Making India Great: The Urgent Need for Sports Technology
Co-authored by Aditya Vikram and Tanay Gokhale
It doesn’t take an ardent sports fan to notice that technology has insidiously impacted the way we view,...
Making India Play Again: Loose Ends in the Khelo India Scheme Restrain Talent
The atmosphere was just something else. The stadiums were decorated and there was a big hype around us. We were all really excited.
This is...
The Damage is Already Done: An Aesthetic Argument Against the European Super League
The ESL is only the latest instalment in making football a repetitive, formulaic, and homogenous enterprise that flattens the game towards a singular aesthetic outlook.
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...
Jayanti Behera is Running Against All Odds
If there were any reason for people to visit Sakhigopal, a quaint town on the coast of Odisha, it would probably be to pay...
Data Data Everywhere, Whose is it to Give?
Written by Sourya Reddy & Swagam Dasgupta
It was a bone-dry morning in the middle of May, much like any other summer in Delhi. Although...
Dialogues: Saumil Majmudar on Incorporating “Play” via the National Education Policy
Trying to get 100 million kids to play
Saumil Majmudar’s Twitter bio encapsulates his straightforward yet revolutionary ambition. The Co-Founder and Managing Director of Sportz...
Public Private Partnerships: The Win-Win Recipe for Indian Sport?
Over the past decade, Indian sport has seen a great change in terms of its value to players and fans. It has evolved into...
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...
Tokyo Calling: In Conversation with India’s First Female Sailor
Updated on July 13th
In the next episode of our series, Tokyo Calling, Chirag Chinnappa sits down with India's first woman sailor, Nethra Kumanan.
Nethra sheds...
