At sunrise on a cold February morning, 18-year-old Nim Doma swept - TopicsExpress



          

At sunrise on a cold February morning, 18-year-old Nim Doma swept stones and leaves off a basketball court perched high on a hillside in western Sikkim. Around her, 11 other teenaged girls, all dressed in jerseys and shorts, did the same. They worked briskly for a few minutes, then put the brooms aside. Next they picked up basketballs, and started running drills. Morning practice had begun. Doma is the star of the “Girls of Gangyap”—the basketball team of the Eklavya Model Residential School in the small village of Gangyap, about a six-hour drive west of the Sikkimese capital, Gangtok. The EMRS squad is one of the most explosive school teams in the nation. In the Lede, Karan Madhok on the national aspirations of a celebrated basketball team.
Posted on: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 09:30:47 +0000

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