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After a decade long international playing career, ex-India men’s basketball captain CV Sunny continues to dream big for the future of hoops in the country. His 5ft 9 inch frame doesn’t tell us the full story, or maybe it does. A lifetime of overcoming the odds, CV Sunny was a former Indian national men’s basketball […]

  When you think about India’s performance in the Olympic Games, you would imagine our shooters, weightlifters and wrestlers. Apart from the few medals that Indians have won in these categories, India has had little success at the Olympic stage in the recent past. Barring our dominance over the rest of the world in hockey, […]

Indian player shooting a jumper in a match at the 1980 Olympic Games. Image courtesy: Olympian Amarnath Nagarajan. The photographs of the past – black-and-white, sepia, unfocused, and unclear – tell stories of a million words. Brown-skinned players in tight basketball vests, some wearing turbans, spread across a basketball court, playing with the words भारत […]

Ram Kumar is a former Indian basketball player and one of the most successful coaches in the country after retirement in 2003. The 2003 Dhyan Chand Awardee is the son of Khushi Ram, also a former Indian basketball player and an Arjuna Awardee. For those who haven’t heard about him, here’s a pretty descriptive Wikipedia article on him. Others in […]

It’s a familiar and depressing story; talent falling by the wayside because the youngster had no interest in cricket. But that picture may be about to change in basketball as the pros come in.   (This feature was originally published as the cover story in the March ’14 issue of the FountainInk magazine. You can […]