Carrom champion coaches youth, hopes to land a govt. job

L. Keerthana, who won the 52nd Senior National Carrom Championship held recently in New Delhi, coaches younger players. Introduced to the board game by her father, a daily-wage labourer, financial struggles forced the 21-year-old to step away from the game for a while to support her family; her mentor, Nithyarajan, says her win in the women’s singles is Tamil Nadu’s first in 15 years

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