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Salim Khan: The Man Who Gave Bollywood Its Voice—and Its Anger
Salim Khan: The Man Who Gave Bollywood Its Voice—and Its Anger
11 min read
Salim Khan’s Raj Kapoor Lifetime Achievement Award celebrates an unsuccessful actor from Indore who became Hindi cinema’s master storyteller, imagined the Angry Young Man, helped turn Amitabh Bachchan ...
Fortress Delhi: 15,000 Police Personnel, 200 Paramilitary Companies Mobilised for BRICS Summit
2 min read
From airport arrivals to hotels and Bharat Mandapam, Delhi’s BRICS security plan covers VIP routes, CCTV surveillance and emergency evacuation. Police have urged residents to follow advance traffic ad ...
One Shoe, Two Histories: How Adidas Forgot the Indian Footprint
7 min read
Ten years before Adidas introduced its European Single Shoe Service, Adidas India and Taproot Dentsu were offering para-athletes two left shoes or two right shoes through “Odds.” The new solution is b ...
BRICS Summit: Why Xi Jinping's India visit could reset ties with PM Narendra Modi
6 min read
Xi Jinping's first India visit in seven years comes after a cautious India-China thaw. But can the BRICS Summit turn a diplomatic reset into a deeper relationship?
What's next for TianGong Ultra, the Chinese robot that outran Usain Bolt?
5 min read
TianGong Ultra stunned the world with an 8.64-second 100m sprint. Now its engineers want to solve a much harder problem: making a fast humanoid robot genuinely useful.
80s AI photo trend: From Piyush Goyal to Kiara Advani, who all joined the internet's biggest nostalgia craze?
3 min read
First came the Ghibli portraits, then the action figures and now the internet wants to know one thing: what would you have looked like in the 1980s? Politicians, actors, cricketers and influencers are ...
HPV Vaccine Explained: Why India is Vaccinating Girls Before Cancer Becomes a Threat
4 min read
A Supreme Court hearing has put India’s HPV vaccination programme in the spotlight. Here is why the vaccine is offered to adolescent girls, what the evidence says about safety, and what parents should ...
Freedom of Choice: BRICS and India’s idea of strategic autonomy
5 min read
The composition of BRICS has changed substantially. With 11 full members—Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Indonesia—the grouping is conside ...
Meet Lamine Yamal: The 19-year-old who made UEFA Champions League history as Barcelona's youngest captain
3 min read
Barcelona’s 5-1 demolition of Feyenoord was impressive. But the bigger story may have been the teenager wearing the captain’s armband. At 19 years and 58 days old, Lamine Yamal became the youngest cap ...