Top.

Remember, a top?

The other day I saw kids from a nearby slum playing outside my building, with a top. While the taller and evidently older one skillfully released the strung top with a graceful jerk of the hand, the smaller kids stood bewildered staring at it as it twirled at top speed and eventually came to the much-dreaded sideways tilted halt.

It took me back years, when my mom used to show me how to use it, followed by my failed attempts to do the same. I still can't manage it.

But, do today's kids even know what a top is? In this world of digital entertainment, and "fashionable" games, does any middle-and-upper class kid feel fascinated by that amazing piece of gravity-play?