[1][2] Competitions are held for major Punjabi rural sports, include cart-race, athletic events and rope pulling.
They come to Qila Raipur to see the special breed of bullocks, camels, dogs, mules and other animals competing in competitive events.
In the year of the Olympics 2008, Hakam and Naib Singh Nagrath from village Kalsian, Punjab won the 1st prize.
[3][4] In 2014, the supreme court of Indian banned the Bull racing event after the complains of animal cruelty.
[6] In villages which formed the first habitation of civilised man rural sports grew out of sheer necessity.
The need for cultivating individual strength for labour on the fields, the interdependence within the community and need of defence, joint defence against onslaughts of a common foe and dangerous animals must have given birth to sports like wrestling, running, jumping, weightlifting and such performing arts as of measuring strength by holding wrists, twisting hands.
In order to toughen the frames and steel the minds of his followers Guru Hargobindji had started the tradition of holding wrestling bouts within the precincts of Akal Takht Sahib and it is mostly because of the fillip that he gave and the seal of ethics that he put on them that sports become a proud facet of life in Punjab.
On the common grounds of villages, in the fairs, during the festivals, at the hermitages of pirs, graves of preceptors, wrestling became a part of high recreation.
Villages adopt and feed wrestlers and also give prizes to them as a matter of honour in Punjab today.
The rustic "Khido Khoondi" (literally a ball made out of cuttings of cloth and a stick twisted at the end like a flat hockey blade) was replaced by proper hockey and players from villages, having no facilities beyond uneven grounds to play began to dominate in the game.
Twelve of our country's greatest hockey players have come out of a single village called Sansapur in Jalandhar District.
Twenty years ago, for instance, their number was limited to Now sports meets are held almost in every significant village in Punjab.
Following the Qila Raipur Rural Sports meet the Kalgidhar Tournament of Kamalpur has also completed half-a-century.
Music contest that was held between Karamjit Dhuri and Jagmohan Kaur at Qila Raipur is still fondly remembered.
Villagers are not just fond of their own competitions they also like to size-up the skill and power of their animals like bulls, horses, dogs on the sports ground.
Tirinjen is a kind of social club, which can be organized in any home, where place for spinning wheels and the girls is available for a day/night.
The girls would sing and dance, would express their sorrow and happiness, pangs of separation and joy of meeting.
The spinning wheel plays a significant role in the life of the women, as a companion, counselor in distress, friend and guide.
An example of a song sung by a married girl during Tirinjen: ਚਰਖਾ ਮੇਰਾ ਰੰਗਲਾ , ਵਿੱਚ ਸੋਨੇ ਦੀਆਂ ਮੇਖਾਂ। ਵੇ ਮੈਂ ਤੈਨੂੰ ਯਾਦ ਕਰਾਂ, ਜਦ ਚਰਖੇ ਵੱਲ ਵੇਖਾਂ । (Charkha mera rangla, vich sone dian mekhan, Ni mai tenu yaad karan, jad charkhe wal vekhan.)
ਹਰ ਚਰਖੇ ਦੇ ਗੇੜੇ, ਯਾਦ ਆਵੇਂ ਤੂੰ ਮਿੱਤਰਾ। (Har charkhe de gere Yad awen toon mitra) Each circle of the wheel, Brings your sweet memories to my mind , 0 my beloved.
This is a period when rainy season is at its best, having said good bye to the scorching heat, people are out to enjoy the rains.
The peacock dances gleefully Filling the garden with its crowings These wretched blossoming flowers Remind us of our Beloved.
Kikli kleer di, Pag mere vir de, Daupatta mere bhai da Phitte mun jawai da Some pebbles, stones or broken earthenware could be broken further into pieces and used for playing Gheeta Pather.
Gilli-danda Guli Danda is an amateur sport, popular among rural youth in the Indian subcontinent.
It is called dÄnggűli in Bangla, chinni-dandu in Kannada, kuttiyum kolum in Malayalam, viti-dandu in Marathi, kitti-pullu in Tamil, gooti-billa in Telugu, and Lappa-Duggi in Pashto.
It is widely played in Punjab and rural areas of the North-West Frontier Province and Sindh (Pakistan) and Sultanpur district, Uttar Pradesh (north India).
For this purpose, a circle is drawn in the ground in which a small, oblong- or spindle-shaped hole is dug (the overall shape looks like a traditional boat).
The Pakistani Champions were: Noor Khan, Abdul Hameed Qureshi, Nadeem Jameel, Iftikhar Hashmi, and Qaseem Siddiqui.
The Indian Champions: Deepali Gode from Kalyan, Varun, Ajay Kaushik, Rohit Mishra (allahabad)(engineer from IT BHU), Vijay Choudhary of Darbhanga, Vivek Baranwal of Varanasi, Upender Kumar, Satyendra Tripathi, and Sandeep Prakash and Pradeep Kumar yYdav of Lucknow Sudhanshu Yadav from Jaipur As an amateur youth sport, gilli-danda has many variations.
In Italy a similar game known as "Lippa", "Lipe", "Tirolo", or "S-cianco" is shown in the movie Watch Out We Are Mad.