English: Karbi-language speaker D.S. Teron from Assam, India shares about the games he and his friends played as kids in the sixties.

In this interview, D.S. Teron goes into details about his childhood and the society was back them. This portion of the full interview gives an account how the Karbi people lived in the 1960s. He then shares about two traditional games—one involving walking with stilts to avoid thorns to pierce one's feet while walking on the swampy soil in naked feet, and a game called "Hambi" (meaning nickernut or nicker bean; IPA: /haːmbi/) which involved the locally-grown nickernut. The nickernut was played between two opponent teams (each team will have equal number of players with a minimum of two players). The opponent teams will keep about five meters of distance from each other. There are different stages and each stage has a name. Part of the game is also to tease the opponents.

This interview was recorded remotely on May 21, 2017 at 9:43 AM (IST, UTC+5:30) with prior permission from the interviewee.

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