No, this is not an advance April Fools’ Day prank!
The Times of India reports that “Kabaddi, India’s truly indigenous sport, is set to go professional with Pro Kabaddi, an eight-team extravaganza which was launched by business tycoon Anand Mahindra at National Sports Club of India” on March 14, 2014.
The report states that “Pro Kabaddi will be an eight-city league with games to be played on home-and-away basis in July and August this year. The cities likely to bid for franchise are Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata, Pune, Jaipur and Patna.”
Another ToI report states that Kishore Biyani (Future Group), Ronnie Screwvala (Unilazer), Uday Kotak (Kotak Bank), Rajesh Shah (Mukand Group), GMR, Murugappa Group have already pledged support to the league as franchise owners, and actor Abhishek Bachchan is likely to buy the Jaipur franchise. Each franchise owner will have to invest about Rs. 50 million per year.
It is extremely heartening to see funds being used to promote an Indian sport!
Let us all resolve to do our bit by watching Pro Kabaddi, either at the venues or on television.
Details about Kabaddi and its history are available on Wikipedia.
Proactive Indian 
I completely agree. Jai ho Bharat. I’ve played kabbadi as a kid it was called hu-tu-tu too.
I have also played hu-tu-tu as a kid. I remember Kabaddi purists arguing that “Hu-tu-tu-tu-tu—” ultimately is a repetition of the single-syllable ‘tu’, while ‘kabaddi’ has 3 syllables!
Finally! 🙂
I hope it does not get corrupted the IPL way. The IPL has made millionaires out of all the corruption it generates. But I agree good for an Indian local sport to get support.
cool… 🙂
hmm… kind of cool no?! 😀
And yea,, its better than IPL any day!
India is changing! wow!
hii i am a state level player of kabaddi and i want to be a part of any of the team for pro kabaddi league please give me details how to apply for a part of team member
harshadjalgaonkar@gmail.com
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