Ep 238: The State of Indian Sport
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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The Indian Sports Manager, Is a Product of Two Thousand Five, Six, Seven, Eight
Sport was seen as a way of socially distancing yourself from sort of the plebeians, to show that you were anglicized and cool for the time. But when we went to sort of independent india, we used a slightly different model. So much of our introstructure, even to day, in many of these sports, like golf, are actually locked up behind members clubs. Andnd, there is very much a sort of a class system, which is not fully dissipated. I think one of the great joys and successes is to see even the indian cricket team and how it has got democratized.
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