As captain of the junior Maharashtra basketball team, 18-year-old Darayus Dinshaw Mehta played in the nationals at Chittor in Andhra Pradesh in June 2004. "I had been chosen captain the previous year too, but I could not go (for the coaching camp and tournament) as my Std XI exams were at the same time,” he explains. Just before his appointment (as captain) this year the Jai Hind College student had savored more good news — his 96 percent in PCM (physics, chemistry, mathematics) at the Higher Secondary Certificate examination. June was truly a great month, he laughs.
"When you step on......