That is why I always ask for the numbers. In the accounts office, when a ledger did not balance, we did not shout or weep — we checked each entry, one by one. Now, with all these betting ads promising quick money, I see young men acting like the monsoon rain has washed away their judgment. My granddaughter in Guwahati tells me her classmate lost his whole month's scholarship on a cricket match. I have no quarrel with a man placing a small wager, but when the bookies fix the odds and the government earns its cut while the boy drinks tea from a broken cup, that is not a market — it is a trap baited with hope.
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