Sneha Sharma - racer by passion, pilot by profession

For a girl to pick up a tennis racquet and to want to be a professional—it was unheard of, Sania Mirza says. People thought it was a joke. Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY GREG WOOD / AFP / Getty On the last day of August, Sania Mirza, currently the No. 1 ...

Despite the episodic nature of the narrative, Mirza's story follows two distinct threads. IMRAN MIRZA was in a chatty mood on the evening of July 4, 1993. He and his family were spending the summer vacation with his uncle in Bengaluru. Watching ...

(Clockwise from top left) Rajeev Ram, Venus Williams, Rohan Bopanna and Sania Mirza Aug. 27: An Indian won a silver medal in the just-concluded Olympics and India lost. For that reason, perhaps, 32-year-old Rajeev Ram's silver in tennis went ...

By Sania Mirza with Imran Mirza and Shivani Gupta Rs 499 Rs 499 There are some tight forehands, funny faults, long rallies, plenty of volleys and a couple of break points as Sania Mirza serves Ace Against Odds to chronicle on as well as off-court events from ...

The 2016 Olympic Games will kick-start in Rio de Janeiroon 5 August. The 28th edition of the Games will see 10,500 athletes from 206 National Olympic Committees, including nations like Kosovo and South Sudan, who will make their debut. The ...

Indian women's hockey players pose for a picture with Sania Mirza at the Rio Olympic Games Village. Twitter Highlights Rio de Janeiro: Dope scandals marred what was turning out to be a euphoric build-up but India's biggest ever contingent ...

After Sakshi Malik and PVSindhu broke India's duck at Rio,, it was as usual social media that supplied us the axiom of the moment. It's not just the groceries now. We have to go get medals as well, went one joke. But why are we surprised that it ...

Imran Mirza had a plan. He bought a second-hand Maruti 1000 in Mumbai and drove it to Guntur, a populous, hilly town in Andhra Pradesh, where a maverick mechanic replaced the petrol engine with one that ran on diesel. The whole operation, change of ...

P V Sindhu and Sakshi Malik did not just win medals at Rio Olympics and won hearts of millions of Indians, the two of them are also trending on internet and has made up to the list of most searched Indian athletes on Google. The recent release also ...