Siddhartha Upadhyay

Sportsman. That's the best way to describe me. I love to play. And engage with people according to the rules of the game. To play gives me a great thrill. I grew up thinking, perhaps, sports is the best way to interact with fellow humans.

I couldn't pursue a career in sports due to a debilitating injury. This was an important phase in my life.

I realised fairly early in my life, encouraging and facilitating children to play gave me the thrill of playing a sport. I was barely twenty when I started earning, and from the day one, part of my income would go towards buying neighbouring teenagers cricket kit. I helped them level a barren patch of land to make it suitable to play