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No Excuses, Few Answers: Cummins Concedes Australia Were Outplayed, Ponting Says Change Is ‘Inevitable'
No Excuses, Few Answers: Cummins Concedes Australia Were Outplayed, Ponting Says Change Is ‘Inevitable'
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Australia arrived prepared and still collapsed for 198, conceded a 228-run lead and lost to Bangladesh by nine wickets. Pat Cummins says there are “no excuses”. Ricky Ponting has gone a step further: ...
Brand Royalty: Smart Brand-Building Or Easy Money For Holding Companies?
5 min read
Holding companies of large business houses are increasingly charging group companies for the use of their brand names. It offers an easy and sustainable revenue stream that can only grow
17 Years Later, The World Comes Back: Can India Rule its Own Badminton Court?
6 min read
Seventeen years after India last hosted the Badminton World Championships, everything has changed. PV Sindhu has five Worlds medals, Satwik-Chirag are title contenders and India has gone from chasing ...
Peace Offer, Warning Shots and War Games: Why the Korean Peninsula is Heating Up Again
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South Korea wants talks to formally end a 73-year war. North Korea has answered with silence, missile launches and warnings of a stronger nuclear deterrent. A border breach and major US-South Korea mi ...
India-Sri Lanka 1st Test: The Most Important Runs in Devdutt Padikkal's 167 Came After 100
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Padikkal had already made his maiden Test hundred. What followed in Galle told India more. He returned after an overnight break and a rain washout, stretched 133 to 167 and joined a tiny club featurin ...
Indonesia Earthquake Explained: Why the Death Toll Has Risen After the 7.7-Magnitude Flores Quake
4 min read
A shallow 7.7-magnitude earthquake flattened homes, triggered landslides and cut off communities across Flores. With at least 51 people dead, thousands displaced and hundreds of aftershocks recorded, ...
Two Rockets, Two Coasts, 38 Minutes: SpaceX is Turning Spaceflight Into Routine
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One Falcon 9 carried satellites linked to the future of Amazon and Apple's space-connectivity ambitions. Another carried a classified US Space Force payload. They blasted off from opposite American co ...
N Chandrasekaran: A Turn of the Tata Page
4 min read
To steer a group as vast as the Tatas needs a unique set of characteristics that Chandrasekaran brought—familiarity with the group, unquestioned loyalty to its ethos and business acumen. There is also ...
Prize and Prose: Will a novelist dare to declare independence from the Booker?
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The Booker-philic novelist has to read the signs of the market, with the equivalent of telescope more than binoculars—they must predict human behaviour and emergencies, and, in this, the stockbroker h ...
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14 Aug 2026 - Vol 05 | Issue 33

Freedom Issue 2026

Shashi Tharoor on being radical liberal | Ram Madhav on how Gandhi used his Hinduism | TCA Raghavan on a diplomat's travels in history | Sumana Roy on the novel beyond the Booker | Carlo Pizzati on the dissolution of Borders
Behold Gandhi the Hindu: How Sanatana Dharma Shaped India’s Independence Movement and Nationalism
Testament of a Radical Liberal
Freedom Issue 2026: Editor's Note
The Capital of Mobilisation: Delhi and the unfinished argument of the Republic