‘Football-vale guruji’ teaching football in Maoist-hit areas
Seventy-year-old Dilip Basurai, widely known as the “football vale guruji” in the Maoist-stricken areas of Bastar, Chhattisgarh has been teaching football to school-age children of the 130 villages in the area. Basurai, who has often used his pension allowance to buy footballs for the tribal children, says, “I urge the government to take steps to promote football in this area".