Kabaddi
Kabaddi Now Runs Two Scoreboards: One Counts Wins, the Other Counts Point Difference2026-09-26Four days of group-stage kabaddi closed with the same number written beside...
Thirteen Metres of Mat: India's Kabaddi Semifinals at the Asian Games, the Unbeaten Run, and the Questions the Scoreboard Never Records2026-09-25August 2026, Tokyo. I had already written it in my notebook before the javeli...
Asian Games 2026 Kabaddi: The Group Stage Grid, Four Semi-finalists and Bangladesh's Narrow Margin2026-09-26The Asian Games 2026 men's kabaddi group stage has concluded, producing four...
The 75-Minute Gap in Nagoya: Tape-Reading the Asian Games Kabaddi Semifinals2026-09-26I reverse-engineer matches like a mechanic reading a whiteboard. The scorelin...
Kabaddi Now Runs Two Scoreboards: One Counts Wins, the Other Counts Point DifferenceFour days of group-stage kabaddi closed with the same number written beside...
Asian Games 2026 Kabaddi: The Group Stage Grid, Four Semi-finalists and Bangladesh's Narrow MarginThe Asian Games 2026 men's kabaddi group stage has concluded, producing four...
The 75-Minute Gap in Nagoya: Tape-Reading the Asian Games Kabaddi SemifinalsI reverse-engineer matches like a mechanic reading a whiteboard. The scorelin...
When the Cant Breaks, the Raid Breaks: What India's Unbeaten Run Really Says Before the Asian Games SemifinalsThere is a moment on a kabaddi court that highlight packages never capture. T...
Asian Games 2026 Kabaddi Semifinals: Where the Word 'Unbeaten' Is Covering Up India's Real StoryThe autopsy starts where the applause stopped On the morning of September 25,...
Not 48-24 but That Second-Half Five: India Rout Nepal and Reach the FinalThe halftime buzzer at the Tokai Citizens Gymnasium left the board reading...
The Arithmetic of Three All-Outs: What the Scoreboard Hides in India's 48-24 Win Over NepalThe scoreboard at the interval read 31-17. My notebook had two lines: "Nepal ...
The Arithmetic of Margins: How Chinese Taipei Lost a Match and Still Won a Medal at Asian Games 2026The scoreboard in Nagoya read 37-21. India had won, Chinese Taipei had lost....
Unbeaten Is an Outcome, Not a Quality: Auditing the Asian Games Kabaddi SemifinalsIn Japan the clock says 1 p.m. In India it is 9:30 in the morning. India's me...
Margin as Fate: Bangladesh Missed the Semi-Final Bus, and Point Difference Decided ItOn the third day I opened a column in my notebook and wrote a single word at...
Unbeaten Is Not Unbeatable: India's Real Test in the Asian Games Kabaddi SemifinalsI did not grow up watching replays of Asian Games kabaddi finals. I grew up...
The Republic of Points Difference: Chinese Taipei Earned a Medal From a 37-21 Defeat, Bangladesh Went Out on ArithmeticChinese Taipei lost 37-21 to India. A sixteen-point margin, yet that defeat i...
Thirteen Metres of Mat: India's Kabaddi Semifinals at the Asian Games, the Unbeaten Run, and the Questions the Scoreboard Never RecordsAugust 2026, Tokyo. I had already written it in my notebook before the javeli...
Forty Minutes of Knockout: Why an 'Unbeaten' India Still Doesn't Know Its Real Semifinal OpponentThe autopsy starts where the applause stopped. On 25 September 2026, at the...
India 48-24 Nepal: The Scoreline Is Clean, the Data Is NotThe scoreboard read 31-17 before the first half closed. In the stands of the...
Asian Games 2026 Kabaddi: The Group Stage Grid, Four Semi-finalists and Bangladesh's Narrow MarginThe Asian Games 2026 men's kabaddi group stage has concluded, producing four...
The 75-Minute Gap in Nagoya: Tape-Reading the Asian Games Kabaddi SemifinalsI reverse-engineer matches like a mechanic reading a whiteboard. The scorelin...
When the Cant Breaks, the Raid Breaks: What India's Unbeaten Run Really Says Before the Asian Games SemifinalsThere is a moment on a kabaddi court that highlight packages never capture. T...
Asian Games 2026 Kabaddi Semifinals: Where the Word 'Unbeaten' Is Covering Up India's Real StoryThe autopsy starts where the applause stopped On the morning of September 25,...
Not 48-24 but That Second-Half Five: India Rout Nepal and Reach the FinalThe halftime buzzer at the Tokai Citizens Gymnasium left the board reading...
The Arithmetic of Three All-Outs: What the Scoreboard Hides in India's 48-24 Win Over NepalThe scoreboard at the interval read 31-17. My notebook had two lines: "Nepal ...
The Arithmetic of Margins: How Chinese Taipei Lost a Match and Still Won a Medal at Asian Games 2026The scoreboard in Nagoya read 37-21. India had won, Chinese Taipei had lost....
Unbeaten Is an Outcome, Not a Quality: Auditing the Asian Games Kabaddi SemifinalsIn Japan the clock says 1 p.m. In India it is 9:30 in the morning. India's me...
Margin as Fate: Bangladesh Missed the Semi-Final Bus, and Point Difference Decided ItOn the third day I opened a column in my notebook and wrote a single word at...
Unbeaten Is Not Unbeatable: India's Real Test in the Asian Games Kabaddi SemifinalsI did not grow up watching replays of Asian Games kabaddi finals. I grew up...
The Republic of Points Difference: Chinese Taipei Earned a Medal From a 37-21 Defeat, Bangladesh Went Out on ArithmeticChinese Taipei lost 37-21 to India. A sixteen-point margin, yet that defeat i...
Thirteen Metres of Mat: India's Kabaddi Semifinals at the Asian Games, the Unbeaten Run, and the Questions the Scoreboard Never RecordsAugust 2026, Tokyo. I had already written it in my notebook before the javeli...
Forty Minutes of Knockout: Why an 'Unbeaten' India Still Doesn't Know Its Real Semifinal OpponentThe autopsy starts where the applause stopped. On 25 September 2026, at the...
India 48-24 Nepal: The Scoreline Is Clean, the Data Is NotThe scoreboard read 31-17 before the first half closed. In the stands of the...