Sai Sudharsan and the pre-Mother’s Day surprise

This interview was conducted on Mother’s Day, and perhaps that’s why I will start with this…

Our Champions, and the Mothers Who Nurtured Them

Successful sports stories don’t happen overnight. They need to be nurtured for years for the world…

Chess on celluloid  adds to the national imagination

Just days before Sachin: A Billion Dreams was all set to hit movie screens around the…

Vintage Dhoni, but too little of it

MS Dhoni danced down the track and timed his helicopter shot to perfection. Within a fraction…

Virat Kohli, and the RCB turnaround

It’s been 16 seasons without a title. And the 17th was also starting to look bad…

The picture behind why Banned: A Social Media Trial had to be written

I am in Bengaluru for a series of shoots, and Simon and Schuster, my publishers, had…

SMASH HIT: Sanju Samson is an obvious choice for Playing XI in the ICC T20 World Cup

Sanju Samson or Rishabh Pant is a debate that has been raging in IPL 2024. And…

Tagore and Cricket

Brajaranjan Ray, the pioneer of sports writing in Bengali, once recounted his experience of having met…

The impromptu interview that spoke volumes of Sindhu the person

Team RevSportz is in Bengaluru today and tomorrow for a series of shoots. And one of…

Running into Sir Roger Bannister in Oxford ahead of the 2012 London Olympics

July 2012. The Oxford summer morning kept its word: rain playing hide and seek, the English…