| Paper - plane mania | | | | at lest not too much. |
| Is keeping a hobby of some kind, an easy matter | | | | Once upon a time, ‘kite flying’ was considered a |
| these days? Surely not, in my opinion. Whenever I ask | | | | very cheap sport. In the present scenario, even that |
| an youngster, “What is your hobby?” he would | | | | has become quite dear. Next, it could be practiced only |
| tell me, “Reading newspapers, magazines, watching | | | | in the month of January in India; you don’t get a |
| t.v., football, cricket, kabadi etc. Quite a number, Sir. You | | | | good wind speed in other months. |
| name it, I have it.?” In my turn I ask, “My dear | | | | Some college boys in my city Chennai have come out |
| young man, everybody does that….” If I hadn’t | | | | with a far cheaper idea having consulted some videos |
| been interviewing him for a job, he would have cut me | | | | on the internet. It’s paper plane. Any old newspaper |
| short and fired back angrily, “If it is so, why the hell | | | | or possibly a page from a note book is enough. All you |
| do you ask?” | | | | are required to do is to fold the paper into an arrow |
| Many students out of college or school, don’t even | | | | shape model or fashion it like a glider-look- alike thing |
| know the meaning for ‘Hobby’. So, to expect | | | | and throw it in the air in a parabolic trajectory. |
| the right answer from them is asking for too much | | | | Three types of competitions will be organised - the |
| presumably. | | | | longest distance the model could fly before it touches |
| . | | | | the ground, the longest air time and different designs of |
| It is agreed that any hobby is expensive in India. Its | | | | the paper plane. Hundreds of student are registered |
| running cost cannot be met out of one’s pocket | | | | for this sport, or should I dare call it ‘hobby’? |
| money and the parents are not prepared to foot your | | | | The winner from Chennai will participate in the world |
| extra bill over and above the huge ‘education | | | | wide paper plane contest, due to be held in Austria |
| bill.’ | | | | sometime this year. |
| That being so, we have to accept that anything you | | | | Great, isn’t it? What used to be the pastime of |
| do other than the actions connected with your | | | | kindergarden children has become a world sport and a |
| ‘study’ and ‘work’ as hobby. I shall | | | | hobby at that. Henceforth, if anyone complains that |
| remember this rule when I take an interview next time | | | | ‘hobbies’ are beyond our pocket, perish the |
| or when I happen to talk to a college pass-out. | | | | thought. Who knows, in course of time this sport may |
| Young men and women nowadays take to all sorts of | | | | be accepted as an Olympic event as well. So, let all |
| sports over and above the usual games. The condition | | | | age groups try to become experts in this HOBBY. |
| is, “It must be cheap and not eat into your pocket, | | | | |