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Vaibhav Raghunandan
A Larger Design: Ten Step History of Art at the Summer Olympics
03 Aug 2020
Tokyo 2020, The Olympic Fortnight (Series): To notice art one needs to take a step outside the moment. The Olympic podium is always about the moment. So, the medal — a symbol of achievement and glory…
Vaibhav Raghunandan
Olympics on Sail: Medal, Mettle and Mayhem in Munich
29 Jul 2020
Tokyo 2020, The Olympic Fortnight (Series): Captain Soli Contractor, India’s first Olympian in sailing, was on his boat when the terrorist attack on Israeli athletes unfolded at the athletes’ village…
Vaibhav Raghunandan
Dichotomy of Gold: India and the Moscow Olympics
28 Jul 2020
Tokyo 2020, the Olympic Fortnight (Series): Ravinder Pal Singh was part of an Indian hockey generation caught in a flux. He also was a member of the team which won India’s last Olympic gold in hockey…
Vaibhav Raghunandan
Marcelo Bielsa: Genius That’s Hard to Miss, Harder to Notice, Impossible to Fathom
22 Jul 2020
Marcelo Bielsa’s approach follows his own work ethic — meritocracy over privilege. He chose to start from the bottom and work up, and demands his players do it too. His philosophy revolves around two…
Vaibhav Raghunandan
India U-17 Squad Girls Struggle to Survive as Football Big Boys Talk about Return of Big Leagues
10 Jun 2020
Disbanding camps and sending campers home has resulted in terrible hardship for some of India’s most vulnerable athletes. While planners talk of resuming sporting activity and creating “safe zones”,…
Vaibhav Raghunandan
Balbir Singh Sr. Tribute: Indian Hockey’s Senior Stalwart, a Legend with the Golden Stick
25 May 2020
Balbir Singh Dosanjh, one of India’s greatest hockey players, passed away in Chandigarh on May 25. Better known as Balbir Sr.(Senior), he is remembered as the man who scored the most goals in an…
Vaibhav Raghunandan
Lockdown Tales from Hockey: Neha Goyal Dribbles Around Life’s Questions
02 May 2020
A virus has halted everything, even the Olympics, the greatest sporting constant. Stuck now at the Sports Authority of India (SAI) centre in Bengaluru — the Indian hockey teams’ training base — Neha…
Vaibhav Raghunandan
The Lockdown Lives of Football’s Marginalised Essential Service Providers
28 Apr 2020
Football's shut down was necessary and unavoidable. But the resultant loss of livelihood has been huge with no one being immune -- from players, coaches and support staff to the odd job workers and…
Vaibhav Raghunandan
Locked, Stocked and No Smoking Barrels: How Indian Shooters are Faring in Covid-19 Uncertainty
13 Apr 2020
While the NRAI is bent on announcing the Tokyo Olympics squad one and a half years before the Games (as per the current schedule), the shooters — young and seasoned — and their coaches are taking it…
Vaibhav Raghunandan
Playing Patience on an Island: Story of Andaman and Nicobar’s Elite, Yet Poor, Cyclists
11 Apr 2020
Despite minimum resources, a support system fraught with delays, and the hardships that follow, cycling on Andaman and Nicobar island endures, not because of the system but despite it. The narrative…