Samuel is just going to love this!!

In the 50's, when we lived in Bangalore, we had the international wrestlers who used to come there. The show was held in the Sampagie Stadium, quite close to where we lived on Lalbagh Road, near Richmond Circle.

As Appachen, my father, was in charge of providing safe lighting for the stadium, we used to get free tickets to see these heroes.

Dara Singh, King Kong, Flash Gordon, The Masked Angel, are some of the names that I remember. Dara Singh was the good guy while King Kong was the evil guy. The drop kick, the scissor grip, and a whole lot of wrestling manoeuvres that we all became familar with due to these great entertaining evening sessions. It was great fun, much better than watching stuff of TV.

We followed the stories of these wrestlers and how they consumed 50 chickens for a meal or 100 eggs in a gulp.

I have, during the last year been sharing these stories, on a first person basis with grandson, Samuel. Samuel would insist for more and more - and it was difficult to get all those fabulous evenings out of my memory into words. But I certainly did.

In the light of that, I think that this cartoon will have Samuel, and hopefully you, greatly amused!