Kabaddi
Surjeet Singh Captain, Naveen Vice-Captain: The Real Commonwealth Championship Question Is Not 'Who' But 'Under Which Rulebook'2026-10-22The moment the Indian captaincy announcement for the Commonwealth Kabaddi...
Pakistan's Last-Minute Walkover: The Real Kabaddi Story in Ahmedabad Is in the Files, Not on the Mat2026-10-22On the morning of 23 October 2026, the men's draw sheet went up on a wall at...
Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship 2026: Surjeet Singh Captain, Naveen Kumar Vice-Captain — An Announcement Missing Half Its Story2026-10-22July 2026. I was the only woman in a Chennai press box, and Tamil Thalaivas'...
Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship 2026: Surjeet Singh Captain, Naveen Kumar Vice-Captain — And a Release That Contradicts Its Own Two Lines2026-10-22Hook: Three Pages, Two Photographs, and One Sentence That Flips the Whole...
Inaugural Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship in Ahmedabad: 62 Matches, 13 Nations — But Iran's Absence Is the Empty Column Nobody Is Filling2026-10-22I have an old habit that dates back to 2026. Whenever a kabaddi tournament is...
KabaddiInaugural Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship in Ahmedabad: 62 Matches, 13 Nations — But Iran's Absence Is the Empty Column Nobody Is FillingI have an old habit that dates back to 2026. Whenever a kabaddi tournament is...
KabaddiPakistan's Last-Minute Exit: The Ahmedabad Kabaddi Stage and the Story of an Empty ChairOn the morning of 23 October at the Veer Savarkar Sports Complex in Ahmedabad...
KabaddiSurjeet Singh Captain, Naveen Vice-Captain: The Real Commonwealth Championship Question Is Not 'Who' But 'Under Which Rulebook'The moment the Indian captaincy announcement for the Commonwealth Kabaddi...
KabaddiPakistan's Last-Minute Walkover: The Real Kabaddi Story in Ahmedabad Is in the Files, Not on the MatOn the morning of 23 October 2026, the men's draw sheet went up on a wall at...
KabaddiAhmedabad's Kabaddi Stage: A Commonwealth Step or an Olympic Illusion?In a hotel conference hall in Ahmedabad, the jersey, the logo and the mascot...
KabaddiCommonwealth Kabaddi Championship 2026: Surjeet Singh Captain, Naveen Kumar Vice-Captain — and the One Line in the Release That Doesn't Add UpTwo Sentences, One Impossible Equation The release for the Commonwealth Kabad...
KabaddiPakistan's Late Withdrawal Deflates Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship's 'Gold to Lose' Narrative, Leaving India Without a RivalThe news that Pakistan's men's team withdrew at the last minute from the...
KabaddiPakistan's Last-Minute Commonwealth Kabaddi Withdrawal Is a Story of Paperwork, Not Just SportAt the Veer Savarkar Sports Complex in Ahmedabad, as the ground was being...
KabaddiPakistan's Name Comes Off the Board in Ahmedabad: A 14-to-13 Table and the Kabaddi Questions the Scoreboard Never ShowsThe projector went quiet before the scoreboard did. On the wall of the media...
KabaddiFourteen to Thirteen: Pakistan Pulls Out, and the Price of an Ahmedabad Medal FallsFourteen to thirteen. The count fell by one, and the market for the inaugural...
KabaddiCommonwealth Kabaddi Championship 2026: Surjeet Singh Named Captain, Naveen Kumar Vice-Captain — And Everything the Announcement Leaves OutA press release carried twenty-four information points. Fourteen of them were...
KabaddiCommonwealth Kabaddi Championship 2026: Surjeet Singh Captain, Naveen Kumar Vice-Captain — An Announcement Missing Half Its StoryJuly 2026. I was the only woman in a Chennai press box, and Tamil Thalaivas'...
Kabaddi14 Opinions in 24 Points, Zero Data: The Surjeet Singh-Naveen Kumar Captaincy and the Three Unanswered Questions of the 2026 Commonwealth Kabaddi ChampionshipTwenty-four information points. Fourteen of them are the outlet's own opinion...
KabaddiCommonwealth Kabaddi Championship 2026: Surjeet Singh Captain, Naveen Kumar Vice-Captain — The Three Columns the Announcement Left BlankIn the third do-or-die raid, the captain picks who walks onto the mat — not t...
KabaddiCommonwealth Kabaddi Championship 2026: Surjeet Singh Captain, Naveen Kumar Vice-Captain — and the 'Back-to-Back' Puzzle Inside an Inaugural EventSurjeet Singh will captain. Naveen Kumar will be vice-captain. That is the...
KabaddiCommonwealth Kabaddi Championship 2026: Surjeet Singh Captain, Naveen Kumar Vice-Captain — An Announcement That Leaves Three QuestionsAt 7:04 the whistle blew, and I was sitting in a Mumbai studio with nothing b...
KabaddiCommonwealth Kabaddi Championship 2026: Surjeet Singh Captain, Naveen Kumar Vice-Captain — But the Real Question Is 'Under Which Rulebook?'At a press conference hall in Mumbai, when the captaincy was announced, Surje...
KabaddiCommonwealth Kabaddi Championship 2026: Surjeet Singh Captain, Naveen Kumar Vice-Captain — Notes from an Injury LedgerThe note arrived while I was looking at an old line in a paper ledger. 2026,...
KabaddiCommonwealth Kabaddi Championship 2026: Surjeet Singh Captain, Naveen Kumar Vice-Captain — And a Release That Contradicts Its Own Two LinesHook: Three Pages, Two Photographs, and One Sentence That Flips the Whole...
KabaddiSurjeet Singh Captain, Naveen Kumar Vice-Captain — And the Question About the 2026 Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship That the Press Release Never AsksThe press release had twenty-four points. I read it three times, because on t...
KabaddiCommonwealth Kabaddi Championship 2026: Surjeet Singh Captain, Naveen Kumar Vice-Captain — And the Seven Blank Lines in the Press ReleaseHook There is a page in my notebook that comes out at every tournament...