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It used to be more the case before....its changing now...slowly, but slow is better than nothing. Take just wrestling for example. I was looking at India in formative time I grew up in.....and they would send like a cpl of guys and come back with zilch. They got next to no coverage on...

Those bois at china lake are always up to something...

It wasn't Tirkey. It was another fella, less well known....Marathi iirc. Think literally just had couple years at most on the team. I forgot his name....might try look for it later. It's real simple, sports ecosystem cannot succeed without statist intervention. No one else will pick up the...

Bro that was the earlier era I speak of for sure....80s, 90s up to 2000s. I remember reading india today article back in the 90s about Dhanraj Pillay (since we haven't mentioned a Tamil yet here).... and that era of Indian hockey....he stood out when all else looked near entirely lost cause...

Haryana govt alone has now gifted nearly 1 million dollars to neeraj +land plot for support to own guru-shishya in state it looks like. Awards and recognition For winning the gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics ₹75 lakh (US$110,000) from the Government of India.[64] ₹6 crore...

Respect from the south... https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/realised-my-unfinished-dream-p-t-usha-congratulates-neeraj-chopra-2505183 BTW, there was also Pakistani javelin thrower I was keeping an eye on (Arshad Nadeem). Guy has bigger frame than Neeraj, and there would be more like him waiting...

Certainly Neeraj has one of best coaches out there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uwe_Hohn This is the kind of thing that simply didnt happen before.

Yes that's what I mean by preset advantages. The natural system in a state being somewhat aligned to what one can find in western (olympic) disciplines. This ties into things like Kabbadi not finding itself present in olympics yet (so India cannot even medal anywhere, even though its athletic...

Folks with too much ego and time on their hands....and no understanding of self-depricating humour be it 50 cent or winnie the pooh....given they have to parrot some monolith (when humankind very much operates on binaries as basic). They stand out easily as to the (bad principled) what and why...

Yup this is exactly the kind of thing more states have to do to unlock. North East has big role too to play, as mary Kom and Mirabai Chanu show. The village culture is one thing, but you need the vertical access to really grow the best to their top tier.

Yep specifically woke up in morning to watch it (and also the repechage bronze that bajrang won comfy just before it). Was great moment that will remain in my mind a long time. A real honour to see our flag and hear our anthem played in the main olympic stadium (for first time ever that I...

I'll get into that a bit later when I have bit more time.

Reading INA-US-PRC thread....lol In this forum we clearly have one (or maybe more than one) of the best CN folks to present their side. Spamming CCP propaganda threads (that no one reads), typical han supremacist blockheading, going in repeated circular logic like broken record when someone...

https://www.india.com/viral/tokyo-olympics-mirabai-chanu-rewards-truck-drivers-who-gave-her-free-lifts-during-training-days-humility-wins-hearts-see-tweets-4867970/

From certain perspective I agree with you. i.e situation inherited (constant whittling away by each admin to Art 370 scope to begin with)....Modi admin did final coup de grace you can say....shekhar ji refers to it as "jhatka" from time to time. But I am talking about the larger context...

You can take the altaic out of the steppe, but you cant take the steppe out of the altaic.

SLBM with ICBM range basically would be end goal. Gives many more options for deterrence patrol profiles.

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