Avijit Ghosh
How Raghu Rai documented India's most chaotic and iconic moments
Rai’s frames documented India's biggest names but also the song of struggling India, with washermen, wrestlers, construction workers, and cart pullers also becoming the subjects of iconic photos.
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Among the world's longest-running plays, what made Adrak ke Panje so successful?
With over 10,000 performances across decades in over 60 countries, Adrak Ke Panje rivalled the world’s longest-running plays — even inviting comparisons with Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap. Its creator Babban Khan passed away on April 17
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Miller’s Time, Miller’s Crossing
What a dramatic IPL match this week told us about cricket and life
The Rise Of Bihar’s Cricket Prodigies
A new generation of players is putting Bihar back on India’s cricket map, even as the state struggles to build a system that can nurture them at home.
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Why parents don't sleep in the night in this UP village
Drones. Trackers. Guns. Guards. Forest officials are pulling out all the stops to tackle a pack of predators that has killed 12 people, including 10 kids, striking fear and terror in rural Bahraich
What 2 Movies Made 50 Yrs Apart Tell Us About Film Critics
All pundits had dismissed Sholay as too gory, some have said the same about Dhurandhar. But these days, film reviewers’ politics often determine the review. Viewers, then as now, don’t care
Dharmendra, the star everybody loved, passes away
The actor, who acted in more than 300 films over six and half decades, thrived throughout his career and seemed unfazed by fluctuating trends or fickle public taste.
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A massacre, a conviction, an acquittal, and a 30-yr wait for justice
From the blood-soaked fields of 1996 to a courtroom limbo three decades later, Bihar’s Bathani Tola’s survivors still wait for the verdict that could finally bring them peace
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Playing Spin, India’s No Longer In Garden Of Eden
That South Africa batters and spinners outclassed India’s in Kolkata shows how far home team’s Test standards on turning tracks have dropped. If IPL takes all the attention, things will get worse
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Girls, Uninterrupted
India’s women cricketers, emblematic of its cultural and geographical diversity, showcase the talents of India Overlooked. Young people who are comfortable in their skins even if they aren’t comfortable speaking English. And BCCI deserves credit for backing them
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Many Bihars, Many Stories
Loyalty to Nitish endures, Tejashwi’s popular, 10k pre-festival transfer to women’s accounts could counter anti-incumbency, unemployment is a huge issue, as are paper leaks
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What Farhan’s ‘Gun’ Tells Us About Pakistan
Some Pak players were playing anything but cricket in Sunday’s Asia Cup match. Their gestures reflect the deeper toll decades of militarisation and extremism have taken on the Pak psyche.
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The academic who worked for transparency, accountability in elections
Jagdeep Chhokar, a founding member of the NGO Association for Democratic Reforms, passed away after devoting years to battling poll malpractices by political parties.
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‘India must have a centralised cricket data knowledge centre…data analysis helps craft strategy’
Himanish Ganjoo is a man of many parts. A cosmologist with a doctorate in physics from North Carolina State University, he is currently working on modified gravity and dark energy at Paris Observatory. He also served as consultant analyst for BCCI between 2022 and 2024. Ganjoo tells TOI what needs to be done to ensure Indian cricket stays ahead of the pack
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How a boy from Punjab helped Italy qualify for the T20 World Cup
Jaspreet Singh was born in India, drives an Uber in England and plays international cricket for Italy. A look at the travels and travails of a journeyman who cannot wait to play in the T20 World Cup in India next year
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Sholay@50: How just another dacoit tale went on to become a fable
Sholay was initially declared a flop and panned by critics. Now, the all-time blockbuster — celebrating its 50th birthday on August 15 — is regarded as the ‘best’ and ‘greatest’ film in polls. An exploration of how director Ramesh Sippy’s film lives in our heads through its dialogues and characters
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Where There’s A Gill…
The new Team India proved it’s a squad of unrelenting fighters in tough English conditions. Now, management must give the young talents a longer rope
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Why Humayun was probably the most modern of Mughal emperors
Humayun is often seen as a ‘hyphen’ between Babur and Akbar. But now with an expansive museum — which completes a year on July 29 — showcasing his life, the second Mughal emperor is getting more attention than ever before
- Avijit Ghosh
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Guru Dutt @ 100: The cinematic genius who made the camera sing
The director of ‘Pyaasa’ and ‘Kaagaz Ke Phool’, whose 100th birth anniversary falls on July 9, brought a lyricism to his craft that shone through in some unforgettable tracks
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‘Hindi cinema is a major connective space for Indian and Pakistani viewers…Diasporic youngsters watch it together’
Translator and cultural theorist Meenakshi Bharat taught English at Delhi University. She talks to Avijit Ghosh about her latest book, ‘Hindi Cinema and Pakistan’, how movies on sensitive themes can become double-edged weapons, they can incense or console
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