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Samir Banerjee: Desi Prodigy
Lhendup G Bhutia
Can the Junior Wimbledon champion become the next big thing in tennis?
Good Riddance for the Second Time
Six years after it was struck down, the draconian Section 66A finally makes a reluctant exit
The Legend of the Poonawallas
Pomp, philanthropy and an affordable Covid vaccine for India. Yet another Parsi saga
Bollywood Family Values
Blended families, co-parenting by exes, single parent surrogacies and households headed by women. Middle-class cosmopolitan social norms and celebrity values have never been more similar
Dilip Kumar (1922-2021): The Original
With the flicker of an eyelash, an artfully displaced lock of hair, a careful modulation of his voice, he could make women swoon and men weep. Muhammed Yusuf Khan was the last of a gilded trinity that defined an era
The Dalai Lama@86: Birthday Monk
Does Modi wishing him signal a change in India’s engagement with Tibet and its spiritual leader?
The Message in a Reshuffle
The BJP has pre-empted parties like SP that were trying to bring parties and groups representing numerically small castes into their fold
Char Dham: The Right Side of History
On a high court dismissing the shastras as a reason to prevent livestreaming of Char Dham temple rituals
‘It is striking that China would take on India at a time it needs friends’
Richard McGregor is an award-winning journalist and author of the bestseller, The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers
The Come Back Cat
Seven decades after it vanished from India, the cheetah is set to return this November. Some conservationists fear it will upset the Indian ecological balance
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