Adios gambhir!

Even in the most glorious moments of Gautam Gambhir’s 15-year career, the vicarious sense of being deprived never left his admirers When dealing with banal certitudes, most comebacks don’t rescue you from the inevitable. A mushy Facebook video replaces that imagined farewell speech that would have followed the last outing on the imagined big stage, […]

Caught at fine leg

With Indian women’s cricket in a mess, here’s how the game has developed in the country in the recent past Indians at this point of time have their eyes glued to the exploits of men in blue as they face off against Australia. But while India won the T20 series against Australia and is waiting […]

New kids on the block

At the Under-15 World Schoolgirls Championships in Japan, India managed to secure a record tally of seven medals. Patriot speaks to some of the medalists and the coach as to what went behind this achievement At international wrestling tournaments in the last few years, India has performed exceedingly well. From Sushil Kumar’s silver medal at […]

A RACE FOR SURVIVAL

India’s only F1 track in Greater Noida has not hosted the Grand Prix for five years but is kept buzzing with all kinds of events. Will this formula keep it afloat? On the outskirts of Delhi, is where rows of apartment complexes, some occupied and many under construction, lead the way to the Buddh International […]

India chants ‘kabaddi, kabaddi…’

The Pro Kabaddi league is the most watched non-cricketing league in India. Patriot traces the rise of the tournament and the impact it has had on the sport Cricket is the most popular sport in India by a country mile. But can anyone guess which is the second most watched sport in the country? Neither […]

The other men in blue

The Indian wheelchair cricket team is on a roll with their recent victories over Bangladesh and Pakistan. Here’s a look at their rise to the top, and how they still need financial and moral support to grow On September 22nd this year, India defeated Pakistan by a mammoth margin of 89 runs after scoring a […]

ISL- bane or boon?

Patriot analyses whether the Indian Super League has been responsible for the rise of Indian football in the past number of years “Come on India, let’s football” – this is the slogan with which the Indian Super League was flagged off by the All India Football Federation (AIFF) and IMG-Reliance in 2014, with the aim […]

Running past disability

From cleaning DTC buses to becoming the first Indian to win a gold at an international running event, Narayan Thakur shares his inspiring story, which also made its place in PM Modi’s Mann Ki Baat Narayan Thakur was born with a serious condition called left side hemiparesis, a condition in which a person suffers a […]