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From Indore Rooftop Nets to India Test Debut: Inside Saransh Jain’s Remarkable Cricket Journey
From Indore Rooftop Nets to India Test Debut: Inside Saransh Jain’s Remarkable Cricket Journey
9 min read
The IPL never called. The years kept passing. His father fought cancer, a coach rescued him from the margins and domestic cricket tested his faith for more than a decade. Saransh Jain continued to tur ...
Nicolas Cage is Hollywood’s Real National Treasure: Castles, Cobras and the Comeback Nobody Saw Coming
10 min read
As National Treasure 3 finally moves towards the screen, the treasure hunter is returning with a life stranger than any map Benjamin Gates ever decoded. Nicolas Cage escaped the Coppola name, won an O ...
From Chandrayaan to a Home in Orbit: Can ISRO Build India’s Space Station by 2035?
10 min read
Chandrayaan-3 took India to the Moon. SpaDeX taught two Indian spacecraft to find and dock with each other. Gaganyaan must now carry Indians into orbit, while a new launcher, life-support system and f ...
KK Birth Anniversary | From ‘Yaaron’ to ‘Tadap Tadap’: The Voice That Made a Generation Feel Everything
8 min read
He sang friendship before we knew friends could drift away, love before we understood longing and heartbreak before many of us had a heart to break. On KK’s birth anniversary, a tribute to the singer ...
Shot at the Counter: Are Indians and Asians Becoming Less Safe in Trump’s America?
10 min read
Suresh Patel’s murder appears to have begun as a liquor-store robbery, not a hate crime. But his death opens a larger story about two dangers confronting Indian Americans: anti-Asian hostility that su ...
Was Darwin a Beautiful Hallucination? Bangladesh Crash for 64 and 95 as Australia Win by an Innings
5 min read
Six days after scoring 426 and inflicting a historic nine-wicket defeat on Australia, Bangladesh were bowled out twice inside two days in Mackay. Darwin was real. The hallucination may have been belie ...
Mark Zuckerberg: A Metamorphosis Foretold
1 min read
His empire is being made to answer for its creations even as it fights for relevance
Murderers, Hijackers and a Missing Cryptoqueen: Inside 10 of the FBI’s Most Extraordinary Manhunts
9 min read
One allegedly vanished after being released on bond in 1989. Another escaped prison, dressed as a priest and hijacked a plane. A third boarded a flight to Athens and disappeared with billions in her w ...
Sumit Sarkar (1939-2026) and the Deepening of Indian Democracy
6 min read
Sumit Sarkar’s life as a historian and public intellectual was defined by a persistent scrutiny of power—whether exercised by the Right, the Left, the state or institutions of knowledge