•Well, at least the official is going for a vacation, so get the athlete to qualify and your battle is won.

Absolutely. That needs to change. The officials must be equally motivated like the athlete and must have the fire in them that we got to get our boys and girls winning.

•I was reading some old interviews of yours. In fact, going back to 2001 when, at the age of 18, you were fretting about the fact that we were short of coaches in shooting.

Absolutely, we do not have a good coaching structure in India, and it’s very unfortunate. By saying that I don’t mean that our coaches are not good. It’s just that they need to learn and adapt to the new techniques. They need to be trained as well and that’s very important. If they are trained to new technology and the new way of sport, we would be equally good, there’s no doubt.

•At one point, we let a coach go because we couldn’t pay him, maybe, 500 dollars more per month -- a Hungarian coach.

Yeah that’s right. That was unfortunate and it had a bad impact on Indian shooting for a few years.

•But tell me something, all of us, we are a country of 100 crore cricket coaches….

I’m also one of them.

•Very little is known about your sport. Tell me about it, you know, what is so different with shooting and your particular event?

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