Talk:Dappa Kali

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After watching People are Knowledge, I'm confused about the different names given to the game Dappa Kali (as it's listed in Wikipedia). In the film, I noted in the subtitles that common names are: Kandakali, Dappa, and Chattiyeru/Chilleru. However, this article, which uses the video as its only reference, also uses the name Dappa Kali while omitting Kandakali.

My original interest in finding this article was to learn more about the tiles (pieces of tile) that are used in the game. Are they manufactured tiles or made by the children who use them? Does anybody have information to offer on this, please?

Thanks! Ashley Bodiguel (talk) 00:10, 4 October 2011 (UTC)


 * These are not manufactured tiles. They are all made by the children. In central Kerala, during my childhood, we used to make it with clay. Often, the tiles used as roofing were broken into smaller pieces to make these. --Sreejith K (talk) 08:17, 4 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Thank you, Sreejith K. When you made them with clay was it wet and you shaped them? By "manufactured", I mean processed materials as opposed to raw clay that is sculpted. In the film, there was a comment that only "natural" materials were used (7:50); if that's accurate, it would be an interesting addition to the article. I suppose it's also about agreeing on what "natural" means? --Ashley Bodiguel (talk) 11:31, 4 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Children do not take the pain of making them with clay. They usually take existing baked tiles (used for roofing in Kerala), break them into pieces and make circular pieces by rubbing it on hard surfaces like concrete. Children also use broken pieces of asbestos tiles. By natural, probably it means that these are things found commonly anywhere and not something they buy. But that's just a guess. --Sreejith K (talk) 13:16, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
 * We used pieces of broken earthenware since it was thin and not as hard as the roofing tiles.--Arayilpdas (talk) 14:08, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

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