Country Games in Bangladesh

Country Games in Bangladesh

There are many games in Bangladesh. Some of which are known as country games or village games. Some of these are ha-du-du. Dariabadha  and kanamachi bho-bho. Ha-du-du is played between two teams. Each team consisting of equal number of players (uaually 6 to 12)  the play ground ha-du-du is divided into two halves and the two teams take their position in their individual half. A player from one team enters the opposite half to touch the opponent players. During this time he holds up his breath. If he can touch someone and can return to his own half without being caught, the touched player/ players are termed as dead and are out.

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Thus competition goes on between the two teams. If one team loses all players the other team wins. The game is full of excitement and fun. In dariabadha individual performance of the players is considered. A player needs to struggle hard to cross certain route without being touched by other player who guard it. In kanamachi bho bho one player is made kanamachi by lottery. she/he is made blind with a rope tied over his/her. If the kanamachi can successfully touch someone, the touched player is then made kanamachi. Thus the game is played with a lot of fun and excitement. Although many country games are now going to be lost because of rapid urbanization, we should remember that our country games bear our cultural identity.

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Importance of games and sports

Importance of games and sports

 Games and sports

There are many positive sides of sports. Sports provide us entertainment. Sports are a good medium for taking physical exercise. Some outdoor sports like football, cricket, hockey, and tennis are very popular. These sports are organized internationally time to time. Multinational companies sponsor these sporting events in exchange for the right to advertise their priducts. 

When these events are telecast worldwide by satellite, their products get the maximum media coverage. This is one of commercial aspects of international sports. There are other aspects too. International sports contribute towards strengthening universal brotherhood. In such events the sports venue becomes a meeting place of people from different.

 games and sports   

Countries By coming closer to each other, they share views and opinions. This breaks down the prehudice,broadens our outlook and creates a sense of brotherhood. Sports, thus, contribute a lot in enhancing global peace and promoting universal brotherhood. I am very fond of sports. I take part in sports whenever I have some leisure time.

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Games and Sports

Games and sports appear to be universal features of human culture, both past and present. Archaeological investigations have uncovered numerous artifacts from game play in sites around the world. These include implements related to games of physical skill, such as balls and hoops, game boards, board game pieces, and playing cards for games of strategy, and dice, used in games of chance. Boards and pieces for games similar to draughts (checkers in North American English) have been found in the ancient city of Ur in modern day Iraq dating to approximately 3,000 BCE (Oxland 2004) and in Egypt dating to as early as 600 BCE (Masters 1997). Early athletic games, or sports, are well known from archaeological and narrative sources. A variety of art forms, including painting and sculpture, from around the world commonly depict play in games and sports. The Greek historian Herodotus (5th century BCE) described games and other pastimes in Egypt and Lydia (western present-day Turkey) while the Roman historian Tacitus (55-120 CE) described dice games among Germanic tribes. The remains of the ancient Greek Olympic games, often dated to 776 BCE, are well known and include both the site where games were held but also implements, such as javelins and discuses. In ancient Rome, a variety of sports, some transformed from Greek predecessors, were held, initially in gymnasia and palaestrae and later in large stadia, such as the Circus Maximus, and amphitheaters, such as the Colosseum. Popular sports included chariot racing, held in the Circus Maximus, and gladiatorial combats held in the Colosseum.

The Mesoamerican ballgame  known as öllamalitzli in Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs, is one of the best-known team games of physical skill from the ancient world. It is depicted in frescoes, stone carvings, on painted pottery, and by clay figurines of players found in numerous sites in Mexico and Central America. The oldest of these, at Paso de la Armada, in the western Mexican state of Chiapas, dates to approximately 1400 BCE. Game play often had important symbolic or ritual (sometimes involving human sacrifice) aspects as well as more practical purposes, including dispute resolution, status acquisition, and as a vehicle for gambling. But it was also played purely for recreation and possibly even by women (Whittington 2001). While the exact rules for the game are unknown, a modern version, known as ulama is still played in northwestern Mexico, primarily in the states of Sinaloa, Sonora, and Durango (Fox 2012).

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