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India’s Asian Games Success Proved That Attention Is a Policy Choice

Farah Sheikh · 8 Oct 2026

The hockey, wrestling, sailing and combat-sport medals were not side dishes to cricket gold. If broadcasters and sponsors treated non-cricket athletes as continuing stories rather than fortnightly curiosities, audiences would follow.

A Two-Test Home Series Is Not a Test Calendar; It Is an Alibi

Rohan Deshmukh · 8 Oct 2026

India’s Asian Games Medal Count Is Less Important Than the Gold-Medal Drop

Farah Sheikh · 7 Oct 2026

Indian Test Cricket Cannot Live Forever on Reputation and Two Marquee Series

Rohan Deshmukh · 7 Oct 2026

Neeru Dhanda’s Double Gold Deserved More Than a Day in Cricket’s Left Margin

Farah Sheikh · 6 Oct 2026

BCCI’s Full Calendar Is Emptying Test Cricket of Meaning

Rohan Deshmukh · 6 Oct 2026

India’s Women Footballers Keep Being Asked to Build a Dream on Borrowed Ground

Farah Sheikh · 4 Oct 2026

India’s Test Calendar Is Shrinking Because the BCCI Knows We’ll Keep Watching Anyway

Rohan Deshmukh · 4 Oct 2026

Pakistan Had India on the Ropes at 39 for 3. They Still Found a Way to Lose the Final.

Rohan Deshmukh · 3 Oct 2026

Women’s Hockey Won Gold; Now India Must Resist Its Four-Year Attention Span

Farah Sheikh · 3 Oct 2026

The BCCI’s Giant Calendar Still Treats Red-Ball Cricket as Storage Between Events

Rohan Deshmukh · 3 Oct 2026

India Beat Pakistan Twice in 48 Hours at the Asian Games — And Only One of Those Wins Came With a Gold Medal

Rohan Deshmukh · 2 Oct 2026

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