For many businessmen, the driving force seems to be ego as much as political influence.
Politicians, real estate, chit funds and large corporations now have deep stakes in the majority of the news TV business in most Indian states.
Is a successful London 2012 possible for India? Or will a sports culture remain an illusion with India not bothering to look beyond cricket and turning into a multi sporting nation?
Until the early 1980s, cricket was not the most pre-eminent Indian game. It was popular but hockey was the ‘national game’ and soccer was equally popular in large parts of the country. What happened?
To Sir Dorab Tata goes the credit of starting systematic Olympic activity on Indian soil in 1920
The YMCA's early role in the Indian Olympic movement cannot be emphasized enough. Its national network provided a lifeline for those who wanted to set up a national sporting movement.
Nothing epitomizes the early battles between Indian sport administrators better than the case of Indian cycling in the 1950s.
Between 1928 and 1956, India won six straight Olympic gold medals and 24 consecutive matches, a record likely to stand for the foreseeable future
Dhyan Chand scored 14 of India's 29 goals in Amsterdam.
Berlin Olympics of 1936 finally put to rest the question mark against India's hockey supremacy. Exclusive extracts from this meticulously researched book show the role of Captain Dhyan Chand and Indian Nationalism in the Third Reich...
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