Ishidrita Lahiri
speaker
18 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 17 Feb
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I interviewed Smriti Mandhana a few days ago, and she was telling me that it's almost surreal that women's cricket has come to this point in India.
And she was telling me how when she was younger, she grew up practicing against male cricketers.
And now for women's cricket to be at a point where women's cricketers are getting advertisements at a certain point in time was only what you'd associate with the male cricketers.
And this particular award is important because
There aren't many awards which are for sportswomen in India.
It is an uphill journey even now.
If I could just give you an example, I was speaking to one of our jury members, Anju Bobby George, India's premier athletes.
And she was telling me that in her sports academy, which is supposed to be one of the best in India and very difficult to get into, she often gets requests from younger female players.
and from their parents to drop out from the academy so that they can get married before they turn adults.
And to think that this could even happen in an elite sports academy really tells you how much Indian sports, especially for women, how much ground it still has to cover.
And, you know, it's very interesting because in India, if you are playing a certain kind of sports, whether you're a man or a woman,
it makes you eligible for government jobs.
So a lot of people in rural areas who probably do not have the means to make it big in sports, they just start out in sports so that they can get a government job.
And that just says that there's a lot of talent in India, but we still need that capital to come into Indian sports, especially for women, to make it big in the world state.
That was Ishidrita Lahiri.
You smell that?
What?
Napalm, son.
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