Kabir Gaba, Symbiosis Law School, Pune ABSTRACT The Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025 (“PROG Act”) and the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Rules, 2026 (“2026 Rules”) accomplished something that two decades of fragmented state gambling legislation, private member bills, and informal industry self- governance had not: they conferred statutory recognition on esports as a legitimate competitive sport and cleanly severed it from “online money gaming,” which the Act...