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Six Crowns, Nine-Year Wait: Can Nikita Porwal Win Miss World for India Tonight?
Six Crowns, Nine-Year Wait: Can Nikita Porwal Win Miss World for India Tonight?
6 min read
She won Miss India in 2024, waited nearly two years for the world stage and has already crowned her successor. Tonight in Vietnam, actor, playwright and tribal-rights advocate Nikita Porwal will attem ...
Forward With Caution
8 min read
The meeting between Ajit Doval and Wang Yi and Xi Jinping’s coming visit mark a thaw in bilateral ties but peace on the border remains elusive
Murphy’s Lens: From Kabul to Kolkata, Seamus Murphy makes every photograph an intimate encounter
5 min read
Murphy began taking photographs years before AI or Instagram and even the advent of digital photography. His work and news assignments have taken him around the world, tracking stories that made headl ...
Baap Ka, Dada Ka, Brands Ka: Has Wasseypur Become Digital India’s Sholay for Pop Culture?
8 min read
Bewakoof printed its dialogues on T-shirts. Bail Kolhu reunited its gang over mustard oil and pakoras. WazirX has brought Ramadhir Singh back to discipline crypto traders. Fourteen years after Anurag ...
Rewards of Resilience: India’s growth surges despite oil shocks, tariffs and a weak monsoon outlook
8 min read
Every time India posts good economic growth figures, artificial controversies—political in nature—mushroom almost instantaneously. This has happened since August 31 for the latest round of GDP data
How Free Is the Free Press?
12 min read
The Fourth Estate today serves as witness, prosecutor, judge, jury and executioner, falling a long way short of the standards expected in liberal democracies
Modi's message on terror
4 min read
Bhagwat’s Charm | No Count Is Good News | Gurugram Metro | Himalayan Caution | Unyielding Big Brother | A Hint From Wangchuk
The Silent Epidemic: Student suicides show mental health is a shared responsibility
3 min read
What India’s campuses need is a culture of compassion, transparency and empathy. Ultimately responsibility is shared: administrators, teachers, friends and families must work together to spot warni ...
Tim Cook: The creator’s builder
1 min read
He leaves as Apple CEO having turned it into a nearly $5 trillion company without the genius of Steve Jobs