This 21-Year-Old Football Coach Is Changing the Lives of Young Slum Dwellers...
For over 30 kids, dwelling in the slums of Burhanpur, a small district on the border of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, football is an absolute game changer. All thanks to their 21-year-old football...
View ArticleThe Untold Story of India’s Leading Woman Sailor, Dr Rohini Rau!
When Rohini Rau decided to take up competitive sailing, it wasn’t just the unfavourable winds she was up against. It was one girl vs a world of naysayers who thought women couldn’t & shouldn’t...
View ArticleHow Rupanti Munda Fought Naxal Attacks, Poverty to Become an International...
While Rupanti Munda grew up, she was used to the sight of armed Naxalites barging into homes in her tiny village – demanding food, money, and girls. Child marriage and human trafficking marred most...
View ArticleOnce He Sold Newspapers, Now This Pune Boy’s Boxing Dreams Are Coming True
If athletes in the country get half the attention and funding that cricketers are showered with, the story of Indian sports would have been quite different. But with many prolific sportspersons...
View ArticleHow the Chess Community Came Together to Save Fellow Player from Across the...
Ikramul Haq Siam, a talented chess player, is a three-time national sub-junior champion of Bangladesh, a Candidate Master and has a current rating of 2174. Things were looking up for him in his career,...
View Article#GirlsDon’tFight: Kangana Ranaut Breaks Stereotypes in New Reebok Campaign
This article is sponsored by Reebok She crosses an eerie lane while going back home at midnight. A group of men stand by the sidewalk, undressing her mentally as they stare with unblinking eyes. Her...
View ArticleSeven New ICC Rules for Cricketers You Need to Know About
The rules that govern most sports keep evolving. Some may be game-changing innovations, which usher in a whole new era – like Day-Night Tests, or T20. Some are incremental changes that make the game...
View ArticleWhy Shouldn’t the Deaf Learn Martial Arts? This Instructor Has Proved They Can!
Not all Karate instructors would know how to teach profoundly deaf children. It’s not only a daunting but also a very demanding task. However, there is one instructor who has accepted that challenge....
View ArticleU-17 FIFA World Cup 2017: Meet the Indian Squad!
With India hosting the Under-17 FIFA World Cup, every football fanatic in the country is eagerly awaiting the tournament. More so, because this is the first time that an Indian team will be part of a...
View ArticleDisabled and Broke, How Dharamveer Still Became India’s Greatest Cricket Fan!
How far will you go in the name of love? Especially if your fixation rests on Cricket? Never miss a single match that is telecasted? Or even better, watch it from the stadium in person? But no matter...
View ArticleForgotten Hero: The Story of Shamsher Khan, India’s First Olympic Swimmer
On 15 October 2017, India’s first Olympian swimmer, Mehboob Shamsher Khan, died of a cardiac stroke at his native village of Kythapalli in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh. In 1956, Khan had become a...
View ArticleHow a Surprise Call by the Mumbai Police Helped This Boxer Achieve Her Dream
In 2014, Mumbai’s Madhavi Gonbare’s boxing career started when she was in the second year of completing her BMS from Ramniranjan Jhunjhunwala, Ghatkopar. The 21-year-old’s talent was noticed during a...
View ArticleVirat Kohli World’s Most Marketable Cricketer, Overtakes Messi in Forbes...
Apart from being one of the best cricketers in the world and a heartthrob, Virat Kohli has now achieved another major milestone in his illustrious career—of being the most marketable global cricketer!...
View Article3 Things That Transformed Srikanth Kidambi into the Crown Jewel of Indian...
A calm demeanour while making history. Smashing records and still humble. This is none other than our pride, the jewel in the crown of Indian Badminton, Srikanth Kidambi. How do you react when you join...
View ArticleMeet Anil Patil, Who Trains Rural Kids in Sports and Refuses to Charge Them...
“I could not complete my dream of making a career as a sportsman, but I now see thousands of children from rural India fulfilling their dreams with a little help from me,” says 42-year-old Anil, with a...
View ArticleDelhi Wrestler Won Gold at Wrestling Nationals While Her Father Sold Langots...
As Divya Kakran would fight boys at small village dangals (wrestling matches) all over North India, her father Suraj would sell langots (a type of underwear used by wrestlers) outside. Both would walk...
View ArticleThe Yacht Club of Hyderabad: Helping Less-Privileged Children Sail Toward a...
Suheim Sheikh loves sailing. A graduate from IIT Madras, he ran a software products company involved in the creation of real-time Stock Trading and Surveillance systems and worked extensively on Fraud...
View ArticleAmazing Journey: From a Mumbai Slum to a Budding Footballer Felicitated by...
Living in a shanty near Mumbai’s King’s Circle station for almost eight years of her life never deterred 16-year-old Mary Prakash Naidu from chasing her football dreams. And this undeterred footballer...
View ArticleHe Slept in Stadiums and Trained in Jungles to Put India on the Global MMA Map
“Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place, and I don’t care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you...
View ArticleLet’s Voice Our Support for These Girls, Punching Their Way to Tokyo 2020.
The recently concluded AIBA World Women’s Youth Boxing Championships held in Guwahati saw Indian pugilists grab five top positions, thus finishing as overall champions. A minor fire mishap was the only...
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