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Syed Abdul Rahim's 4-2-4 and the transformation of Indian football

The visionary coach of Indian football’s golden age leaves an enduring legacy that continues to inspire.

Aswathy Santhosh17 Aug 2024 4:18 AM GMT

Chandu Champion: What makes this sports biopic work

Early feedback hails the realism in the depiction of sporting sequences in the film.

Rahul Kargal14 Jun 2024 3:07 PM GMT

Eclipsed brilliance, fabricated football: Prasanta Sinha, a mindless...

Reacting to Maidaan, Sinha's daughter Sonali told The Bridge it is 'painful to watch the movie and see my father on the...

Syed Tawsif Ahmed21 April 2024 12:11 PM GMT

Maidaan - The story of Syed Abdul Rahim and India's 1962 Asian Games...

Maidaan, the historical biography narrated the story of SA Rahim, played by Ajay Devgan, whose ability to adapt to...

Sudipta Biswas12 April 2024 1:43 PM GMT

Salgaocar FC's bittersweet goodbye - Fall of a Goan giant

Salgaocar FC (1956-2023) shutting down marked the end of an era in Indian football. Former players, fans and football...

Aswathy Santhosh9 July 2023 12:09 PM GMT

Indian tennis legend who played mischief with Gandhi - Jaidip Mukerjea

Jaidip Mukerjea is well known as a tennis legend from a bygone era. But he is also one of the few people who had the...

Rahul Mukherji6 July 2023 6:42 AM GMT

Tulsidas Balaram: The reclusive yet talkative person no one knew

Tulsidas Balaram may have carried a deep hurt at not getting his due recognition in Indian football, but he never spoke...

Rajdeep Saha18 March 2023 11:48 AM GMT

A ghost of the past, World Cup captain Kuntala Ghosh Dastidar ignores...

Even as India celebrates foreign icons from the 2022 FIFA World Cup, an Indian World Cup captain goes about her days in...

Rajdeep Saha18 Dec 2022 1:13 PM GMT

Prompted by wrong news, Chetan Baboor looks back on a pathbreaking...

As media reports on Manika Batra showed, Table Tennis flag bearer from the 1990s - Chetan Baboor - has almost been...

Dipankar Lahiri25 Nov 2022 1:13 PM GMT

India's first woman Olympian not forgotten in Aldona

Mary D'Souza, Asia's fastest woman in the 1950s, was one of India's first batch of women Olympians. But while the rest...

Dipankar Lahiri25 July 2022 5:23 AM GMT

A.F.S. Talyarkhan: The voice of Indian cricket who pioneered today's...

Many voices have made their mark in Indian cricket commentary, but the voice that is distinctly remembered even today is...

C.C. Chengappa7 May 2022 10:48 AM GMT

Meet shuttler Rajeev Bagga - An Arjuna awardee and Deaflympian of the...

Despite mistreatment at the hands of Indian sports administrators, Rajeev Bagga performed at the highest level and was...

C.C. Chengappa30 April 2022 8:01 AM GMT

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