Taking a young bunch under the charity Touraid’s initiative to London, Walsh insisted that with the team comprising some of the primitive tribes of Orissa like Bonda, Juang and Lodha, rugby has reached one of the most disadvantaged and remote sections of the country. And it’s a merry bunch tossing the ball obliquely now.
In rugby World Cup season — the feverish waves not quite reaching Indian shores from France — and on a day when the Indian Army team improvised on the haka to celebrate their maiden national title, rugby has hurdled over another barrier. What’s more —the tribal mini-champs from Orissa can concoct their own wining war-dance and number.
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