On this episode of Next in Sports, we meet Anand Mahindra as he tries to push an ancient Indian sport into the Olympics and beyond.
Next in Sports: Can the ancient Indian sport of kabaddi someday rival cricket?
Around the time of the 2008 launch of the Indian Premier League (IPL), billionaire Anand Mahindra was asked to invest in the now-hugely successful short-format cricket tournament that transformed the global fortunes of the sport.
The tycoon, who heads the automotive and industrial conglomerate Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., wasn’t particularly interested in what he considered a dull, passive vanity project. But it did spark an idea.