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The Radha Mystique: She teaches us that to love is to transcend our limitations
The Radha Mystique: She teaches us that to love is to transcend our limitations
8 min read
Radha, Krishna’s soulmate, is a unique phenomenon in religious and spiritual history. A milkmaid elevated to the supreme status of the erotic as well as divine beloved of the Supreme Godhead. Our unex ...
The Vvaan: Force of the Forrest Review - Missing the Forest for the Trees
1 min read
A collaboration between TVF and Balaji Telefilms, The Vvaan hopes its pretty leads will make up for the story’s mix of blind faith, rituals and modern values
Filling Up the Script: At the peak of her acting career, Shefali Shah puts her life into words
7 min read
His War on Hunger
6 min read
Narendra Modi’s economic empowerment of the underprivileged by technology will be recognised as one of the great success stories of the first quarter of the 21st century
Shopping Frenzy of the Boomtowns
9 min read
A new study redraws India’s consumption map by identifying powerful demand centres beyond the biggest metropolitan cities
Seven Wins, More Ways to Win: How India Keep Getting Past Pakistan
5 min read
Asian Games gold extends India’s winning streak against Pakistan to seven T20Is. From Kohli’s rescue act to Tilak’s finishing power, the sequence reveals a side with an expanding range of answers to c ...
A Sleepless Night, a Triple Bogey and a Golden Comeback: Pranavi Urs Makes Asian Games History
2 min read
The 23-year-old from Mysuru recovered from an early setback to become India’s first women’s individual golf champion at the Asian Games. She only realised she had won when a fellow competitor congratu ...
Was a Warning Missed? flydubai Co-Pilot’s Reported Past Puts Hiring Under Scrutiny
3 min read
Reports allege that concerns about the co-pilot’s extremist views surfaced before the attack on Captain Smit Machchhar. Netanyahu has threatened anyone who directed the assault, while flydubai says th ...
Hollywood’s New Boss: What the Paramount–Warner Bros. Merger Means for Your Screen
7 min read
Batman, Top Gun, HBO and CBS are heading under one corporate roof called Skydance. The $110 billion deal promises a stronger challenger to Netflix. It also brings heavy debt, fewer independent decisio ...