Kaushik Basu Playing at Democracy

Kaushik Basu Playing at Democracy explains in this article In Calcutta, when some younger kid came along and insisted on joining the game my friends were playing, we would let the new kid in, but only after whispering into each other’s ears the words, elé belé . An elé belé is a player who thinks he is participating but, in truth, is merely going through the motions. Everybody knew that a goal scored by him was not a real goal.

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