In rural households across Karnataka our team of researchers found innumerable game boards tucked away in attics, lofts and lying amidst rarely used utensils. When we generally enquired if any person knows how to play, it always turned out that an elderly woman in the household had played the game long ago as an young bride and later on the boards sat abandoned in the dusty corners of the house.

Traditional Board Games Of India, or http://kreedaakaushalya.blogspot.com, is a very interesting blog devoted to, yes, traditional board games of India. No, the blog doesn’t focus only on the games- the contributors (Raghu and RG) also seem interested in covering other aspects of the villages they visit in their journeys of discovery. Like traditional architecture, temples etc., Most of the posts are very readable and are interspersed with wonderful pictures.

In this post, RG finds out how life imitates art: the photograph they’d taken of an old woman teaching Aligulimane to young children in a village they’d visited seems to bear a strong resemblance to the scene depicted in a painting by G.L.N. Simha!