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Sure, there’s some power to positive thinking. If you say something enough times, it can come true, or at least, you’d start to believe that it’s true. But until the day scientists refine our genes to give all of us psychokinetic powers, no amount of thinking or talking will equate to any physical results, till […]

An abridged version of this profile first appeared in the Tadpoles magazine. That post that be accessed here. “STAR OF THE DAY!” screamed the sports section of Times of India in an article dated January 28, 2014. The previous evening, India had played Angola in the basketball finals of the Lusofonia International Games in Goa. […]

The story of 60-year-old Subhash Mahajan and the Sampoorna School, where he passes on his lifelong passion for basketball in India to thousands of kids in rural Karnataka. Subhash Mahajan looks out of the first floor window of his two-storey bungalow on the outskirts of Bangalore. The sun has barely risen from behind the many […]

Going by his game, he could be from the Himalayas. There’s icewater in his veins. The occasion was the 5th FIBA Asia Cup. The venue was Wuhan Sports Centre. The opponents were the mighty Chinese. 61st ranked India had never beaten 12th ranked China in any part of the world, let alone in its very […]

I’m waiting for the day that this news isn’t a big deal. That a brown-skinned guy with South Asian features gets signed to an NBA team’s Summer League roster, and the rest of the brown-skinned, South Asian world doesn’t freak out about it. I’m waiting for the day when such an announcement is a regular […]