India, Sept. 9 -- Dear Mr Ranjit Bajaj,

As Founder of the highly successful Minerva Academy and someone putting his heart and soul into developing Indian football, I have a lot of respect for you.

However, last week, in the 'Untriggered' podcast, you launched an unprovoked attack on golfers and golf courses. It was truly untriggered. You should have used the platform to highlight your wonderful work with football, but you chose to denigrate golf instead. So, I thought I'd set the record straight, also in a public forum.

Among your grievances against the sport is that golf courses are built in the heart of the city, thus depriving other sports of 'prime' real estate. You also said that 1 per cent people play the sport, and that's the 1 ...