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28 Nov 2025 - Vol 04 | Issue 49

Dharmendra

The first action hero

All Magazine Stories - November 2025 Issue

Simone Ashley's stellar performance in This Tempting Madness

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Simone Ashley's stellar performance in This Tempting Madness
Web Series Review: Dining With the Kapoors
Web Series Review: Dining With the Kapoors
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He-Man with a Heart: Masculinity was gentle but never fragile with Dharmendra
Babar Afzal frames the artisanal luxury of pashmina
Dolly Parton manufactured the spectacle with wigs, rhinestones and wit. What she built underneath it—music, businesses, books and trust—was 100 per cent real
Mark Carney has answered Trump’s tariff wall with a dollar-for-dollar counterpunch. Canada’s retaliation comes with C$7.5 billion to shield the workers and businesses standing behind it
Beneath Dolly Parton’s rhinestones lived a songwriter who guarded her words and a poor child who answered illiteracy with millions of books. Every door she opened became an entrance for somebody else
Imran Khan’s international lawyer accuses Army Chief Asim Munir of running an “authoritarian regime”. Khan’s imprisonment, he says, is the warning Munir wants every dissenter to see
Joe Root trusted England’s players to behave like adults. Days later, Brydon Carse appeared in handcuffs and dragged his captain back into cricket’s oldest disciplinary rerun
boAt turned Salman Khan's famous “Bhai” status into a Raksha Bandhan joke. The timing is no accident
Trump wants to rename Lake Ontario because America may do less business with Canada. The lake, unfortunately for him, still shares a border with reality
Indian bank ads start like family dramas and end like sales pitches. Somewhere between the tears, there's always a loan
Piyush Goyal wants India to build the factories of tomorrow. His first repair job may be the rulebook holding their machines at the gate
India’s pace attack offers swing, angles, aggression and Bumrah’s genius. Prasidh Krishna keeps returning for something different: geometry
The startup ordered one slice each of CEO, CMO, CFO and CTO. The only thing nobody touched was the responsibility
When Sachin endorses it, people listen. The real test is whether they believe the product—or just the man
Skoda Kushaq Variant Guide: Which One Should You Buy?
Malini Sharma disappeared from Bollywood at the height of her fame
Nipun will remain above the waves while its divers, robots and rescue vehicle descend into darkness. For sailors trapped in a submarine, the grey ship on the surface could become their only road home
Stranded in Greece: Indian Sailors Caught in a Global Shipping Crisis
Everyone is talking about the blouse, the dog and the controversy. Almost nobody is talking about the jewellery
The chief guest arrived with bodyguards, received a tilak and danced for the crowd. It wasn't a celebrity. It was a robot
The internet saw romance. The traffic police saw a violation
It aimed for a gold medal. It ended up tackling the judges' table instead
For millions of children, school lunch is a lifeline. So why is it becoming a health scare?
She once served passengers at 30,000 feet. Now she's at the centre of a ₹30 lakh drug probe
Trump promised cheap petrol and no endless wars. Six months into Iran, the pump is running, the road has no exit and the approval gauge is stuck at 33%
Three Super Bowl trips. One prostitution sting. Now Jed York is facing the kind of scrutiny football can't shield him from
Viraj Sagar Das reckons a sporting nation cannot be built by counting medals while treating sport as an “extra”. India wins when playgrounds and classrooms stop competing for the same child
Mark Carney walked away from Washington’s offer and questioned whether America’s signature still meant anything. The trade deal collapsed. Trust may have gone with it
He turned down a takeover offer. Now he's betting that camel milk, donkey milk and a different idea of ice cream can build a ₹100-crore brand
Sarla Bhat was killed in 1990; her case reached court 36 years later in a 737-page chargesheet. It is the SIA’s first test of whether Kashmir’s cold files can still speak—and whether their evidence can survive trial
A toxic hallucinogenic plant was just a few taps away. That's why Karnataka is now asking tough questions of online grocery giants
Before it was a billion-dollar franchise, Cars was a story about slowing down. Twenty years later, Lightning McQueen is racing back
An AI data centre in space sounds like the future. Physics may have other plans
Life handed Gaurav Chauhan school shoes, ₹150 shifts and borrowed onions. He found his own gur and packed the sweetness into a ₹1 lakh box
A family dispute. A hilltop. Three lives lost. Investigators are now trying to understand how a private crisis turned into an irreversible tragedy
Ahmed al-Sharaa travelled from a $10 million American bounty to the Syrian presidency. Now Trump has erased the terror label, but Syria must still prove the transformation behind it
Trump is tightening the economic vise while keeping military force within reach. Iran is resisting, Israel is applauding and Pakistan is trying to stop the negotiating table from being crushed between them
Dhir Jhingran argues that education reform does not succeed in policy files but in thousands of classrooms. Unless everyone from state leaders to teachers sees the same destination, even the best idea can lose its way
AK Srikanth may have walked away from the conventional CEO’s chair, but he still runs entire worlds. On the blank page, he hires the characters, sets the rules and fires troublemakers with a plot twist
It's not just the virus you need to worry about. It's the mistakes people make when flu season returns
How Lenders Assess Risk Before Approving Your Loan Application
A Snapchat trail, a film studio pickup and a rising actor in handcuffs. Mumbai Police say the story is far from over
Nobody expected Tej Pratap Yadav and Mallika Sherawat to share a workout. That's exactly why the internet can't look away
Halfway through lunch, the sandwich moved. The internet hasn't stopped talking about it since
