For any employee, 15 months of working in an organisation is long enough time to talk about it, what it stands for, what its goals are, and what it has achieved. Having begun my journey with RevSportz in September 2023, a few weeks before the Asian Games in Hangzhou, it was a new experience. There were some well-meaning folks who said joining a start-up would be a wrong decision. Not that I cared, since I had earlier, in 2007, made the shift from a big broadsheet to a start-up tabloid. It was seen as a mindless decision due to the risk factors. That the newspaper shut down during the Covi-19 pandemic was proof that not all start-ups pack up, since it had been in the market for 13 years.
The big challenge for me when joining RevSportz was adapting to the needs of a digital platform. It required a quick change in mindset and reacting as fast as possible to news and views, which was easy. Where the voyage got more interesting at RevSportz was when stepping into YouTube shows in English and Hindi, attempting to do video interviews and being as energetic as someone in their late 20s while covering the Paris 2024 Olympics. It was challenging and, at the same time, rewarding, since I did new things which I thought I was uncapable of at my fifth Olympics.
This piece is not about me, but RevSportz and how it will turn 3 on December 1, 2024. I would request people in the market to stop calling it a ‘baby’. This toddler has grown manifold, and challenges established platforms, while even forcing some to rethink how they can reinvent themselves. And that will not be easy, since RevSportz is not just a website. Yes, there is a website which can be read and noticed. To produce content in the form of video interviews (videos) and integrate it with multiple social media platforms in real time has been defining for RevSportz. That has also given regular TV channels a run for their money.
Indeed, the presence of a sports platform in English, Hindi and Bangla is no mean feat. What RevSportz has done in these three years is no fluke. Getting sponsors and investors on board is just one part. To have the vision to create new paths, and break the monotony – full credit to Boria Majumdar and his wife. It requires thinking and working 24x7x365, and leading from the front. I salute the energy and enthusiasm of the editor-in-chief. He has made life miserable for rival platforms, and ensured others follow a template which RevSportz has set. And I say this after watching what unfolded at two big events, the Asian Games in Hangzhou and the Paris 2024 Olympics. Of course, what RevSportz did at the Paralympics was standout.
Cricket is the easiest sport to cover and write on. The challenge is to write, report and do video interviews on Olympic sports and more unconventional games as well, chess included. The digital world speaks for what RevSportz has achieved, in terms of archives that can be searched on Google. As a senior citizen in the real sense, working for RevSportz, I can predict that the coming years will see a further rise of this ‘baby’ which will blow out three candles on December 1.
Last but not least, for Boria to give youngsters a chance to travel abroad and prove themselves is awesome. Sports editors and editors in several organisations of which I have been part of have either behaved like misers, or sent some glamorous anchor to cover cricket, who would not know the difference between a cricket ball and a hockey one!
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