O-disha: Showing the Way as a Model State for Adopting Sports
States and political parties going to polls can take a leaf out of the Naveen Patnaik government's ability to deliver sports as an electoral promise towards development.
Mixed-Gender Tournaments and Women Coaches: How Sport Is Becoming a Breeding Ground for Feminism
Co-authored by Chirag Chinnappa, Sreeradh Radhakrishnan and Siddhant Sachdeva
The movement for gender equality within India’s sports industry reached a major milestone in 2017 when...
Catch 22: Serena Williams’ “Open” Dilemma
Tennis, a white gentleman’s game for centuries, was revolutionized from the late 1990s by an innocuous debutant, Serena Williams. She entered professional courts in...
Surfing Towards Community Sports Education in Kovalam
This is the second article of a three-part series on how surf schools on India’s coasts are pivoting around sports education to bolster conservation...
Riding the Wave of Sports for Development in India’s Coastal Communities
Dakshin’s findings from the Andaman Islands highlight the potential of the burgeoning sports-for-development sector in India, as well as its challenges.
A Slippery Undersole: Nike and its Faux-Feminist Culture
It has been a tumultuous year for Nike Inc. While the Oregon-based corporation’s stock surged to an all-time high in September 2019, it has...
No First Aid: Mental Health in Indian Cricket
Written by Dhruv Raman and Sreeradh Radhakrishnan
When we hear a post-match presenter ask a winning captain “So, how do you feel?”, it almost seems...
How Lawn Tennis Can be Programmed to Teach 21st Century Life Skills
Dr. Rajender Jaiswal observed a fresh ounce of energy in the tennis program he had been running in the early months of 2020 for...
Checkmate: Why is there a World Women’s Chess Championship?
Written by Parkhee Rattan
At various levels in almost every sport, tournaments are conducted as platforms where the best athletes compete against each other for...
The Power of Sport in Khadija Moin’s Transformation
A 30-minute car ride, westward of the busy Bhubaneswar airport leads to the Dumduma slum area, which houses hundreds of families. One of its...
