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Luck, Pluck & DEV 37: How Devdutt Padikkal Rebuilt His Body, Batting and Career
Luck, Pluck & DEV 37: How Devdutt Padikkal Rebuilt His Body, Batting and Career
9 min read
Dropped on 0. Dropped again on 1. Devdutt Padikkal used both lives to score his second century in successive Tests. Behind the hundred lies a deeper reinvention involving illness, lost weight, two bat ...
IIT Student Suicides: Why India Still Lacks a Complete Count After 75 Years
9 min read
At least 160 deaths have been documented over two decades, yet no authoritative record traces the crisis across the IIT system’s 75-year history. Another death at IIT Delhi has brought the troubling a ...
India's Healthcare Paradox: World-Class Treatment, But Can Indians Afford It?
5 min read
Foreigners find India relatively inexpensive for major surgery, but the average Indian finds quality healthcare prohibitively expensive.
Melissa Gilbert Calls Out Hollywood’s Child Star Crisis: Why Young Performers Are Still Failing to Be Protected
9 min read
The deaths of Hayden Panettiere, Daveigh Chase and Michelle Trachtenberg have revived an old question with new urgency: Hollywood regulates children’s hours and earnings, but who protects their grief, ...
India Is Sending Over 200 Businesses to Japan. Here’s What’s on the Agenda
2 min read
India-Japan business ties are set to get a boost as a 200-plus member delegation visits Japan, with semiconductor and electronics cooperation expected to take centre stage
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...