Author: G Rajaraman
Bid to unseat Batra as FIH & IOA Chief meets swift end
An ill-advised international expedition has ground to a halt on Friday, with International Hockey Federation (FIH) Integrity Unit and International Olympic Committee (IOC) Ethics and Compliance Officer both swiftly but…
Coaching: An Athlete’s Perspective
Olympian and 1998 Asian Games bronze medallist Rachita Panda-Mistry and 2004 South Asian Games gold medallist Sandeep Sarkaria paint an athlete’s perspective on coaching at Disha, an Uttar Pradesh Athletics…
Gomathi gets four-year ban
A little over a year after she caught the imagination of fans of sport in India with a gold-medal winning run in the Asian Athletics Championships, Marimuthu Gomathi has been…
Cricket Conversations – The Great Indian Assembly Line
Hemant Kenkre and G Rajaraman strike up a conversation that looks at how the ‘assembly line’ of Indian cricket has changed from schools and universities as well as private tournaments…
EFI, a peculiar federation, looking to anoint another president without election
In keeping with its claim that it administers a peculiar sport to not comply with the National Sports Development Code of India 2011, Equestrian Federation of India (EFI) is preparing…
Second class citizens?
The Indian swimmers’ hearts sank collectively when they discovered that their sport was not part of the Standard Operating Procedure released by the Sports Authority of India (SAI) a week…
BWF Calendar Seems Senseless: Prannoy
It seems senseless for the World Badminton Federation’s (BWF) to rush to schedule as many as 22 grade 1 and 2 tournaments in just over four months from August 11,…
Celebrating GR Viswanath
It was an overwhelming experience, watching my colleagues and friends R Mohan, Vijay Lokapally, Vincent Sunder and Hemant Kenkre portray the image and aura of one of India’s finest batsmen…
Cricket Conversations #1: A look back at India’s epochal twin tours of West Indies and England
Former Bombay University cricketer Hemant Kenkre is always fun to talk cricket with. A fountainhead of stories, he lets me engage him in a conversation around the milestone victories of the Indian…
Delayed, Ministry list of recognised NSFs draws mixed reaction from sports fraternity
The list of National Sports Federations (NSF) granted annual recognition by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports is out after an inordinate delay. Comprising 54 NSFs, it has ruffled…
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