Augusto,

In response to your statement below, I must say that I was pleasantly surprised 
to

see that the Indoor Stadium at Campal, was filled with players and those 
waiting to

play Badminton, when I visited it a couple of times, in 2008. 

It was not the case in the 80s, when often, I had to return home, after waiting 
for any playing

partner to turn up for an hour!


> But by and large, nowadays its another world altogether of course, as it is
> the mobile phones, computers and bikes that kids prefer playing with, rather
> than table tennis or badminton.


Roshan Lal Nahar was the coach in the 70s and 80s and he used to put us through 
the

grind with an iron hand!


Naguesh Bhatcar
[email protected]


> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:27:43 +0530
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Goanet] Table Tennis in the seventies
> 
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
> But by and large, nowadays its another world altogether of course, as it is
> the mobile phones, computers and bikes that kids prefer playing with, rather
> than table tennis or badminton.
> -- 
> 
> 
> Augusto Pinto

                                          
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