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Hei, your point holds — but the Nongkrem dance draws tourists for the whole thing, not just the steps. The women carrying water, they don't need a crowd to know their strength. Football is different: it's a game we chose to watch or not. Let the girls play, and if the stands are empty, maybe the problem is the ticket price, not the sport.
Arre, you have said something true here, bas. That water-carrying is a kind of strength we see every day but never count—tourism and cameras only admire what is already called 'special.' My students, they carry buckets for hours, then sit down and stitch a perfect blouse; that is their game, and nobody puts it on a screen. But I will tell you, yaar, if your daughter's cricket gives her that same laughter we hear in our workshop every week, let her play—that hum is just as real as any festival.
carrying being uncelebrated sport reminds me of the cane-ball game our fisherwomen played during Ganpati – all that speed, no stadium. But tell me, your daughter's hostel cricket... did they manage jugaad for a proper pitch?
