Game Play Sport with Rahul, Arvind, and Kailash
Radio Azim Premji UniversityFrom gully cricket to gym bros, fan meltdowns to vanishing playgrounds—Game Play Sport unpacks how India plays, pauses, and powers through.
Hosted by Rahul De and Arvind Bharathi BN from Azim Premji University, and Kailash Koushik from Christ University, this new series explores how our ideas of game, play, and sport are evolving. What do they mean in today’s India? Who gets to participate, and ho... more
| Publishes | Twice monthly | Episodes | 13 | Founded | 9 months ago |
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| Categories | SportsSociety & Culture | ||||
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Is India chasing the right dream when it comes to sports — or have we lost our way?
In this explosive finale of Game Play Sport on Radio Azim Premji University, our 3 sports hosts Rahul De, Arvind Bharathi B N & Kailash Kaushik take on ten outspoke... more
India competes across the world — at the Olympics, Asian Games, Commonwealth Games, and countless individual tournaments — with delegations far smaller than its population and talent pool suggest. The real issue isn’t performance. It’s the harsh, une... more
India is home to over half a billion gamers — from PUBG to Valorant, from mobile cricket to FIFA — yet still struggles to find its footing in the global esports arena. In this episode of Game Play Sport, Aravind, Kailash, and Rahul sit down with Ram ... more
Dream11’s fall has reignited a major debate in India’s gaming world — is it skill or gambling?
With the new Online Gaming Act 2025 being passed, the government is redrawing boundaries around real money gaming, raising crucial questions for players, ... more
Are We Killing the Joy of Play? Are we pushing kids too hard, too soon? In this episode of Game Play Sport, Arvind, Kailash and Rahul talk with Chelston Pinto about why India’s sports education system needs more unstructured play and age-appropriate ... more
From Brute Force to AI Models: How Chess Learned to Play Smarter
In 1997, the chess world shook when Garry Kasparov lost to IBM’s Deep Blue — a brute-force machine built to calculate millions of moves per second. Fast forward to today, and AI has mo... more
Where Will Children Play? The Future of Indian Sport Across Indian cities, children are running out of places to play. Grounds are being built over, parks restrict ball games, and schools often skip playgrounds altogether. At the same time, private a... more
In this episode of Game Play Sport, we dive into the evolving story of India’s sports pay gap—how the difference in salaries and prize money between male and female athletes is finally starting to close. From the BCCI’s landmark equal pay announcemen... more
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