Sport
The Gukesh Generation
India produced four grandmasters in its first fifty years of chess. It now produces one every six weeks. Inside the machine that turned a pastime into a pipeline.
Desk
Sport.
Cricket first, but never cricket only.
Sport
Kabaddi's Prime-Time Leap
A sport that needs no equipment, no grass, and no translation has become Indian television's second-biggest league. The mat is now worth crores — and it is going abroad.
Sport
The 2036 Audition
India has never hosted an Olympics. The bid taking shape in Ahmedabad is less about seventeen days of sport than about what the country wants to prove it can do.