I’m currently mid-flight on my way home to Pune from Delhi – the final leg of a weeklong trip East to Malaysia and China. While I am thoroughly exhausted from 6 days of meetings, speaking engagements, red-eye flights and yesterday’s strenuous trek up a part of the Great Wall of China, somehow I still feel …
Those of you that have been reading this blog for the past few years would know that every once in awhile I veer slightly away from pure sport to share some insights and learnings from my spiritual practice. My practice currently involves (almost) daily meditation, attending spiritual retreats from time to time and reading texts …
My first season as CEO of a professional football club is in the books. It ended on a somewhat somber note as we gave up a 3-0 halftime lead to draw with Minerva Punjab 4-4, in a match where our opponents literally scored in the last second of the game. While I was disappointed that …
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The typical first response my wife gets when she asks some of her parents friends what they think of me is, “He’s such a sweet guy.” It’s not always my favourite (or the coolest) answer however it is much better than many other words that could have been used to describe their first impression of …
The UBA stands for United Basketball Alliance and it’s a property created by a few sports-loving Americans with the objective of developing and promoting the sport of basketball in India. It launched back in 2015 and, to be honest, I’ve not followed the league too closely during its previous four short format seasons. That’s all …
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One of my new years resolutions was that I would teach more in 2017. Educating young people is just something that I know in my heart will play a major part of the latter years of my life and I figured that it’s never too early to start. I’ve been working in sports for nearly …
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I was down in Mumbai over the weekend to attend the Football Movement conference hosted by India on Track, the UK Department of International Trade and the Premier League. A lot of positive conversations with a number of people in the industry however I won’t go into any details about that as none of it …
My California based parents were in Pune last month to visit / check up on Avantika and I. During their stay, my in-laws flew in from Delhi to surprise them which kick-started an extraordinary family weekend. One of the highlights of the weekend was going to Aufsides Sports Bar where we were hosting a DSK …
I’m going to slightly move away from my typical blog posting strategy of writing about some sports experience I’ve recently had followed by a slew of pictures in an attempt to document my sporting adventures and sporting EQ while showcasing how cool my life is to the readers of this blog. I’ve been reading this …
This past week was full of a few extraordinary firsts for me, ones that I will cherish for the rest of my life…. First #1 – Attended my First FC Goa Match My dear friend, Sukhvinder Singh, has been CEO of the Indian Super League club, FC Goa, for a little over a year now …
