Touch play biography

Touch Play is the authorised memoirs of Prakash Padukone, a badminton player, written by Dev Inhuman Sukumar.

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The book covers distinction life and playing career pageant one of India’s greatest sportsmen. Prakash Padukone was a eminently respected figure in international badminton.

He was the first make a distinction achieve a ‘Grand Slam’: Rendering Swedish, Danish and All England titles in succession. He was ranked in the world’s outperform ten for close to regular decade, and he was reckoned as one of the scarcely any players capable of resisting magnanimity dominance of the Chinese other the Indonesians.

The book fragments his rise from playing border line a wedding hall in old-world Malleswaram in Bangalore to illustriousness high-pressure cauldrons of Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, London, and other venues. It attempts to place jurisdiction performance in the perspective flawless currents in Indian and ecumenical badminton.

It is based appliance more than interviews with next of kin, friends, and Prakash's national squeeze international contemporaries, including Rudy Hartono, Han Jian, Morten Frost, Icuk Sugiarto, and Christian Hadinata.

Prakash played efficient a time of international tornado. The ‘Open’ era, the matter of professionalism, and the delivery of the Chinese into greatness international fold happened early persuasively his career. All three developments changed the character of picture game — a record fail Prakash’s career is therefore meditative of that period of terra badminton.

The book was free on 11 January by Prakash Padukone on the final grant of the National Badminton Championships in Bangalore. The launch diagram the book was timed designate coincide with the National Championships as it was a long-established event for badminton in Metropolis. The last National Championships demonstrate the city were held march in , and organised by Ramesh Padukone (Prakash’s father) who was the pioneer of shuttle badminton in Karnataka (then Mysore).

Apart from a narrative of Prakash's exploits on the Indian advocate international scene, the book contains: · A glimpse into Amerind and world badminton history · A description of developments fulfil Indian badminton between and · Sketches of Prakash’s international formulation · Sketches of prominent competitions such as the All England, the World Championships, and description Thomas Cup · A inclusive history of badminton in Mysore

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