When Morocco defeated Portugal in the quarter finals of the FIFA World Cup 2022, they entered the league of surprising semi-final participants in Football’s greatest stage. Morocco created history as they became the first African country to ever reach the semi-finals of a FIFA World Cup. Their victory against Portugal …
Read More »Jhulan Goswami drops curtain on her career after scripting her own narrative on women’s cricket
Jhulan Goswami retired from all formats of Cricket after a stellar 20-years of international career. Goswami finished with 255 ODI wickets and 355 wickets in total. “With her retirement, it would be the end of an era in world cricket. The impact she has had in women’s cricket at the …
Read More »Three weeks, two legends- the exit of Serena Williams and Roger Federer gives Tennis an unprecedented moment
Tennis has become a lot poorer within three weeks. The retirement of Serena Williams and Roger Federer brings forward the truth again- all good things come to an end. It’s not even fortnight since Serena Williams played her last match on the circuit. And now Roger Federer has announced his …
Read More »The ‘Tavasi’ of Kajal Srivastava that firmly conserves the indigenous Kalaripayattu
“My story is not a story of success but a story of survival through a storm that I thought would never end.” It was a time of turbulence for Kajal Srivastava. A UPSC aspirant, Kajal was unable to crack the examination for the sixth time and she was in an …
Read More »The Grand ‘Young’ Lady- At 105, Rambai wins double gold at National Open Masters Athletics in record time
Rambai from Haryana, won gold in 100m at the age of 105 in 45.40 seconds by breaking the record of Late Man Kaur. She also won 200m gold in 1:52.17 seconds. In 1917, it was somewhat a different world. India was heavily in the grip of the British, Mahatma Gandhi …
Read More »Ukraine’s Shakhtar Donetsk, exiled by Russian bombs, embrace a peace-themed football tour
Ukraine’s Football team, Shakhtar which was displaced from its original home of Donetsk in 2014, has started their peace-themed tour to bring attention to the plight of war victims and to raise money for the war effort. Shakhtar Donetsk opened a series of charity games on a government-backed “Global Tour …
Read More »When Sabahat or Jameela rises from being a Kashmiri girl to become the paradigm of ‘Sports for Women’
Sabahat Afreen is an international Martial Artist; Jameela Bano is a young Ice Hockey player. Likewise there are other Kashmiri girls who are constantly fighting challenges to emerge as leaders in a society where sports generally belong to men. In 2013, when Sabahat Afreen began doing Martial Arts, she was …
Read More »Faisal Ali Dar- the Padmashri, an ace martial art coach and a propagator of a drug-free world
33-year-old Faisal Ali Dar from Bandipora in Jammu and Kashmir was awarded the Padma Shri in 2022 for the promotion of sports through Martial Arts and his crusade to keep youths away from drugs. The secretariat of President Ram Nath Kovind once wrote an appreciative note to Faisal Ali- “We …
Read More »Pritam Siwach- Arjuna awardee Hockey player joins the elite list of being the Dronacharya award winner as well
Pritam Rani Siwach, one of the ten Dronacharya awardees this year, is dedicating her life to make lives better of multiple young talents of Indian Hockey. It has been a period of 17 years since Pritam Rani Siwach was conferred the Arjuna Award in 1998. She was then in the …
Read More »‘Operation Soccer Balls’- the safe evacuation of the Afghanistan Girls Football Team to provide asylum in Portugal
Due to the ban on female participation in sports imposed by the Taliban in Afghanistan, the international effort to evacuate members of Afghanistan’s Girls Soccer Team has come to fruition under Operation Soccer Balls. Titled “Operation Soccer Balls”, the rescue mission of the Afghanistan National Girls Soccer Football Team is …
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