Making room for squash in a sleepy village
Mumbai, May 29 -- The blaze from the unforgiving afternoon sun bounces off the slick glass squash court, where a bunch of children are walking barefoot, their shoes in their hands. A low, thin wall sits between the modern court - the kind erected in a posh Mumbai club for an international tournament - and a row of concrete houses only recently upgraded from their kutcha status. A group of girls stands under the shade for a mid-day catch up.
Bijali Darwada joins them. The 25-year-old has spent a large part of her teenage years across that little wall, hoping to become a national level squash player. Last year, she flew to Sri Lanka for an international tournament. The day after her return, as former squash pro Ritwik Bhattacharya vividly rem...
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