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Sourav Ganguly: Lord’s and Master

The Ganguly mindset that drives the Gill leadership

Gautam Gambhir: Mind Over Matter

Gautam Gambhir’s shrewd strategies worked at Edgbaston

Prince Charging

Shubman Gill’s spectacular performance propels Indian cricket to its next era

Succession Rites at Dharamshala

The Dalai Lama has put in place a reincarnation plan to protect his legacy against Chinese interference by insisting that his successor will be born in the free world and identified by a trust founded by him

Open Minds 2025: Soft Power

Banu Mushtaq & Deepa Bhasthi | Allu Arjun | Karan Johar | John Abraham | Anant Ambani & Radhika Merchant | Monika Shergill | Nikhil Madhok | Leena Nair | Rashmika Mandanna | Gukesh D | Neeraj Chopra | Gautam Gambhir | Jasprit Bumrah | Shalini Passi | Dinesh Vijan | Sabyasachi Mukherjee | Tharun Moorthy | Manu S Pillai | Jaya Ashokan | Rahul Mishra | Ananya Pandey | Namit Malhotra | Manish Tripathi | Vidya Shah | Trinetra Gummaraju

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Open Minds 2025: Public Square

Shubhanshu Shukla | V Narayanan | Sunita Williams | Mukesh Ambani | Gautam Adani | Nikhil Kamath | Shashi Tharoor | Ram Madhav | Pratap Bhanu Mehta | Swapan Dasgupta | Anand Ranganathan | Aravind Srinivas | Vivek Raghavan and Pratyush Kumar | Vinod Dham | Balaraman Ravindran | Ashok Elluswamy | Jay Shah | Uday Shankar | William Dalrymple | Amitav Ghosh | Vikram Sampath | Abhijit Banerjee

Keeping the Faith

A direct hit can penetrate even a safe room. For years, I was convinced that my safe room was truly safe. But over the past few days, I have started to wonder, am I really protected? I’m beginning to question the quality of the safe room itself

The Revolution’s Last Stand

The Iranian regime is being thinned out. Whoever is in power in Tehran at the end of this conflict is likely to be radically different. It could be a new version of the same regime. It could be a descent into Syria-like chaos. And the regime may end with a whimper, not a bang, and it may be replaced with something equally unpleasant or worse