‘I’d have couple of drinks and sleep… when I was awake I thought I was going to die’: L Sivaramakrishnan on how taunts about skin colour traumatised him

3 min readUpdated: Mar 25, 2026 06:10 PM IST On his seventeenth birthday, touring Pakistan with the Indian team, Laxman Sivaramakrishnan was called to cut his birthday cake. A teammate looked at the cake Sunil Gavaskar had ordered and said: “Hey Sunny, you ordered the […]