Author: Rahul Giri

-Boria Majumdar It was just a few weeks after she had Izhaan and Sania was yet to shed off the baby weight. Making it back to competitive tennis was light years away and with nothing left to prove to anyone, it was tough to imagine she would give it one more shot and attempt one final comeback. But that’s Sania. Destinies child who loved to defy the odds. Shedding 26 kilos in a matter of months, her comeback was for all mothers than simply for herself. “Yes it was a way of telling every woman that motherhood isn’t the end…

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-Boria Majumdar Mohammed Siraj carrying the Indian flag around the Gabba and the entire team marching behind him in January 2021 is one of the most enduring picture postcards in the history of Indian cricket. In this one instant, he had ceased to be a Muslim or a Hindu. His religion did not matter. He had been appropriated and consumed by the vision of Indianness that we all believe in and credit must go to Ajinkya Rahane, Rohit Sharma and the entire team for giving us this moment to cherish. They had demonstrated to one and all their secular credentials…

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-Mohsin Kamal  This season, as many as 21 players from Jammu and Kashmir made it to the final player list for the Indian Premier League (IPL) auctions and some of them got picked. This means that five players from the region will play in IPL 2023 — Umran Malik, Abdul Samad, Vivrant Sharma, Avinash Singh and Yuhdvir Singh. It suggests that there is no dearth of talent in J&K. But is the talent limited to men’s cricket? No. There is plenty of talent in women’s cricket as well. Although J&K’s women’s team hasn’t done well enough in the BCCI’s domestic…

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