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Bending it like Huzaib: Kashmiri footballer Shah has mastered 400 trick-shots

by Chandu | Mar 17, 2022

(March 17, 2022) On a sunny day in 2016, a bored Shah Huzaib casually stepped out of his home in Charar-e-Shareef in central Kashmir’s Budgam district when he spotted three friends playing football. They asked him to fill in as a goalkeeper. It was a time when...

‘Bow’ down to Indian archery champ Vennam Jyothi Surekha who has 98 medals & counting

by Chandu | Feb 27, 2022

(February 27) Aiming high is what Vennam Jyothi Surekha excels at. So much so that the winning streak follows her everywhere. As a three-year-old, she learnt swimming. By five, she had a unique record – swimming five km across the river Krishna in Andhra Pradesh...

Alpine skier Aanchal Thakur ‘trail’ blazes as first Indian to win an international bronze

by Sarbani Sen | Jan 24, 2022

(January 24, 2022) Alpine skier Aanchal Thakur does not recall how she fell in love with skiing. She does, however, remember when her feet were strapped to two wooden planks, and was given two sticks to manoeuvre on the snow. “I was five-years-old and I have been...

Racing to put Indian motorsports on the global map – Arjun Maini, Yash Aradhya & Karun Chandok

by Amrita Priya | Dec 31, 2021

(December 31, 2021) The news of the first all-Indian team to compete internationally at the 2021 Asian Le Mans in February sent ripples of anticipation among Indian racers. The all-Indian driver line-up of Narain Karthikeyan, Arjun Maini and Naveen Rao came in fifth...

Nabila Ismail blogging her way in the pandemic

by Chandu | Jul 27, 2021

She was live on BBC News, the pharmacist who loves to travel and is a popular blogger spoke about the US COVID restrictions put in place due to Omicron. The founder of PharmaD, Nabila is a licensed pharmacist and has been featured in Forbes, Trip Advisor, Travel Zoo,...