asks Pune's Balaji Ramnarayan, 23, looking at the pixelated forest on the large computer screen. "No," answers his bespectacled Kolkata-based friend Moin Ejaz, clicking away on his light-up mouse. The most popular players can make around $1,000 (Rs 65,000) just by streaming a game directly to their fans. "Women are probably just not taking it seriously," shrugs Joshua Serna, SIGNIFY's captain. Although Balaji's mother would like him to get out of the house more, his father, a visiting consultant at Vellore Institute of Technology advises students to play Dota 2.

Source: Times of India November 05, 2017 00:45 UTC