Game Play Sport with Rahul, Arvind, and Kailash
Game Play Sport is a show that explores how India understands game, play, and sport—and what those distinctions reveal about our culture, priorities, and access to movement. Play is spontaneous, creative, and unstructured. A game has rules. Sport brings competition, performance, and often prestige. But in real life, these lines blur — and where they do, they expose deeper questions about who gets to participate, and why so many are left out.
The show is hosted by Rahul De, Associate Professor, School of Arts and Sciences, Azim Premji University; Kailash Koushik, Assistant Professor, Department of Media Studies, Christ University; and Arvind Bharathi BN, Assistant Professor, School of Arts and Sciences, Azim Premji University. As educators and sports enthusiasts, they bring both lived experience and critical inquiry into how we play, why we stop, and what play means in the Indian context today.
In India, sport is more visible than ever — on screens, in brands, and in policies like the National Education Policy, which calls for integrating play into education. But on the ground, access is limited by class, caste, gender, and geography. Public grounds shrink. Coaching is expensive. And fitness becomes aspirational, not inclusive.
Game Play Sport explores these trends — from the multi-crore fitness boom to the invisibility of women in sport, the privatisation of infrastructure, and the emotional economy of fandom. It’s a show about how we move, who gets to play, and why that still depends on where we come from.
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