Topics
Chess
Coverage of Indian chess at the elite level: FIDE rating cycles, the country's Top 10 contenders, and how a generation trained against engines is changing what 'clutch' means at the board.
Football
Coverage of Indian football, with particular attention to the women's game — regional tournaments, domestic league structure, and what it takes to convert South Asian dominance into continental competitiveness.
Track & Field
Coverage of Indian athletics through the lens of training science: throwing and running technique, biomechanics, and the physiological rebuilding behind a comeback or a personal best.
Wrestling
Coverage of Indian wrestling and the akhada system that continues to produce international medalists despite instability at the federation level.
Sports Science
The biomechanics and physiology underneath elite performance — how throwing, running, and grappling technique actually works, beyond the medal count.
Table Tennis
Coverage of Indian table tennis, where individual athletes increasingly outgrow the domestic federations meant to support them.
Shooting
Coverage of Indian shooting across air rifle, air pistol, and mixed-team formats, where the margins are measured in fractions of a millimeter and a steady nervous system.
Hockey
Coverage of Indian field hockey, from Pro League form to the institutional and competitive consequences of relegation and promotion.
Combat Sports
Coverage of Indian combat disciplines outside wrestling's akhada tradition — karate, boxing, and judo — where Indian athletes are learning to compete inside scoring systems built around a different sporting culture.
Gymnastics
Coverage of Indian gymnastics, where individual talent regularly outpaces the infrastructure — foam pits, crash mats, training centers — that the sport assumes exists.
Fencing
Coverage of Indian fencing and the broader project of building a domestic presence in a sport with no historical foothold in the country.
Para Sport
Coverage of Indian para-sport across disciplines, treated as a question of biomechanical engineering and elite performance, not inspiration.
Sports Governance
How Indian sports federations make decisions, and what those decisions cost the athletes who have to live with them — selection disputes, infrastructure investment, and the politics of hosting.
The Week in Numbers
A results ledger for everything Indian athletes won, or nearly won, in disciplines outside that week's marquee storylines — archery to shooting to para sport.