Treating Old Wounds through Movies.... 4 decades of trauma, and the movie " 83 " This is not a movie review. This is not a cricket story. I am about as turned off by both Bollywood and cricket (or Bolly-ket) as an average Indian is turned on by them. This is slightly autobiographical, with a hint of Bollywood and an aftertaste of cricket. Let me clarify, I do not intend to make light of people who have suffered real trauma. My trauma was a different kind, losing nothing but a potential fan of Indian cricket. The story starts with my Dad. He was a keen follower of every sport under the sun. Had played cricket at the university level, too. I don't recall him watching chess or golf, but every other sport would see him glued to the TV (or the radio, before we got the telly). I recall him twiddling the knobs on the big Philips valve radio, to get a faint BBC commentary of an Ashes match. Or a county match, for that matter. And somehow that old set came alive to catch Grand Sl
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