With Sikar as his starting point, Ramkumar, one of India’s best known shooters who hails from Kota, and is now the Indian Railways Coach, has taken it upon himself to go across the country scouting for the big boys.

What Ramkumar has done through his champion Railways squad is to: hunt down talent from India’s remote interiors, polish their skills, and throw them into the exhibition ring, where the city-spectator will judge them on their talent. These skills, draped into smart, bright vests and expressing themselves with impressive jumpers on court, are honed in corners as far as Bhavnagar (Harpal Singh), Varanasi (Vishesh Bhriguvanshi), Amritsar (Yadwinder Singh) and Indore (Prakash Mishra). The little-known Kakoli village in Haryana with its above-average heights is the latest on his radar now.