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Athlete-Journalist relationships: From Sunday Club meetings to tracking social media handles now

Some of us sigh poignantly or smile in sheer nostalgia when recalling some conversations with sportsperson that we would take to our graves rather than share even as drawing room…

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AIR Spotlight July 24, 2021

All India Radio’s Spotlight programme broadcast on the evening of July 24, 2021 after the Olympic Games Opening Ceremony was completed in Tokyo

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Tokyo2020: Countdown show on All India Radio

A rich range of voices are brought together to be a part of the Countdown to Tokyo 2020 on All India Radio. Originally broadcast in three parts of 20 minutes…

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AIR Spotlight: Nation Cheers Indian Contingent for Tokyo2020

All India Radio invited S Kannan and I to a discussion on Nation cheers the Indian contingent for Tokyo Olympic Games on its prestigious Spotlight programme on July 11, 2021.

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The Rohit Sharma Story captures a lad’s journey from Mumbai suburbs to millions of hearts

The Covid-19 Pandemic has brought along different things, mostly adverse, to different people, but Vijay Lokapally and G Krishnan have done well to use the time during lockdown and later…

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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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IPL needs Open Minds Behind Closed Doors

Can you visualise the Indian Premier League being played behind closed doors, as some have suggested, and the thought seems to be gaining ground? Can you imagine the silence when…

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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 – 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…

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