Sports

Development and Sports

Sun, Sand and Cricket: The UAE Story

Written by Sreeradh Radhakrishnan Despite never having achieved test status, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been an integral part of the cricketing world for...

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...

Defeating Plastic Pollution Through Sport

Written by Swagam Dasgupta Plastic has become an integral part of our life. So integral, that we seldom take notice of the amount we consume....

Is the Sports Industry India’s Next Big Thing?

Researched and written by Sreeradh Radhakrishnan. India put on its best ever show since 1985 at the recently concluded 22nd edition of the Asian Athletics...

India’s Sportswomen – A Brighter Future

In the recently concluded 2017 ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup, India's Women in Blue came astonishingly close to winning their first ever World Cup....

The Stuff That Champions Are Made Of

Written by Dhruv Raman What does it take to win an extraordinary game? An extraordinary performance, right? Think back to the biggest games you have...

Treating the Unseen: Pro-Athletes’ Struggle with Mental Health

Written by Ajoy S. Karpuram Strength. Alpha. Superhuman. These are just a few of the words we use to identify professional athletes. Ever since the...

Virtual Battlegrounds: Where “Digital Athletes” are Making a Strong Case for Themselves

Written by Kartik Sundar When ESPN first broadcasted “The International” in 2014, they were met with waves of criticism from their base audience. For the...

A Whitewashed Nation: Race and Football in Argentina

Written by Kartik Sundar If you were to walk down the streets of Buenos Aires, you would be forgiven for thinking you were somewhere in...

Catch 22: Serena Williams’ “Open” Dilemma

Written by Aarathi Ganesan Tennis, a white gentleman’s game for centuries, was revolutionized from the late 1990s by an innocuous debutant, Serena Williams. She entered...