Administrators beware

In Open magazine, Akshay Sawai profiles lawyer Rahul Mehra, the man who forced the powerful BCCI to become more transparent and who has now filed a public interest litigation against almost all major sporting bodies in India, demanding that they come clean.

“It is a clear-cut objective,” he says in a voice that resembles Saif Ali Khan’s. “I’m sick and tired of seeing the way every sport is molested and raped by people administering it, and I say this with utmost responsibility.”

In a country where even personal disputes languish for years in court, wouldn’t a case involving several organisations take forever? Mehra’s reply is on the tip of his tongue and out before the question is completed. “Rome wasn’t built in a day.”