Contributors
The Field Weekly’s reporting and analysis is organized around named beats, not federation talking points or wire copy — see our editorial policy. Here’s who covers what.
Vikram Rao
Chess & Strategy
Vikram covers Indian chess — the Top 10 contenders, FIDE rating cycles, and the psychological and computational shifts reshaping how the country's grandmasters compete.
Ananya Pillai
Football
Ananya covers Indian football, with a focus on the women's game — domestic league structure, national-team form, and the gap between regional dominance and continental competitiveness.
Rohan Desai
Track & Field
Rohan covers Indian track and field, breaking down performance through biomechanics and training science — from throwing technique to the physiology behind a distance runner's comeback.
Meera Chandrasekaran
Wrestling & Combat Sports
Meera covers Indian wrestling and combat sports, tracing how the akhada system and grassroots coaching lineages keep producing results despite federation-level instability.
Aditya Krishnan
Olympic Sports & Sporting Institutions
Aditya covers Indian Olympic disciplines outside the marquee beats — table tennis, shooting, hockey, gymnastics, fencing — with a focus on federation governance, infrastructure, and the friction between athletes and the administrators who oversee them.
The Editorial Board
Institutional Byline
Stories credited to The Editorial Board are collectively researched and edited, without a single named contributor attached.