IIT Kanpur assistant professor Adhip Agarwala explains the physics of friction, its effects on various aspects of daily life in India, and how it can be reduced or eliminated.

Carrom boards with 32-inches in size are considered full-sized. These full-size carrom boards are typically designed using top-notch wood, which ensures their sturdiness and durable nature.

Carrom is also cited as a precursor to the Canadian game crokinole, which similarly requires players to aim and shoot disks across a typically wooden board.

With historical roots in India, carrom is today played in living rooms, public spaces, clubs, cafes, game halls of school and colleges, and recreation rooms of hotels and offices across 75 countries.

A month later when they returned to England they landed at Heathrow carrying, much to their mother’s horror, a carrom board.

A 38-year-old woman was arrested for causing the death of a 4-year-old boy, who she was babysitting, after he damaged a carrom board at her house in DLF Colony in Sahibabad last week. After carrom ...

Artisans in Sialkot, Pakistan, carefully craft boards for the game carrom. Similar to billiards, the game has millions of fans across South Asia.

Carrom is a hugely popular board game played in South Asia. The 23-year-old was born without arms, but he says his father never let him feel he was different from other children.

The price of a chessboard ranges between `180 to `2,200, a carrom board `600 to `12,000, badminton rackets `400 to `32,000 and dumb bells `150 (steel) to `250 (vinyl) per kg.

As in carrom, many powders are sprinkled on the board to decrease friction and speed up the game. This is also facilitated by the sweat continuously dripping from the vest-clad players on the board.