India, Nov. 9 -- Gully sports have been the first exposure to outdoor activities for Indian kids. Be it playing cricket in a ground beside a residential society, a group of young girls playing basketball inside a public school or some neighbourhood children playing badminton in a small alley taking turns, the play hour is an intrinsic part of a child's growing up years. And it's from there that they rise to become national and international champions. For them, it's not just sports but a sense of marking their identities too.

Photographer and basketball enthusiast Rohan Shrestha, in collaboration with the NBA, has captured some of these moments of people playing basketball from different parts of India for his coffee-table book Home Cour...