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Sleep lays strong foundation for athletes in high performance sport, says Dr. Monika Sharma

Sleep is essentially a function of the brain that sets a strong foundation for all other training, says Sleep Scientist Dr. Monika Sharma, in this conversation. Founder of Sleep Moksha,…

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When will elite sport resume competition in India?

S Kannan and I discuss issues around the resumption of competition in some sport, training in others and the reopening of pools in India in the wake of the Covid-19…

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Indian badminton courts trouble on all fronts

My colleague S Kannan and I analyse the Indian badminton landscape in the wake of the decision to cancel the National Camp after players cited short notice and quarantine regulations…

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Javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra is not listed among the projected medallists by GraceNote
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Time to revamp & restore pride of National Sports Awards

Neeraj Chopra & PT Usha being overlooked is baffling S Kannan and G Rajaraman discuss the National Sports Awards, the selection committee decision to ignore Neeraj Chopra for the Rajiv…

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Chhavi Kohli and the use of social media to promote awareness of mental health, fencing and charity

It was interesting to probe the mind of a young fencer, Chhavi Kohli, on how she uses Social Media with awareness and in keeping with her larger goal of helping…

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Any logic in taking IPL 2020 to UAE?

Columnist Hemant Kenkre and Sunil Vaidya, former Sports Editor of Khaleej Times, Dubai, join me in discussing the idea of staging this year’s delayed Indian Premier League in the United…

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Cricket captains, known and unknown

Former Hyderabad off-spinner V Ramnarayan shares some deep insights into the art of captaincy, sharing his experience of playing with and against a range of captains from ML Jaisimha to…

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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…

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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…

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