A student-led sports journalism outlet reporting on the games India plays — and the ones its cameras refuse to see.
India recognises more than thirty-five Olympic sports. Its broadcast schedule recognises roughly one. On any given day, an ordinary IPL rain delay receives more airtime than an entire kho-kho World Cup.
The absence isn't accidental. It's editorial.
This project is a student-led sports journalism outlet built around three underreported Indian sports — kho-kho, sepak takraw, and kabaddi. Every month, one anchor writes, edits, produces, and broadcasts a full multimedia package: original reporting, a media-airtime audit, a podcast, a broadcast-style video, and a final reporting portfolio.
The work is not neutral. It argues that coverage is a choice, and that a country's sporting imagination is shaped by whichever games it agrees to point a camera at.
Monthly, we sample broadcast minutes across India's four largest sports networks. The remaining sliver — ten percent — is split between more than thirty disciplines.
Every issue takes one sport off the margin and treats it the way cricket has always been treated: with reporters, editors, and airtime.
Nine chasers. One pole. Seven minutes.
A sprint sport disguised as tag. Kho-kho demands lung capacity, geometry, and nerve. In 2025 it got its first World Cup — and roughly the same broadcast footprint as a mid-season IPL toss update.
Volleyball, if the ball were fire and the feet were hands.
The bicycle-kick spike is the most cinematic act in world sport. India has a national team. You have almost certainly never seen them play on television.
One breath. One raid. Everything on the mat.
The Pro Kabaddi League proved the appetite. The audit shows the ceiling: even India's most successful non-cricket league gets a sliver of the coverage cricket receives on any random Tuesday.
The spike
“I’m not just a fan. I’m a media critic asking who decides what gets broadcast — and why.”
Long-form features filed from the field, not the feed.
A monthly quantitative log of who got minutes and who did not.
Voice interviews with athletes, coaches, and broadcast producers.
Anchor-desk segments in the visual grammar of the sports it critiques.
End-of-cycle bound report — a year of margins made central.