Nadia, Kenzo and Uchimura are not as deft as Dipa Karmakar on this hazy, idyllic morning. Ambitiously named, they nevertheless play their part in what has been the biggest arrival at the Aakar Gymnasium training centre in Bapgaon, bordering Kalyan and Bhiwandi along river Ulhas. 23-year-old Abhijit Shinde, for whom it got built, has been Dipa’s national camp-mate for many years. It has its brushes with history, but it might not have been what the renowned Gymnastics’ hall designer from Germany — Thierry Deleuze had imagined. There’s more tangles in inter-personal equations than of the limbs in Indian gymnastics, and Aakar centre offered Dipa a calm mind to stitch up her routines.

Source: Indian Express January 19, 2019 22:10 UTC