Remembering a timely act of generosity that bailed out the State association

Today’s generation of billiards and snooker aficionados will have little reason to connect late Feroz Khan with their sport, but the older lot, myself included, would remember his one act of spontaneous generosity that rescued the Karnataka State Billiards Association (KSBA) from disaster.

Back in the 1980s, the KSBA was in the process of a resurrection, having moved to its new (and current) premises from Brigade Road. There was a new found dynamism and enthusiasm among the KSBA officials who plotted a course of action that would put not just Karnataka but also India on the world billiards and snooker map.

Those were heady days with Sachu (BV Sachidananda Murthy) at the helm. For whatever faults Sachu might have had, the fact was that he was totally devoted to the task of lifting the profile of billiards and snooker.

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