•Hello and welcome to Walk the Talk, I'm Shekhar Gupta at Bangalore's Karnataka Badminton Association stadium and my guest today, well I'm so tempted to say, the original Padukone, Prakash, welcome to Walk the Talk.

Thank you

•It's such a privilege to have you on walk the talk, I've been your fan, follower for so many decades.

Thank you so much. Great honour to be on the show.

•Again if I may have India's first real world champion, I know there was Wilson Jones in billiards, but the game that people watched…

Thank you

•I know you are now also handling the glow of your daughter's fame, but remind us a little about the days, late seventies, early eighties. I think the last time badminton made headlines in our sport pages.

Well I think the last time it was probably in 1980 when I won the All England. I think that was the turning point of the Indian Badminton.

•Followed by the World Cup.

Yes, followed by the World Cup in 1981. But I think it's been a very steady growth of badminton in India. In fact 60s and 70s also we did produce some very good players. And my first victory came in 1971, an I won the senior and junior national titles in the same year at the age of 16.

•I think it's the first time for somebody to have won the seniors and juniors at the same time.

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