(September 28, 2025) The chill of Lake Bodensee did little to slow six-year-old Mannem Nagasai Aashritha. Stroke after steady stroke, she cut across the deep blue waters, her small frame defying the vast expanse between Lindau in Germany and Bregenz in Austria. What...
(September 17, 2025) Recently in Liverpool, the arena of the 2025 World Boxing Championships buzzed as a 24-year-old boxer from a village few could pinpoint on a map delivered a blistering counter. When the referee raised her arm, the celebration reached far beyond...
(September 10, 2025) When R Vaishali sat across the board from Belarusian Grandmaster Olga Badelka at the ongoing FIDE Grand Swiss 2025 at Samarkand in Uzbekistan, she had little more than a minute on her clock. For most players, that kind of pressure would be...
(September 2, 2025) “For me, this ranking is just another milestone and a reminder that I should keep doing things that I have been doing to be a better player.” When Sahaja Yamalapalli said this after becoming India’s top-ranked women’s tennis player, it captured the...
(August 25, 2025) Seventeen-year-old Haryana wrestler Kajal Dochak stood tall on the podium in Samokov, Bulgaria, on August 22 after clinching gold in the women’s 72kg category at the U20 World Wrestling Championships. Apart from being a victory for India, the...
