A rowing success

THE OARS churn the waters. The boatmen pour in all their energies into the paddles and move in a symphony. They heave, huff and puff. The muscles ache, but the boat moves ahead piercing the still waters of the lake.

The paddling is now at a frenzied pace and the boat gains momentum, like an arrow let out from a bow, and surges ahead. Canoes, kayaks, rafts and wheeler boats, there were all there lapping against the waters of the Hussainsagar lake. The odd scooter boat whizzed past with a roar.

This was the competition on - well, not the high seas - high waters with personnel of the Andhra Pradesh Special Police, EME Centre, and the young cadets from the National Cadet Corps putting their best arms forward and paddling away to victory.

A part of the 42nd Raising Day celebrations of the APSP, the competition was in various classes - kayaks, canoes, wheeler boats, rowing boats, laser, enterprise and so on. The colourful sails fluttered in the air and cast shadows in the dark waters even as the sun sank into those skyscrapers on the other end of the lake.

But, the holiday crowd had their monies' worth with their eyes able to behold not just the lake water and those fancy boats introduced by the Tourism Department, but a whole fleet of real boats and strong oarsmen who showed them what boating was all about. Sheer hard work and sheer pleasure too!

By K.V.S. Madhav

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