Put a Sumo on It: How Greenply Entered Advertising’s Product Torture Chamber
Mirzapur Bullet Ice Cream: When Movie Marketing Makes Violence Edible
One country beat Japanese Encephalitis. Another is still fighting it. A new vaccine partnership could bridge that gap
A robot replaced his knee. The bill was ₹0
Mumbai can find you a desk, a ride and a room without breaking your workcation. Now it only needs the Wi-Fi to keep pace with the hustle
Airfares are up 32%. Your next ticket may not be. Here's why
Did one postponed visit reveal the real obstacle in India-Bangladesh ties?
Five goals were impressive. The statement Barcelona made was even bigger
BJP has new faces inside its engine room. Now, Nitin Nabin’s challenge is to make them speak to a younger India
BJP Looks to Refresh and Reboot its Narrative
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Television Advertising Slips 7% as FMCG Holds Ground, E-commerce and New-Age Categories Gain: TAM Report
The missiles haven't stopped. Neither, Mike Pence says, has Ukraine's momentum
India doesn't just want Japanese investment. It wants twice as many Japanese companies betting on its future
She once struggled with self-confidence. Now she's carrying India's hopes to Miss Universe
India’s banks fixed the bad-loan problem. Now they need to avoid creating the next one
Beco’s Aditya Ruia on Why It Took on HUL and What Comes Next
Delusional Encounters: Neil deGrasse Tyson debunks favourite alien theories
Foreign Disclosure: Report anything earned in an overseas account
Hanging remains India’s prescribed method of execution in the “rarest of rare” cases. The Supreme Court has upheld the framework for now but left the door open for the Centre to explore alternatives
Listening Post: An AI voice dictation company wants to make the keyboard obsolete
Grief and Grit: woman faces her crumbling marriage and a brave new world
Red rot is draining the sweetness out of India’s sugarcane crop. The result is bitter: shrinking output, soaring prices and the return of raw sugar imports
Trump wants his economic offensive to crush Iran. Tehran is betting that oil, ships and the Strait of Hormuz will send the pressure flying back towards Washington
India's Healthcare Paradox: World-Class Treatment, But Can Indians Afford It?
Gilbert’s testimony leaves the industry with a simple question: if productions can insure equipment, protect footage and plan for delays, why can’t they let their youngest workers fall sick, grieve and say no?
The IIT system measures ranks, grades, citations, packages and global standing. Yet it still cannot say with certainty how many students it has lost to suicide since 1951, or what warnings came before them
Sri Lanka dropped DEV 37 on 0 and 1. He made both lives hurt before falling for 117. Sri Lanka will remember the catches. India may remember what followed
The next decade could transform India from a major chip designer to a significant chip maker
KK would have turned 58, but his voice never grew old. It still lives in every friendship, first love, heartbreak and goodbye we thought we had forgotten
At 33, Saransh Jain did not defeat age. He defeated the idea that age had already defeated him
Nicolas Cage escaped the Coppola name, outran debt and turned the memes into method. Benjamin Gates may hunt again, but Hollywood’s real national treasure never left.
Chandrayaan allowed India to touch the Moon. Gaganyaan will teach it to carry Indians into orbit. The Bharatiya Antariksh Station will decide whether India can stay there
Everyone agrees that the current model is broken. Nobody agrees on who should pay to repair it. And so, in an attempt to save Tamil cinema, the industry is threatening to switch itself off
In Trump’s America, anti-Asian hate has retreated from its pandemic peak, but the fear has changed shape. For Indian immigrants behind late-night retail counters, the danger may arrive as prejudice, robbery or both
In a Sweet Spot: India is exactly where it wants to be in the emerging global order
Darwin made Bangladesh believe they had rewritten history. Six days later, Mackay handed the script back
Tokyo jolted awake as the 5.9-magnitude quake rattled buildings, ruptured a water pipe and sent trains off schedule. The tsunami stayed away, but Japan is bracing for aftershocks
Ten files. Ten trails that vanished somewhere between an airport, a railway station and a new identity. The faces may have aged, but the FBI has not closed the hunt
Trump tightens the economic clamp. Iran keeps one hand firmly on the world’s most dangerous oil valve. Caught below them, Gulf tankers navigate a waterway where every threat can move markets
Sumit Sarkar (1939-2026) and the Deepening of Indian Democracy
As Australia crumbled around him, Cameron Green stood taller than ever
Trump’s war with Iran has crossed 770 US military casualties while tensions over Hormuz and Israel continue to strain Washington’s regional alliances. Tehran now claims the Middle East is searching for a new security order beyond America
Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived at the BJP headquarters as the party sharpened its battle over Vande Mataram. A nationwide campaign to defend the National Song’s complete six-stanza legacy is now set to follow
A fight over a child's medicine. A death. Four arrests. Questions that won't go away
A film exit. A director's accusation. A controversy that refuses to end
The fight over Imran Khan is no longer just political. It's now about his health, his prison conditions and a court order at the centre of a new showdown
Can stronger courts build stronger economies? India's Chief Justice thinks so
"Trophies, not likes." Gambhir's answer to every critic
Conan O'Brien came to India. He left auditioning for Bollywood
Starc started the destruction. Shoriful refused to let him finish it
A deal was days away. Now it's a $20-billion trade war
One flash of temper. One fine. Even Messi couldn't dribble past this
Tamil Nadu’s biggest political battle is starting to sound like a movie script
False Calm in Kabul: Five years in power and Taliban still seek legitimacy
No rallies. No fanfare. Just a nationwide push for seva