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The Unifying Power of Cricket in India

“Dhoni finishes off in style. A magnificent strike into the crowd. India lift the World Cup after 28 years. The party starts in the dressing room, and it’s an Indian captain who’s been magnificent on the night of the final.” – These words (More like poetry by Ravi Shastri) are etched forever in the hearts […]

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Sport in the Age of the Coronavirus

Sports in the Age of Coronavirus

Far from breaking social barriers, the COVID-19 crisis actually reinforces them as elite sports coronate high achievers from India’s despairing hinterland. In Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal, as plague claims half of Europe, a knight challenges Death to a game of chess to save himself and his friends. What follows is a celebration of the […]