiah’s shout of the time was accepted by everyone—our trust is in the people, not the machine.
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