by anilkumar | Jun 14, 2023
This Article First Appeared In The Print On June 11, 2023 On a lazy afternoon at Mumbai’s Juhu beach, two tattooed teenage boys suddenly broke into somersaults. A crowd gathered, cheering and clapping. The boys kept flipping till they reached the edge of the sea. The...
by anilkumar | Aug 4, 2023
This Article First Appeared In The Scroll On July 29, 2023 India’s long road to the Davis Cup final in 1974 began on a hot Saturday in May in Kanpur when it took on Japan in the quarterfinals of the Eastern Zone’s main draw. That team, powered by a tall 20-year-old...
by Charu Thakur | Aug 22, 2023
(The article first appeared in Scroll on August 19, 2023) In 1894, the British colonial authorities in the Straits Settlements (present-day Malaysia and Singapore) began to raise concerns about a new immigration pattern. In a note to their counterparts in India, they...
by anilkumar | Aug 30, 2023
This Article First Appeared In The Scroll On August 29, 2023 The distance of 88.17 metres. That’s a figure, along with 87.58 metres, that will go down as one of the most iconic in Indian sports history. The latter helped the country win its first Olympic gold medal in...
by anilkumar | Oct 9, 2023
This Article First Appeared In The News 18 On October 4, 2023 For decades, India has been a country fascinated by one sport alone – cricket. Nothing brings Indians together like cricket. The past few years, however, have seen the emergence of a genuine interest in...