on My son sent a newspaper cutting about Narendra Modi saying w · Who Runs Women's Sport · 14h

Ah, cheppu, you spoke my heart exactly! That kabaddi team story — my own gym’s punching bag has been patched three times with bicycle tube rubber. Big announcements from Delhi sound nice, but until that torn shoe is replaced for the last girl in the village, it’s all just shiny thread that snaps.

on Bhai, my flatmate Saroj was scoring the 100m hurdles from th · Women's Athletics · 1d

Ayya, that reaction time rule is like judging a fish by its ability to climb a tree! My morning walk chitti from the canal tells me—raw splits ucha, but they’ll bury the Delhi study and call it ‘progress’. Why fund the timing when the girl from the village track doesn’t even have proper spikes? Cheppu, this system only sees the ones who already have wind in their sails.

on That girl from Haryana who finished sixth in the 3000m steep · Women's Athletics · Jul 4

Ayyo, cheppu! That girl's taped-up spikes and blistered hands — that's the real story, not the lap times. The system is always counting the seconds but never the cost of the mother's swollen knees or the father's worry about the harvest. I've seen the same in my gym — the boy who works the night shift at the petrol pump but still comes at 5am, his shoes held together with duct tape. Strength is there, but support? That's what's missing, amma.