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...most Calcuttans, the past is good enough. Mohun Bagan Athletic Club, the oldest Asian sporting club in existence, was founded in 1889 by a group of upstanding middle-class Bengalis keen to prove their mettle against the British. They named it after one of the many Victorian villas in the densely colonial north of the city where most well-to-do Bengalis lived. From its founding, the club was consciously modern and nationalistic, eager to cast off the much-invoked colonial stereotype of the effeminate Oriental. Drinking and smoking were strictly forbidden, and young athletes, some scouted from remote villages...
...conflicts of partition. The well-heeled Calcuttans who ran Mohun Bagan often discriminated against athletes from the eastern parts of Bengal, whose accents, culinary tastes and even modes of dress differed. A contingent of eastern officials and players broke away from Mohun Bagan and set up the East Bengal club in 1920. The rivalry was ramped up after 1947, when the departing British divided Bengal along religious lines, its east becoming East Pakistan. Millions of Hindu refugees fled west to Kolkata. With livelihoods and loved ones lost, many had to struggle for their place among the city's better-established...
...television crept in during the 1980s and Indians were exposed to the wider, far superior world of sports. "The knowledge seeped in that we weren't very good," says Bhimani. The militant sense of east-west ethnic pride faded with the partition generation and today support for the two clubs has to do less with regional identity and more with plain club loyalty. Imported Brazilian and Nigerian players now star for both sides and routinely swap teams. The bulk of the upper and middle classes who once passionately cared about Kolkata football sit at home with Arsenal, Manchester United...
...public house spaces available for socializing? Who doesn’t want to spend their weekends downing forties in the senior common room? Answer: no one. And Pilbeam hits the nail square on it head: underage drinking will be rendered IMPOSSIBLE with the introduction of BAT teams to Stein Clubs. Would you like some cheese with that grape juice, Quincy sophomore? I left Dean Pilbeam’s second point until the end because it is the strongest, truest thing I have ever read: “it is quite apparent that the UC Party Grant program, in practice...
...Yeah, but when I did it, it kicked ass. We got so blitzed that first night, it was awesome! Plus, when I was punching, all the dudes in the club were really cool. Now?...