Desperate measures?

Patriot analyses if ISL’s new Fan Banna Padega campaign is an attempt to bring the audience watching other leagues, to watch the ISL, which is steadily falling in viewership numbers The Indian Super League (ISL) kicked off its fifth season on September 29 with a match between ATK and Kerala Blasters. However, Kolkata boy Sayan […]

Ready for combat

Ancient martial arts like Kung Fu and Kalaripayattu are slowly gaining popularity in Delhi, as they offer self-defence amidst the growing incidence of physical assault in the NCR A group of students dressed in traditional Shaolin attire enters a room led by their Shifu (Master). Then they begin their grueling one-hour session of martial arts, […]

103 years young…and running

At an age where people lose all hope of living and are confined to one corner of the bed due to illness, Mann Kaur, 103, is winning medals in running in different events across the world Mann Kaur of Punjab recently won a gold medal at the World Masters Games in Malaga, Spain where she […]

India’s Muscle Capital

With many national and international credentials to its name, Delhi is emerging as the premier city in the Indian bodybuilding scene In June this year, when the entire country was immersed in the football world cup fever, an Indian man conquered the world in Slovenia — Chitharesh Natesan won the ultimate prize in the World […]

Dynamos’ debacle

Ahead of the new ISL season, here’s a look at why the Delhi Dynamos has never been able to perform according to expectations September 29 is a significant date in the calendar of all Indian football fans as it marks the commencement of the fifth season of the Indian Super League — one of the […]

Bronze medal, golden age

The seniormost Indian medalist at the 2018 Asian Games, Hema Deora, wife of late politician Murli Deora, speaks to Patriot about her life, career and her momentous win at Jakarta In a recent interview to a sports magazine, Union Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore said that it was the power of young blood that helped […]

Hitting a home run

Baseball, a sport primarily popular in the US, is making strides in Delhi, as more and more youngsters take up the game Travelling towards Indira Gandhi International Airport, one might come across a huge field surrounded by floodlights and proper seating arrangements. It looks like an extensive football stadium, but actually, the ‘Field of Dreams’ […]

India’s English headache

As India slump to another defeat on the grassy pitches of England, here’s a look at what went wrong for Kohli and Co. As the sun set in the Rose Bowl Cricket Stadium in Southampton on September 2, so did the hopes of Virat Kohli and the Indian cricket team after England beat them by […]