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From Helen to Zeenat Aman: Why Bollywood’s rebellious women so often sounded like Asha Bhosle
From Helen to Zeenat Aman: Why Bollywood’s rebellious women so often sounded like Asha Bhosle
4 min read
She sang for the seductress, the cabaret dancer, the courtesan, the free spirit and the woman who simply refused to behave. Asha Bhosle didn’t just give Bollywood’s unconventional women a voice — she ...
COPPER PRICE RECORD EXPLAINED | America is Hoarding Today’s Metal Before AI Creates Tomorrow’s Shortage
11 min read
Copper has crossed $14,500 a tonne as US tariff fears pull metal into American warehouses and drain stocks elsewhere. The immediate scarcity may be manufactured. The coming squeeze from AI, power grid ...
The dark truth behind dark stores, and the hidden risk behind your 10-minute grocery order
4 min read
You tap, pay and wait for the doorbell. But somewhere before that 10-minute delivery, your groceries have to be stored, sorted, labelled and checked. Karnataka’s latest food-safety inspections have of ...
Naraaz Fufa, Sunil Babu & Sirji: Why Politics and Advertising Talk Like Family
5 min read
PM Modi has a disgruntled fufa. Asian Paints has Sunil Babu. Banking has Vigil Aunty. Across speeches, commercials and even Coke bottles, familiar relationships do some persuasive work
Toxic OTT rights crash | From ₹200 Crore to ₹30 Crore: Have streaming platforms stopped saving flop films?
11 min read
Yash’s Toxic reportedly rejected a ₹150-crore digital deal and hoped for ₹200 crore. After its box-office collapse, the available offer may be only ₹30 crore. As streamers replace star power with perf ...
Flood And Fury: Five days, no photos, no answers — Nepal’s endless search after the flood
11 min read
On the morning of August 26, a shard of the Langtang glacier broke off and thundered into the Trishuli valley, unleashing a tsunami from the sky that erased villages, bridges and highways within hours ...
From Mao to the Brahmaputra: Why China still believes nature can be conquered
3 min read
China’s construction craze in the mountains has increased the frequency of disasters downstream
Son of a legendary Manipuri musician, slain guitarist Chongtham Vikram was a child prodigy, revered mentor
3 min read
Chongtham Vikram, who was beaten to death in Delhi on Monday, had learnt guitar and accordion by age eight, pioneered western music in Manipur, worked with various bands back home and in Delhi and men ...
Bigg Boss, Big Loss: Snabbit Is Spending Like a Giant on ₹1.1 Cr Revenue
9 min read
Snabbit has raised roughly $112 million and built a rapidly scaling home-services business. But with FY25 revenue of just ₹1.1 crore against a ₹5.7 crore net loss, its Bigg Boss marketing push raises ...