While sprinter Animesh Kujur has become India’s fastest man, middle-distance runner Mohammed Afsal & long-distance runner Gulveer Singh are busy breaking records.
Clubs such as Bhag, catered toward the chronically online Gen Z crowd, are leveraging social media trends and the promise of social connections to gain runners.
Published by HarperCollins India, 'The Day I Became a Runner' by Sohini Chattopadhyay will be released on 21 November on SoftCover, ThePrint’s online venue to launch non-fiction books.
In 2022, athletes claimed they were asked to wind up training early at Thyagraj Stadium so that the IAS couple could walk their dog. Then came the memes and public outrage.
Instead of buying more Mirages outright in early 2000s, the requirement was tweaked in favour of a medium-weight, multi-role fighter with Mirage-like performance.
Pakistan not only has zero chance of catching up with India in most areas, but will inevitably see the gap rising. Its leaders will offer its people the same snake oil in different bottles.
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