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Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Brandma

‘Mera sapna, meri Maruti’ — how a car became the status symbol of a young, working India

Sleek, colourful Maruti 800 was a rock star in India among Ambassadors and Premier Padminis.

Murphy Radio and a bonny baby are what pre-TV Indian memories are made of

Murphy Radio and the child on its ads are what Indian memories are made of.

Binaca was a brand that brought toothpaste and music together

Binaca toothpaste ruled at a time when radio was king in India.

Campa Cola was India’s answer to Coca-Cola and was the perfect fit

Campa Cola promised ‘the great Indian taste’ and was young India’s drink of choice.

This car was the original Ambassador of Make in India

Ambassador was the enduring symbol of post-Independence India.

HMT watch was all about sturdy functionality, and then India changed

HMT’s catchy advertising campaign centred on the ‘unity in diversity’ theme.

On Camera

Pakistan can’t bomb or bargain its way out of the TTP-TLP mess

Among the many problems Pakistan is currently dealing with, the TLP and TTP offer two varying dimensions of the same one.

Denied RBI licence to operate, Fadnavis govt scraps Maharashtra’s asset reconstruction firm

Maha ARC was set up to restructure distressed institutions linked to state government, but officials said the company would have been most useful for reconstructing and selling off sick cooperatives.

‘Can’t really win you wars’: What IAF chief said on drones, manned aircraft & Ops Sindoor

At defence conclave, Air Chief Marshal A.P. Singh says conflict needs all kinds of weapons, not just the long-range ones, as a paracetamol cannot cure all ailments.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.