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After March 15: How Indian cricket changed 25 years ago
March 15, 2026, 7:11 PM IST
1996: March was the worst of times. On March 13, the World Cup semi-final match was awarded to Sri Lanka by match referee Clive Lloyd after India’s dramatic collapse in front of a rioting crowd. 2001: March…
March 15, 2026, 7:11 PM IST
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‘Jiyo aur jeene do’: Bharat in front of us, India can’t be left behind
September 13, 2023, 12:09 AM IST
The diversity of India is tremendous; it is obvious; it lies on the surface and anybody can see it — Jawaharlal Nehru in The Discovery of India. Bharat ka rehna wala hun Bharat ki baat sunata hun. …
September 13, 2023, 12:09 AM IST
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‘Sarvajan hitay, sarvajan sukhay’: Dear leaders, don’t raise your voice, improve your argument
August 17, 2023, 9:43 AM IST
How, how, Cordelia? Mend your speech a little, Lest you may mar your fortunes — King Lear “Poor” Cordelia, whose love is “more ponderous” than her tongue, cannot “heave” her heart into her mouth. Politics…
August 17, 2023, 9:43 AM IST
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The thrill of digital life: No more slogging or just blogging
May 2, 2022, 2:52 PM IST
The future will usher in an unprecedented era of choices and option — The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations, and Business I didn’t want to write about journalism awards for many…
May 2, 2022, 2:52 PM IST
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Don is dead: Give Dilip Kumar a Bharat Ratna
July 10, 2021, 4:18 PM IST
Speak only if it improves upon the silence — Mahatma Gandhi The Don Bradman of Indian cinema is dead. India’s leading journalists and film critics have used the choicest adjectives to shower encomiums on the…
July 10, 2021, 4:18 PM IST
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Twitter ban row: Why I am on microblogging site
May 27, 2021, 5:01 PM IST
This is the age of Twitter that drives newsroom day plans. And keeps journalists busy every moment. Before I tell you why I like to be on Twitter or love this space, I must tell…
May 27, 2021, 5:01 PM IST
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Cultural renaissance in Mithilanchal: Aspirations take wings; challenges galore
November 9, 2020, 8:20 PM IST
There is something in the air that is impacting every aspect of life in Mithilanchal. One is tempted to call it the cultural renaissance of Mithilanchal. We knew how and why Mithila region has always…
November 9, 2020, 8:20 PM IST
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A tribute to Kishore Da: Master of many moods
August 4, 2020, 4:41 PM IST
Today being the birthday of Kishore Kumar (August 4, 1929), it would be interesting to remind ourselves of a few things that make him a unique professional, who needs to be celebrated on his birthdays:…
August 4, 2020, 4:41 PM IST
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Let’s fight Covid: Be positive to remain ‘negative’
July 12, 2020, 9:35 PM IST
The connotation of being “a positive person” in life has changed sharply. Covid-19 has turned the world upside down. It is better to be called a “negative person” in medical terms that might decide our…
July 12, 2020, 9:35 PM IST
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Challenges of democracy: Modi-led NDA and secularists must work together
May 29, 2019, 8:38 PM IST
The unity of India was no longer merely an intellectual conception for me; it was an emotional experience which overpowered me. – Jawaharlal Nehru in The Discovery of India It’s time the National Democratic Alliance…
May 29, 2019, 8:38 PM IST
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Balakot aftermath: How to stop March of terror
March 9, 2019, 3:00 PM IST
Whenever we are idle a secret voice keeps telling us to feel guilty – Leo Tolstoy, War & Peace India has lost count of its 9/11 moments. The 1993 Mumbai bombings 26 years ago changed…
March 9, 2019, 3:00 PM IST
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Priyanka – a Brahmastra or a dud missile?
January 29, 2019, 1:01 PM IST
“Obvious power was too dangerous…but the relinquishing of power was dangerous in itself” – Mario Puzo in The Last Don. Very few people can understand the dynamics of power better than Rahul Gandhi who once…
January 29, 2019, 1:01 PM IST
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Atalji: The torchbearer of unity in diversity has left us
August 16, 2018, 11:13 PM IST
This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. Farewell, my blessing season this in thee! –…
August 16, 2018, 11:13 PM IST
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Chalo Paltai: Rahul must read between Marx lines
March 10, 2018, 11:18 PM IST
We have to be the check on their power. – Tom Hanks in The Post The “irrelevance” of the Left in India has made Karl Marx relevant by some distance while Vladimir Lenin (read statues)…
March 10, 2018, 11:18 PM IST
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Padmavati row: Bhansali must face bullets – of critics!
November 23, 2017, 10:39 PM IST
“Who will let you? That’s not the point. The point is who will stop me.” – The Fountainhead. Seems market is flush with funds. Even as India debates the merits of demonetisation and GST, the…
November 23, 2017, 10:39 PM IST
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Lankesh: A warrior whose pen became her weapon
September 8, 2017, 6:31 PM IST
Democracy may have died in darkness – to take a leaf out of The Washington Post masthead – for many in India when journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh was killed on the night of Sept 5 by…
September 8, 2017, 6:31 PM IST
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Gentlemen need some humility and grace!
June 22, 2017, 5:44 PM IST
From whatever I know about Virat Kohli and Anil Kumble or Kohli vs Kumble episode, it appears to be a sad commentary on the hubris that sets in among the new heroes, forgetting the principles…
June 22, 2017, 5:44 PM IST
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Sachin: A Billion Dreams is a treat for fans
May 28, 2017, 5:36 PM IST
We are such stuff; As dreams are made on; and our little life; Is rounded with a sleep – The Tempest, Act 4, Scene I. “Sachin is an emotion.” Sachin: A Billion Dreams that opens…
May 28, 2017, 5:36 PM IST
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Let victory help unite us, dear PM
March 17, 2017, 9:11 PM IST
Time is ripe for dedicating Charles Dickens’ immortal opener in A Tale of Two Cities to the extraordinarily large mandate for the Bharatiya Janata Party in Uttar Pradesh that opens PM Narendra Modi’s gate to…
March 17, 2017, 9:11 PM IST
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With Jayalalithaa’s death an era ends
December 7, 2016, 11:22 PM IST
Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself, goes the Chinese proverb. That brings me to J. Jayalalithaa, whose December demise brings back the memory of her mentor MGR. Her death has created the same…
December 7, 2016, 11:22 PM IST
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