An open letter to the sports minister
Dear Shri Rathore, Congratulations for a successful showing at the Commonwealth
By Ashwini Nachappa May 27, 2018
Columns
- Sachidananda Murthy
- Mani Shankar Aiyar
- Sanjaya Baru
- Anuja Chauhan
- Bose Krishnamachari
- Barkha Dutt
- Lakshmy Ramanathan
- Prasannan
- Meenakshi Lekhi
- Anita Pratap
- Shobhaa De
- Shashi Tharoor
- Sanjay Manjrekar
- M.K Bhadrakumar
- Vinod Rai
- Ashwini Nachappa
- Geeti Sen
- Vandana Kohli
- Sadhguru
- Gen Bikram Singh
- Manu Chandra
- Sanjna Kapoor
- Jerry Pinto
- Saina Nehwal
- Nandita Das
- Sania Mirza
- Bala Ambati
- Maroof Raza
- Ajish P Joy
- Mallika Sarabhai
- Amjad Ali Khan
- Hemant Oberoi
- Binayak Sen
- Patrick French
- Nupur Sharma
- Derek O Brien
- Sourav Ganguly
Guest Column
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Unreal growth
By Prof N.R. Bhanumurthy September 30, 2018 -
Why they want to kill me
By K.S. Bhagavan August 12, 2018 -
Joint effort
By Dr Yash Gulati July 15, 2018 -
Why mammograms are safe
By Dr Mukta Mahajan June 03, 2018 -
It is our responsibility
By Jose Louies June 03, 2018 -
Allow captive cultivation of cannabis
By DR Ram Vishwakarma May 20, 2018 -
50 plus? Take care of your bones
By Dr Jatin Talwar & Dr Gaurav P. Bhardwaj May 13, 2018 -
Data protection rules and 2019 elections
By Kamlesh Bajaj April 22, 2018
Ashwini Nachappa
A former athlete, Nachappa is actively involved in social work and is an educationist, too. She is also part of Clean Sports India organisation. An Arjuna Award winner, Nachappa was referred to as India’s 'Flo Jo'. She has also acted in a few Telugu films.
TRACK CHANGE
Salute the surge!
Picture this. A young girl in lane six at the start of the semifinals of the 400m
By Ashwini Nachappa May 13, 2018
Unmasking our real nature
In school, we had moral science as a subject. Right and wrong, good and bad, ethics
By Ashwini Nachappa April 15, 2018
The waning of nationalism
I was brought up with a deep feeling of being Indian, as were many in my generation
By Ashwini Nachappa April 01, 2018
Sportsmen need a safety net
Kumar (name changed) is a 16-year-old promising hurdler. He has been training at
By Ashwini Nachappa March 18, 2018
Khelo India khelo!
The recently concluded Khelo India School Games threw up some remarkable
By Ashwini Nachappa March 04, 2018
Deconstructing Federer
Spoiler alert! This article is from an unabashed fan of Roger Federer, whose
By Ashwini Nachappa February 18, 2018
Another wasted mandate?
In 1984, Rajiv Gandhi won a landslide victory riding the Indira sympathy wave. The
By Ashwini Nachappa February 04, 2018
70 years of rajas and ranis
India is an idea that is 70 years old. An idea that was founded around the principles of democracy...
By Ashwini Nachappa January 07, 2018
The anti-national bully
Nobody is above the law. It applies in equal measure to all. But, in our country, this is far from that...
By Ashwini Nachappa December 10, 2017
Sparking the football revolution
There has been much positivity around the ongoing FIFA Under-17 World Cup. It is great to see Indian...
By Ashwini Nachappa October 29, 2017
The maya of success
What was hoped to be a dream sign-off to Usain Bolt’s remarkable career ended in a whimper. He finished...
By Ashwini Nachappa October 15, 2017
Rooting for Rathore
Dear Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Congratulations! It has taken various governments 70 years to do the...
By Ashwini Nachappa October 01, 2017
In the zone
The Sindhu versus Okuhara final at the BWF World Championships was epic, one that was comparable to the...
By Ashwini Nachappa September 17, 2017
Doping our way to failure
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) listed India as the world’s third worst offender in 2014 and 2015....
By Ashwini Nachappa August 27, 2017