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Midwife’s Tale: Katihar’s killers to protectors
December 26, 2024, 8:55 AM IST
Hard-hitting documentary ‘The Midwife’s Confession�?reveals why killing baby girls was rampant in 1990s Bihar and why, though far reduced, the practice refuses to die. Amitabh Parashar, 56, whose project spanned nearly 30 years, has�?/p>
December 26, 2024, 8:55 AM IST
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Olympic herstory: Manu Bhaker is the new song of young India
July 31, 2024, 7:40 AM IST
Starved of Olympic heroes, India often puts the crushing burden of billion-plus expectations on a few sportspersons. When these aren’t met, the national mood, especially on social media, turns sullen. Like it happened with the�?/p>
July 31, 2024, 7:40 AM IST
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Can a curveball be hit for a six?
June 7, 2024, 9:47 PM IST
America’s T20 World Cup victory over Pakistan is a milestone moment in US cricket history. Yes, it will take time & effort for Americans to fall in love with the game. But it will likely�?/p>
June 7, 2024, 9:47 PM IST
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Why Team India needed a Rinku-first policy
May 6, 2024, 12:29 PM IST
In a press conference explaining the whys and hows of Team India’s selection for the World Cup, BCCI’s chief selector Ajit Agarkar said that Rinku Singh was “the toughest thing to discuss…it was all about�?/p>
May 6, 2024, 12:29 PM IST
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From Ranchi test, a complicated cricket love story
February 27, 2024, 10:38 AM IST
Bengal is the hub for talented Bihar cricketers like Akash Deep & Mukesh Kumar. Reasons lie in history & geography India clinched the ongoing Test series against England with an emphatic win in Ranchi. Among�?/p>
February 27, 2024, 10:38 AM IST
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There’s too much money & too much fear
January 30, 2024, 8:18 AM IST
India’s cricketers earn plenty. They want more. So, self-preservation trumps team strategy. This showed up in Hyderabad Test via timidity of Indian batters. England played fearlessly In summer of 2022, England chased down 296 against�?/p>
January 30, 2024, 8:18 AM IST
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Lesson from 642 balls: Find the next Bumrah & Siraj
January 5, 2024, 8:07 AM IST
The Test lasted only two out of a possible five days, just five out of 15 scheduled sessions. Only 642 balls were bowled in four innings, merely 42 more than in a current ODI game�?
January 5, 2024, 8:07 AM IST
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How movies will make us
December 30, 2023, 8:44 AM IST
More than ever, cinema is used by different people for different things. Expect more of this in 2024 Like the air we breathe, cinema is all around us now. We access films on mobile phones,�?/p>
December 30, 2023, 8:44 AM IST
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Win or lose, cricket is us
November 20, 2023, 8:44 AM IST
Yes, Australia played like champions. Yes, the Cup didn’t come home. But Team India gave India moments of pure joy. Nothing takes that away Life, in the end, is a few stories we remember and�?/p>
November 20, 2023, 8:44 AM IST
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The other Bose �?Face of revolutionary Asia: A biography Fugitive Of Empire by historian Joseph Mcquade relocates Rash Behari Bose’s place in modern Indian history. He helped spread anti-colonialism from Punjab to Tokyo
November 14, 2023, 9:19 AM IST
Rash Behari Bose, multi-tasker par excellence, was the chief coordinator of armed conspiracies, notably the bomb attack on Lord Hardinge in Chandni Chowk in 1912 and the abortive rebellion of 1915 that spread from Lahore�?/p>
November 14, 2023, 9:19 AM IST
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A cup half empty? The 13th world ODI championship begins today. But the buzz, so far, is underwhelming
October 5, 2023, 9:25 AM IST
Modern cricket is best understood as a sport constantly trying to reinvent and update itself. Tests weren’t always played over five days. Overs weren’t always about six deliveries. Among the game’s most subversive changes in�?/p>
October 5, 2023, 9:25 AM IST
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August 26, 2023, 9:16 AM IST
Social scientist Devesh Kapur teaches politics and society at Johns Hopkins University. His latest book is Internal Security in India: Violence, Order and the State, co-edited with Amit Ahuja. In Delhi recently, he spoke to�?/p>
August 26, 2023, 9:16 AM IST
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Kohrra is about prisoners in search of love
August 1, 2023, 12:45 PM IST
We are all half and imperfect. And in search of something that completes us. That search, often hesitantly but almost inevitably, leads us to what many describe as love. But love has its own politics�?/p>
August 1, 2023, 12:45 PM IST
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The league of the cricket nation: The most inspiring players of IPL 2023 have left cricket fans wanting to know what they can do for Team India. Can the most successful teams�?work philosophy be used by Men in Blue too?
May 27, 2023, 8:42 AM IST
Like a blockbuster web series, IPL drops into millions of lives every year. As the show’s 16th season heads towards a feverish climax, here’s a bunch of lessons and observations from the last seven weeks�?/p>
May 27, 2023, 8:42 AM IST
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In the battle of bans and tax-free benefits, cinema is the loser
May 21, 2023, 4:00 AM IST
Nothing reflects India’s polarised polity better than the conflicting reactions to ‘The Kerala Story�? a film that recounts the ordeal of three girls �?two Hindu and one Christian �?who suffer in different ways�?/p>
May 21, 2023, 4:00 AM IST
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January 30, 2023, 2:10 AM IST
Mahatma Gandhi, assassinated this day 75 years ago by Nathuram Godse, hated the movies. But cameras followed Gandhi most of his career, with the exception of his last moments. Prakash Magdum, former director of the�?/p>
January 30, 2023, 2:10 AM IST
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When the blinding fog is a Bollywood song
January 1, 2023, 9:28 PM IST
Cars crash, trains get delayed, flights are cancelled �?every winter fog messes up north India. But in Hindi films, the blinding wall of white mist is a handy device to create mystery or romance,�?/p>
January 1, 2023, 9:28 PM IST
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December 24, 2022, 2:20 AM IST
Renowned film director Saeed Mirza (‘Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro�? ‘Naseem�? was a close friend of Kundan Shah, who among other things, helmed the iconic politically-aware comedy, ‘Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro�? Shah passed away in�?/p>
December 24, 2022, 2:20 AM IST
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A footballing fairy tale and immigrant dreams: Morocco beating Spain was a triumph of football spirit & a multi-layered political message
December 8, 2022, 2:10 AM IST
The footage is less than a minute and half but the video is clear; so’s the football commentary. “It’s 1966 finalist (West) Germany versus no-chance Morocco, at least that’s what the form book says,�?it�?/p>
December 8, 2022, 2:10 AM IST
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