
Autorickshaw Year
Sports & Management Research Institute (SMRI) is celebrating 2025 as International Autorickshaw Year to enhance autorickshaw drivers’ quality of work and life by using sports science know-how. The celebrations will begin on 12 January 2025, the 30th anniversary of the Tamil movie ‘BAASHA’ release. In this movie superstar Rajnikant portrays the character of an autodriver. […]


Mind Your Work Mind Your Life
Biju, an experienced branch manager of a leading public sector bank committed suicide at his workplace recently due to extreme work pressure. Anna Sebastian Perayil, an employee of a leading MNC tragically lost her life at the age of 25 due to extreme work stress. These two tragedies warn our community to ‘mind our work […]

Sporty Santa
Sporty Santa is a campaign initiated by the Sports Psychology Department of the Sports & Management Research Institute (SMRI) to create awareness of the bad effects of stereotyping in society and personal life and to break all kinds of negative stereotyping. We Indians believe that Indians like only cricket. Today majority of Indians like only […]

Holy Grace Sports Academy
PLAYGROUND OF SUPER CHAMPIONS Holy Grace Sports Academy is a world-class multi-sports academy that aims to create world-class sports stars from India in various sports such as football, boxing, swimming, water polo, volleyball, basketball and sports climbing. Holy Grace Sports Academy is different from the traditional sports academies of India in many ways. Students who […]

SPEED (S)KILLS- To Tackle Street Racing
The rising number of deaths and severe injuries due to illegal motorbike races and stunts is a social problem now. Banning superbikes will not prevent or reduce illegal bike racing and bike stunts. Youth will alter the bikes for more speed. It will cause more crimes and casualties. Illegal racing of autorickshaws with altered engines […]