Taking a stroll down memory lane; My Experiments in Physical Training
Everyone has an Achilles heel. Mine happens to be the incapacity for “acute physical activity”. Right from my school days, I have not been too active in sports. Of course, I used to participate in sports activities like long jump, high jump and football but was never too good at any of these. During the school days, I was also a Boy Scout, but the frequent wanderings in the hot sunlight always made me very dizzy and I never made it to the Jamborees. In the college, I enrolled the NCC. I wore ill-fitting dresses for the drills on holidays at the college compound, the main attraction being the snacks served at the end of the physical training. Usually, it used to be bananas. I always had dizziness while doing physical exercises and was never a regular cadet. I also played ball badminton and cricket at the college in an acceptable manner but, was not in the top league, to make it to the college team. Later, at the Cochin University, I captained our department in Cricket. But the practic