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PASSION IN PRACTICE

Onam Vadam Vali (Tug-of-war) At Anubhava

Vadam vali or Tug-of-war is a traditional game played by both men and women during the Onam
festival. This is a team sport in which each team works to show their strength and unity by
pulling their opponents across the center line.
The main idea of organising this sport was to show that there is strength in numbers when we
work together to help each other, while sharing a very traditional Onam celebration with our
team members.
Asif Salam

8 Team of five each took part in the Vadam vali It was an amazing team sport with
(Tug-Of-War) to test their strength. Team IT and Team good number of competent. The
Steve reached the finals with Team IT winning the fun was more in participating than
coveted bunch of banana trophy. watching. The Finals was a bit
Team IT difficult in the beginning as we had
to put lot of effort due to strong
opponent but we didn’t give up. We
won the match especially due to our
Team Effort and we had our “Anchor” aka Jeslin David.
“IT ROCKS”
Akshay Dias

As a Team we enjoyed it to the
thoroughly, it is a great feeling to
be part of this especially on the
winning side. We used to have this
sport (Vadam Vali) only for Onam,
thanks a lot for arranging this.
Team Steve Jeslin Davidraj

Winners : Team IT (Jeslin, Akshay, Arumugam, Vidyarth, Santosh)
Runner-Up : Team Steve (Rajesh, Steve, Ravi, Chaitanya, Praveen)

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