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The League of Forgotten Sportspeople
We are not a nation that encourages sport. How many times have you relatives tell you, “Padhoge likhoge toh hoge nawaab. Kheloge koodoge toh hoge kharaab”?
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Should Women Cricketers Get Equal Pay? The Economic Argument
While the Man of the Match in the men's 2016 Asia Cup won 7,500 USD, the women's captain Mithali Raj received a prize of only 250 USD. Why does the women's game receive the stepchild treatment in the same tournament?
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How I Turned My Gujarati Husband Madly Bengali About Football
My Gujarati husband knew as little about football as I knew about a “pure veg” meal. I taught him the basics, and to my surprise, my husband went much beyond the brief. Now as I cheer for Germany, he prays for Portugal, and our son is called Ochoa after the Mexican goalkeeper.
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They Believe They Can Fly
India’s Ultimate frisbee team is trying to compete at the World Ultimate and Guts Championship – but they need a little more than encouragement.
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Why Our Fathers and Mothers Cheer for Brazil at the World Cup
For second-generation Indians, football has existed like a good book, only in translation, with Brazil writing the most musical of sentences and poetic of thought all along. For them, Brazil’s preposterously stylised brand of football is the only version of the game worth watching.
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Why Aren’t We Cheering for Team India at the Ongoing “Kabaddi World Cup”?
Kabaddi is both a homegrown sport, as well as a hot television property. So why aren’t more Indians gung-ho at the prospect of the boys bringing home a trophy? Well, for starters, it could be because the tournament is taking place in Pakistan.
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Lessons in Life From Nick Kyrgios
Kyrgios is hard to like and maybe even harder to respect, but in a world full of perfectionists and achievers doling out career lessons, he stands for doing less or not doing it at all. It's something we can use being told from time to time.
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Pappu Ki Jhappi, Priya Prakash Varrier’s Wink & DeepVeer’s Shaadi: The 2018 Photo Album
We wept after watching Hima Das on the podium after her historic win, had our hearts swell with pride on witnessing the selflessness of Kerala’s fishermen, and were left seething over the #MeToo testimonies. 2018 has been an emotional rollercoaster. Here are the images that will stay with you long after the year is over.
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What Will It Take for South Africa to Lift the World Cup Curse?
When something is repeated over and over again, it starts gaining credence. Today, South Africa’s World Cup “curse” is something every youngster coming in with dreams in his eyes, just has to deal with and accept. Maybe it has even become a part of the country’s sporting psyche that cannot be shaken off, no matter what happens.
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What’s a Hockey?
The Indian hockey team thought getting Shaad Ali to make a biopic on former captain, Sandeep Singh would definitely get them some attention. Boy, were they wrong.