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i have an answer to the boring pile of glamorous shit that is the Monaco F1 race. as everyone knows the order in which you qualify is the order in which you finish. give or take a couple of crashes. so its against the spirit of racing as much a spirit as it is.instead of having the race on sunday - it should be a bunch of qualifying sessions. lets say 3 quali sessions. 15 mins each with 10 mins in...
Money. It can buy you a race car and a spot at one of the most prestigious races. But you don’t got talent biatch.
I now get the reverence that this marque commands. These shapes, their sounds and their results are very seductive.
There is something revealing about the way adults protect certain rituals. Not because those rituals are important to the world, but because they quietly become important to who they are.Every Sunday morning across Indian cities, cricket grounds fill with people who have already lost the practical argument. They are no longer chasing selection, contracts, or recognition. Many have demanding career...
There’s a moment just before a race begins — those few seconds when everything goes quiet, even inside your own head. I found myself thinking about that silence more than the speed while reading Lights Out, Minds On by Priyanka Awasthi. Not the roar. Not the glamour. Just that fragile, almost invisible space where everything can either come together… or fall apart.That’s where this book lives.At f...
There’s a particular kind of strength that doesn’t shout. It sits quietly in the soil, in routine, in repetition—like a body learning to fall and rise on the same patch of earth every single day. That’s the feeling that stayed with me while reading Enter the Dangal: Travels through India's Wrestling Landscape by Rudraneil Sengupta. Not excitement. Not adrenaline. Something deeper. Something older....
Some victories are measured in seconds. Some in millimetres. And some… in the quiet, invisible battles no one ever sees.Reading A Shot at History: My Obsessive Journey to Olympic Gold and Beyond by Abhinav Bindra felt less like revisiting a celebrated moment in Indian sport and more like stepping inside a mind that refused to settle for anything less than absolute precision. Not perfection as an i...
Do you remember the first time you fell in love with a game — not for the glamour or the stars, but for the joy it brought to your sun-drenched afternoons and rainy-day daydreams? That’s exactly the feeling Ramachandra Guha evokes in The Commonwealth of Cricket. A celebrated historian best known for his deep dives into Indian politics and biographies of Gandhi, Guha steps away from the corridors o...
Have you ever caught a glimpse of someone from your past and felt your whole world pause for a second? That aching nostalgia, the warmth of memories, and the sting of what could have been? Love Before Cricket by Sanjay Mittal hits you with that kind of emotional punch—and keeps you hooked with a smile, a tear, and a whole lot of heart.I’ve read quite a few books that try to blend sports with roman...
