Kabaddi
Asian Games 2026 Kabaddi Semifinals: India Men Face Thailand, Women Face Nepal
The Seven Seconds Before a Do-or-Die Raid: Inside Bangladesh Kabaddi's Culture of Counting
37–34: The Final That Hasn't Been Played, and the Scoreline That Doesn't Add Up
India's Two Wins, but the Real Question Sits in Defence and in Iran
The Mymensingh Mirage: Kabaddi's Real Infrastructure Before the Dhaka SemifinalIn a district-level kabaddi tournament in Mymensingh, I first saw real kabadd...
With Asian Games Champions Rested, Commonwealth Championship to Test India’s BenchHook: The Silence After Gold After defeating Iran 40-34 to win India’s ninth...
Commonwealth Kabaddi in Ahmedabad: The Question Buried Under Thirteen FlagsI watched Neeraj Chopra's 85.23 metres from a Chennai studio in 2026, on an...
The Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship Has No 14-Nation List, But India Dropping All 12 Asian Games Gold Medalists Is the Real StoryThe Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship announcement was supposed to include a...
Kabaddi Champions League Expands to 10 Teams: From Haryana's Village Akhadas to a Franchise MarketThe Kabaddi Champions League, a Haryana-based semi-professional kabaddi...
Asian Games 2026 Kabaddi Semifinals: India Men Face Thailand, Women Face NepalIntroduction: A Big Story Hidden Inside a Broadcast Guide The 2026 Asian Game...
The Seven Seconds Before a Do-or-Die Raid: Inside Bangladesh Kabaddi's Culture of CountingThe clay of the court is warm at midday. Five or six men stand beyond the...
The Half-Second on the Mat: Why Bangladesh and India Produce Different Kabaddi Players from the Same Raw TalentThe sound of a foot dragging across the mat is the only scoreboard that...
Kabaddi: From the Fields of Bangladesh's National Game to the Professional ArenaOn a winter afternoon, a vacant field beside a paddy field in rural Banglades...
48–25 Looks Clean — But India’s Real Question Got Left on the Bonus LineThe electronic scoreboard inside the Tokai Citizens Gymnasium in Aichi-Nagoya...
37–34: The Final That Hasn't Been Played, and the Scoreline That Doesn't Add Up37–34. Two numbers on either side of a scoreboard, and the sum refuses to...
Unbeaten Is Not Protection: India's Kabaddi Examination at Aichi-Nagoya 2026In 2026, at the Jakarta Asian Games, India lost a men's kabaddi semifinal. I...
The 22.4-Point Average Margin: What Day 1 of the Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship 2026 Never Called ThrillingAhmedabad's Veer Savarkar Sports Complex. Five matches done on Day 1, and I...
Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship 2026: India's Captaincy Announcement and the Invisible Crisis of KabaddiKabaddi is a game where stopping means you're out. A raider must enter the...
India's Two Wins, but the Real Question Sits in Defence and in IranChalk lines on the court floor, a stopwatch in hand, and one unbroken chant o...
Resting the Gold Squad in Ahmedabad: India's 'Strongest Team' Is Really a Third-Raid TestIndia beat Iran 40–34 in the Asian Games final. The scoreline reads like a...
Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship 2026: AKFI Builds New Squad Excluding Asian Games Gold MedalistsThe Amateur Kabaddi Federation of India (AKFI) has announced a preliminary li...
Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship 2026: A 17-Name Probables List, Twelve Missing Stars — And The Question Nobody Is AskingOn the floor of an Ahmedabad hall, the last ten days of October — the...
Asian Games 2026 Women's Kabaddi Final: The Tactical Anatomy of India vs Iran, a Three-Point Golden Margin, and an Unfinished System LedgerEarly in the second half. Iran had forced an All Out and dragged the gap down...
From Manga to the Mat: The Arithmetic Inside Japan's Kabaddi DreamFor the past few weeks one number keeps resurfacing in my notebook — 62-35....
Six Frames on the Mat: How India Won the Asian Games Kabaddi Golden Double, and What the Grid Is Still HidingI had the men's final from the Tokai Citizen Gymnasium paused on my laptop....
With Asian Games Champions Rested, Commonwealth Championship to Test India’s BenchHook: The Silence After Gold After defeating Iran 40-34 to win India’s ninth...
Commonwealth Kabaddi in Ahmedabad: The Question Buried Under Thirteen FlagsI watched Neeraj Chopra's 85.23 metres from a Chennai studio in 2026, on an...
The Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship Has No 14-Nation List, But India Dropping All 12 Asian Games Gold Medalists Is the Real StoryThe Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship announcement was supposed to include a...
Kabaddi Champions League Expands to 10 Teams: From Haryana's Village Akhadas to a Franchise MarketThe Kabaddi Champions League, a Haryana-based semi-professional kabaddi...
Asian Games 2026 Kabaddi Semifinals: India Men Face Thailand, Women Face NepalIntroduction: A Big Story Hidden Inside a Broadcast Guide The 2026 Asian Game...
The Seven Seconds Before a Do-or-Die Raid: Inside Bangladesh Kabaddi's Culture of CountingThe clay of the court is warm at midday. Five or six men stand beyond the...
The Half-Second on the Mat: Why Bangladesh and India Produce Different Kabaddi Players from the Same Raw TalentThe sound of a foot dragging across the mat is the only scoreboard that...
Kabaddi: From the Fields of Bangladesh's National Game to the Professional ArenaOn a winter afternoon, a vacant field beside a paddy field in rural Banglades...
48–25 Looks Clean — But India’s Real Question Got Left on the Bonus LineThe electronic scoreboard inside the Tokai Citizens Gymnasium in Aichi-Nagoya...
37–34: The Final That Hasn't Been Played, and the Scoreline That Doesn't Add Up37–34. Two numbers on either side of a scoreboard, and the sum refuses to...
Unbeaten Is Not Protection: India's Kabaddi Examination at Aichi-Nagoya 2026In 2026, at the Jakarta Asian Games, India lost a men's kabaddi semifinal. I...
The 22.4-Point Average Margin: What Day 1 of the Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship 2026 Never Called ThrillingAhmedabad's Veer Savarkar Sports Complex. Five matches done on Day 1, and I...
Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship 2026: India's Captaincy Announcement and the Invisible Crisis of KabaddiKabaddi is a game where stopping means you're out. A raider must enter the...
India's Two Wins, but the Real Question Sits in Defence and in IranChalk lines on the court floor, a stopwatch in hand, and one unbroken chant o...
Resting the Gold Squad in Ahmedabad: India's 'Strongest Team' Is Really a Third-Raid TestIndia beat Iran 40–34 in the Asian Games final. The scoreline reads like a...
Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship 2026: AKFI Builds New Squad Excluding Asian Games Gold MedalistsThe Amateur Kabaddi Federation of India (AKFI) has announced a preliminary li...
Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship 2026: A 17-Name Probables List, Twelve Missing Stars — And The Question Nobody Is AskingOn the floor of an Ahmedabad hall, the last ten days of October — the...
Asian Games 2026 Women's Kabaddi Final: The Tactical Anatomy of India vs Iran, a Three-Point Golden Margin, and an Unfinished System LedgerEarly in the second half. Iran had forced an All Out and dragged the gap down...
From Manga to the Mat: The Arithmetic Inside Japan's Kabaddi DreamFor the past few weeks one number keeps resurfacing in my notebook — 62-35....
Six Frames on the Mat: How India Won the Asian Games Kabaddi Golden Double, and What the Grid Is Still HidingI had the men's final from the Tokai Citizen Gymnasium paused on my laptop....