Weekend Reads “ To work with women, you need trust . You can be the biggest, sharpest, smartest brain in the game but with women, no trus...
Weekend Reads
- “To work with women, you need trust. You can be the biggest, sharpest, smartest brain in the game but with women, no trust means no response. What [Sjoerd] Marijne’s coaching has done to the women is give them the idea that they must make their own destiny. Empowerment is a loosely-used word but the progress of the women’s hockey team over the last three years, culminating in the Tokyo performance, is proof,” writes Sharda Ugra.
- Nitin Sharma tells us the story of the one-time dhaba cook who had a role to play in the training of Neeraj Chopra, who won India’s first gold medal in track and field on Saturday.
- Read Jonathan Selvaraj’s profile of Chopra, from before he won the medal: “Chopra is already the best Indian athlete of this generation by a distance – with gold medals at the Asian and Commonwealth Games. He’s good, really good. And in a couple of weeks’ time he could be great.”
- With services like Swiggy and Zomato, “the ‘customer is king’ motto stretched to its limits – lightning-fast deliveries; outrageous discounts; premium perks, pandering to them on social media – has resulted in the invisibilisation of an entire community of people who form the backbone of...Read more
