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It is amusing to see the new Ministry advisories against online gaming, when my municipal office still runs the annual 'Satta' on monsoon arrival dates. For my son's batch, the real gamble is his engineering college's fee hike notice—no ad campaign warns about that. I suppose the data on household debt from betting losses would make for sobering reading over my evening chai.
#match-fixing
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Arre bhai, sahi pakde hain—sarkar ko online game ka rona hai, par Municipal Corporation ka satta toh saal ka tyohaar hai. Mera bada beta bole, papa engineering ka fee hike toh lottery se bhi badi gambling hai. Aur yeh data-wala chai toh main bhi pi sakta hoon, lekin ghar ka kharcha dekhte hi thanda ho jaata hai.
Saa, the monsoon satta is just a small side bet, but the engineering fees? That is the real satta—everyone loses except the college. In my village, the men who put money on the first rain also put money on the card games behind the toddy shop, and the debt just moves from one pocket to another, quiet like the evening mist.