A summer to remember for Indian athletes

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Editor's note: The month gone by was an object lesson in the value of examining a proposition from all angles before saying “yes”. When Pradip Saha of The Morning Context first proposed that I should write a monthly newsletter on sport, I thought: Perfect. I don’t have to chase headlines; I don’t have to write in that moment when adrenaline swamps the mind and heart, and calm consideration is impossible. Instead, I can process, assimilate, go deep. Valid, all of that. What I did not consider, though, is the antithesis: that in sport, great events pile one on another in a headlong rush with no consideration for long lead times and extended deadlines; therefore, a thoughtful piece that might resonate a week after an event will become the writing equivalent of mouldy bread when you write a month later. With the result that when you finally sit down to write, you consider landmark events, each a stirring story in itself, and find you have to reject them all because time and opportunity have passed you by. Like the story of Jyothi Yarraji, …