Life comes to a standstill every evening in Marottichal, a sleepy hamlet in Kerala, as people converge around black and white boards. Hushed discussions and sudden cries of “checkmate!” ring the air—at tea stalls, lanes and corners of this high-range village.
For the country’s first chess-literate village, the game is life.
Villagers prescribe the game to checkmate present-day maladies in the society. They vouch that besides honing brain, it helps plan and execute things with more patience and discipline.
May be people elsewhere take a cue and do something like this in their own surrounding - in a village, a town or even in a city.
Read this interesting report by Ramesh Babu in Hindustan Times......
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Hindustan Times
