Back in 2018 when Dipika Pallikal Karthik suddenly ‘disappeared’ from the squash scene many wondered why. There wasn’t even a hint of an injury, so what could have happened to this leading light of Indian squash? But she had her reasons for the “break off” from serious squash.

And now she tells us, after becoming a mother of twin boys, that building her family with popular cricketer Dinesh Karthik was a key reason. Also, among others, was the desire to initiate her interior designing venture, which she launched along with her friend, a qualified architecture engineer from America.