Saturday 16 July 2016

Feb 2016 - Catch!

Vasant Kunj Mall


Participants:  Manishikha, Parul, Abhilash, Mallika, Mohit    
Observers : Mallika and Manishikha

A quieter mall with a lot of people just hanging around. Less crowded as well. We started playing and soon people got curious. As curiousity grew, the anxiety of the guards grew as well and as usually does happen in malls, we were asked to stop and taken to speak to the security head. They had a problem with the ball... what ball? we asked! After convincing them of the 'harmlessness' of what we were doing, we carried on. It was a high energy game... the ball went afar many a times... we ran around a lot to catch it... after a burst of 45 minutes, we stopped and had ice cream at Gianis. The same questions surface again and again... why do you do this? What for? For whom? People play but I [Mallika] wonder if they hold on to anything afterwards... I wondered if we needed to get those small chits of paper with the blog address etc like we had spoken of once...
I felt like we can keep doing this. In new places. Between new people. But perhaps we need to revisit or perhaps we need to define or redefine what we want out of this... in as gentle a way as possible.

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