The Maverick Coach – Bishweshwar Nandi

Soumyadeep Paul | 21/08/2016
Dipa Karmakar

Struggles

maxresdefault (30)In a recent interview, the maverick coach Bishweshwar Nandi rued the fact that there was an inherent bias among sports in India. In a country where diversity is supposed to be celebrated, cricketers are treated as gods whereas sportsmen from lesser known disciplines end up in oblivion. With no proper training equipment available, Mr. Nandi set out himself in the journey to train Dipa into a world-class gymnast.

This involved building a springboard from the parts of a discarded scooter.  During the course of the training, he had to bear spiteful talks and insults from the society for training a girl in an unknown sport like gymnastics. He fought through all of this and strode ahead.

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I am Soumyadeep, a sportsman by birth and a MBA by choice. I love to play, watch, follow and analyze sports. Writing is another passion of mine and that is what excites me to be a part of The SportsRush. Please reach out to me for views, comments, bouquets and brickbats.

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