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Sunday, November 23, 2025
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Topic: Sports

In spite of being mediocre

India's bane is our easy embrace of mediocrity — from academia and science to business and military power. Sport is an apt metaphor.

Faster, higher, stronger, but for God’s sake, be calmer

No country can go from zero to hero in Olympic sports. A hundred Indians now feature in the top-25 and why that's real progress.

There’s a gold lining

A look at some figures behind the dismal medal tallies at 2012 London Olympics and the news is not so bad. It is a story of all-round improvement and progress in some key sports and areas.

Athletes can’t run

It takes the enterprise, networking, ambition, and thick skin and greed of a politician, a businessman or even a bureaucrat to build, manage and then monetise a sport in India.

And a Gold for Delhi

One of the unintended and happy consequences of the 2010 Commonwealth Games is that it announces the rise of this new, professional, cosmopolitan Delhi as India's number one city.

Sport without borders

To build excellence in any sport create domestic competition. In all great sporting nations, inter-state or inter-club rivalries are as passionate as between national teams at the Olympics.

On Camera

Is Indian skincare better than Korean, French, Japanese products?

Indian skin is pigmented, photoreactive, and prone to post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation. Formulations must prioritise barrier support, gentle brightening, and photo protection.

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.

From a small Kangra village to Tejas cockpit: IAF fighter pilot Namansh Syal’s journey cut short

Wing Commander Namansh Syal is survived by his wife, their 6-year-old daughter and his mother. Back in his native village, relatives and neighbours wait for his remains for last rites.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.