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A few months ago, Telangana teenager Ambati Prudhvishwar Reddy made the news in Indian basketball circles, when his pathbreaking move to the Europe Basketball Academy (EBA) in Barcelona, Spain came to light. Reddy hopes to graduate from the Academy to become one of the first Indian players in the Euro League. With limited professional opportunities at […]

Harsimran Kaur Dhami, playing for San Diego University, achieved this feat in a home game against Nebraska on 27th November 2021. https://www.instagram.com/p/CYI6DvgpHuk/ The San Diego University website lists Harsimran’s first scoring game as against Washington on 12th November. But Harsimran has clarified to Ekalavyas that it was in the game against Nebraska a couple of weeks […]

–Becomes the first player of Indian descent to be on a team’s regular season roster– SACRAMENTO, CA —- The Sacramento Kings announced today that the team has signed SimBhullar to a 10-day contract, according to Kings General Manager Pete D’Alessandro. Bhullar becomes the first player of Indian descent to be on an NBA team’s regular […]

This feature was originally published in Tadpoles magazine on 18th August 2014 and can be accessed here. You can find them everywhere. In Canada, Great Britain, Australia and the Americas. For various reasons, Indians migrate to other countries: to join relatives, higher education, better employment opportunities or in the case of inter-racial couples. These families grow […]

In this second of our 4 part exclusive, Sacramento Kings’s Big Man DeMarcus Cousins, after discussing his growing up years in part I, Cousins reveals the secret behind his nicknames ‘Boogie’ and ‘DMC’, the perks of playing with future NBA picks John Wall and Eric Bledsoe at the University of Kentucky. We also question him about […]