The Mastan YMCA’s basketball courts in Nagpada witnessed some brave personalities in action this weekend. And their individual disabilities or life struggles had no effect on their skills or spirit as they excelled in India’s first Wheelchair Basketball Premier League (WBPL) organised by Project Mumbai, a NGO.

India’s wheelchair basketball team captain Sureshkumar Karki, 45, a war veteran, who got suffered a severe spinal injury during Gorkha Regiment’s operations against ULFA (United Liberation Front of Asom) militants in Assam in 2004, led the Maharashtra team, comprising mostly athletes from the Indian army’s Paraplegic Rehabilitation Centre (PRC), Pune.