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This post was originally published on tadpoles.in on June 9, 2014, and can be accessed here. “Hey, well played man”, said Coach Lebron James, simultaneously high fiving one of his players, a young 5ft 9 inch 23-year-old man from Tamil Nadu by the name of Akilan P. The occasion was the 2013 All Star Weekend in […]

Basketball training in India is hard for more reasons than one. An explosive sport, basketball is inherently demanding on the body. With 10 players cramped in limited space, there’s constant back and forth with zero rest. Beyond the head to toe movements, the sport is also mentally taxing: a constant switching of mindset from aggression […]

During my school-years in Mussoorie, there was a man who had set up a little fortune-telling business near the hill-station’s Jhula Ghar. Every day, he would lay out a carpet on the side of the street and sit behind it, waiting for gullible and interested tourists. On the carpet in front of him were dozens […]

I watched Bollywood hit ‘Half Girlfriend’ so you won’t have to Warning: Spoilers ahead. Less than half an hour into the Mohit Suri directed film Half Girlfriend – based on popular novel by Chetan Bhagat – the two lead characters Madhav Jha (Arjun Kapoor) and Riya Somani (Shraddha Kapoor) take on the court in a […]

CLEVELAND: No panic, no playing around. Just California cool. The Golden State Warriors simply did what they had to do, and now they’re going home in the same shape as when they left – tied in the NBA Finals. Stephen Curry and Andre Iguodala scored 22 points apiece and the Warriors, showing their depth and […]