How one badminton academy in Hyderabad is producing the who’s who of Indian badminton—players like PV Sindhu, who just won the Macau Open, and Kidambi Srikanth who defeated a five-time world champion
India exports octopus in large quantities, and now the cephalopod has begun to feature on the menus of upscale Indian restaurants. But will you eat it?
Does everything from the casting of Priyanka Chopra to the location where the biopic of the boxing legend was shot only bring out Bollywood’s ethnic caricature of North-Easterners?
TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle