Bridge is fun when played in the social circles but at the top competitive level when the stakes are as high as earning the right to represent your country in international challenges, it can be a game of great stress and mental fatigue, which can drain out the most alert players of outstanding caliber as was the case in our classic illustration for today wherein two of America's leading experts were sitting east fighting for a place to represent the US at the 1972 World Bridge Olympiad.

Rashid Ahmad Siddiqi's essays and writings in Urdu attracted attention when he was Editor of the Aligarh Magazine and a post-graduate student. He also used to write in English under the pen-name of 'Bohemian'. His early efforts such as Gil Manzil (House of Clay). Mee Guzrad (things go on) and Arhar Ka Khet were greatly appreciated by writers like Sajjad Ansari, Azmatullah Khan and Sajjad Haider.

Stylist, humourist and sketch - writer of rare distinction, Professor Rashid Ahmad Siddiqi (1892-1977) was one of the early luminaries (his close and intimate friend, Dr Zakir Hussain being another) of the celebrated M.A.O. College, Aligarh, and was dedicated, heart and soul, to this premier institution of the Muslims of India that later on grew into and flourished as a prestigious seat of learning and culture.