New Delhi: A prodigy on the shooting range, a maverick off it and an unapologetically obsessed coach, who could identify young talent with awe-inspiring accuracy. Jaspal Rana was arguably the first marksman to capture India's imagination before the sport came of age.
Rana breathed his last at a relatively young age of 49 after battling cardiac issues that came to fore while he was flying back from Munich to Delhi, requiring urgent hospitalisation some days ago.