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As the curtains came down on yet another successful title run for ONGC (men) and Southern Railway (women), spectators and followers alike will be left wondering: Are there any teams that can challenge the dominance of the oilers from Dehradun? Is there any combination of 12 women that can stop Southern Railway in their tracks? […]

With the new academic year for 2020-21 upon us, like last year, we can expect a slew of announcements around Indian basketball players abroad, committing to North American high schools and colleges as student-athletes. This is both a heartening as well as disconcerting sign. It shows that India’s upcoming basketball talent is on par with […]

Generally speaking, conducting sports events in college is an encouraging sign, especially considering our society’s obsession with academics over sports. However, for minor sports like basketball in India, sometimes, sports events themselves can cause more harm than good. It is a known fact that in our country, cricket is the one sport that is considered ‘King’, […]

The Supreme Court…. No it’s not in Delhi. It’s in every courtyard of every school of the country. Or at least that is what hoopsters in India would like you to believe.  For many of them, playing basketball is like being cast under a hypnotic spell from which there’s no escape. It’s wei wu wei of the […]

This feature was originally published in Tadpoles magazine and can be accessed here.  War and peace. Love and hate. Rich and poor. Yin-yang. Darkness and light. These supposed opposites or ‘koans’ as the Zen Buddhists would call it, have perplexed us for ages. If Gandhi were alive, he would have termed such metaphysical dilemmas, ‘as […]