Tag: SPORTS

The exclusion of India’s number one spin bowler Ravichandran Ashwin in the ongoing test series against England is a shocker.

In the postmodern era of media simulated hyperreality, as Jean Baudrillard would argue, it is no longer possible to distinguish the real from the media constructed spectacle. Are we really seeing football and cricket? Or are we watching television-mediated/technologically induced signs and symbols like glossy ads and soap operas? The author—a distinguished sociologist of sport—invokes Baudrillard, and throws light on the changing sport culture. This piece is an excerpt from one of his papers.

Soccer player Marcus Rashford’s efforts towards starting a book club for the marginalised children in United Kingdom is a worthy step that would help address an educational divide that sidelines children from ethnic minorities.

Although it is a film which has possibilities, Chhalaang deals inadequately with the very issues it ought to have focussed on.

Women athletes have been facing rampant sexual abuse, pointing to conditions that are hostile to women.

While the nation celebrates National Sports Day marking Major Dhyan Chand’s birth anniversary, PM Narendra Modi launches Fit India Movement at Indira Gandhi Stadium in New Delhi.

From muddy rice fields to global fame, Hima’s phenomenal story is more than momentary nationalism.

SPORTS The grand spectacle of IPL has held the spectators in captivation since its conception in 2008 by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).

INSPIRING | The story of Hima Das is inspirational as it reminds us of the immense possibilities that are undiscovered in India’s remote villages.