At Kunal Maria's office in Altamount Road hangs a picture of Rakesh Maria, former Director-General of Home Guards and ex-Commissioner of Police, Mumbai. In this frame, the strapping Maria is playing basketball. You'd think the other young man in the photograph is Kunal, but it's his younger brother Krish. The photograph was taken in Naigaon four years ago by the same photographer who is accompanying this writer to shoot Kunal. "I received a lot of messages when the picture released. But, it couldn't have been me because I don't have a pathetic defence like Krish!"

Kunal knows his basketball, a sport he pursued all through high school, representing Maharashtra at national championships, and India, too. When this picture was shot in 2015, Kunal was away in the United States pursuing a masters in sports, media and entertainment law at Georgetown University. Before returning to India, he worked in the sports practice at a law firm in New York.