Reminiscence of a day at the cricket ground

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We'd all gone to the ground to cheer our college team, the captain of which was our classmate. After the game (which we won), a 3-year old kid joined us playing on the sidelines. After playing [around] with him (or was it the opposite) for sometime, we decided to ask him his name. Someone asked in English, and another told the former that the kid wouldn't understand and repeated in Kannada, before which the boy had already answered - "Raja". Even to the question in Kannada, the boy gave his name, which led us to probe which languages the boy knew. Each one of us began asking him his name in any language we knew - Tamil, Telugu, Tulu, Malayalam, etc. and each time the boy replied correctly. Just when we were getting to be in awe of his linguistic talents, one of us managed to ask him in Kannada what his mother-tongue was. Pat came the reply - "Raja".