Skiing is more popular although India has taken part in Luge in Winter Olympics since 1998.
The Bandy Federation of India is headquarters are in Mandi in Himachal Pradesh.
Luge is practiced in a big way by the mountain residents in an improvised form called 'Reri'.
He is currently the Asian Speed record holder at 134.4 km/h, making him the fastest man in Asia on ice.
It was introduced in Kashmir in 1979 when two local skiers Muhammad Yusuf and Mehraj Din undertook a ski - touring expedition to Lidder Valley.