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Lassi with Lavina: Hoop Dreams
Lassi with Lavina: Hoop Dreams...
By Lavina Melwani for the April issue of The Indian Express, North American Edition There is a lot happening here in the Big Apple, and we don’t just mean the sad, bad news of the economic crisis. The Indian Express keeps an eye on all things that softly turned, while we rushed past, with this fortnightly column that carefully blends in the exclusive with the everyday. THE world — it’s a shrinking! Indeed, in this...
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PRESS RELEASE: Hoops India presents the first ever ‘Mumbai Basketball Field Day’ at The Dhirubhai Ambani International School on May 1st
PRESS RELEASE: Hoops India presents the first eve...
Hoops India presents the first ever ‘Mumbai Basketball Field Day’ at The Dhirubhai Ambani International School on May 1st New York-based Hoops India Inc will host the first-ever Mumbai Basketball Field Day on Friday May 1st at the Dhirubhai Ambani International School in Bandra from 8-11AM. The event will bring together 3 institutional participants of the Hoops India workshops for a competitive series of...
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Hoops India, Nike, and Children’s Hope India team up to start a Basketball Program and Children’s Hope Prayas in West Delhi
Hoops India, Nike, and Children’s Hope India...
March 2009 – Delhi, India Hoops India Inc, Nike, and Children’s Hope India have teamed up to introduce the first basketball program at the Kathputli Colony in west Delhi. The area is essentially a cluster of slums in Pandav Nagar. The Children’s Hope India Prayas program serves over 600 young children per day, providing vocational training, medical check-ups, educational training, computer facilities, and much...
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NBA’s in town today; basketball’s indie movement not far behind
NBA’s in town today; basketball’s indi...
Written by Shivani Naik for the April 8th edition of The Indian Express Mumbai, India - Numerous rings hanging from peeling basketball boards in tucked-away corners of schools and playing grounds across Delhi and its outskirts - many rusting red.  And in Mumbai, Indian hoopster hero Abbas Moontasir’s effervescent mind that ticks and talks away impressively about NBA’s legendary Larry Bird - showing no signs...
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