Two weeks before Esports player Ayan Biswas boarded his flight to Hangzhou to represent India at the Asian Games, he recalls a moment back home, which comically sums up the turnaround in his life.
“When I started playing this game, my mom constantly scolded me, saying I was wasting my time and that there was no future in this. But now, before I came here, if they see me going outside or even if I am taking rest, she goes, ‘What are you doing? Why aren’t you playing?” chuckles the 24-year-old Ayan.
Ayan, who also goes by his Gamertag, Ayan01, comes from the small town of Birnagar in West Bengal and is the son of a retired railway worker father and a nurse mother. He was among India’s two competitors in the Streetfighter: V event at the Hangzhou Esports Center on Tuesday.
