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Saturday, November 22, 2025

PoV

Remember Sunidhi Chauhan? Playback singer is India’s new pop icon—dress, dance, and disco

Sunidhi Chauhan's transformation goes beyond her makeover. She has become one of the rare Indian performers who is converting herself into an international pop star.

Monkey Man has Hanuman as the avenger-superman. Of course, there’ll be politics

Monkey Man seems like tone-deaf fodder for Hindu outrage. But Indians will have to wait to rage.

Diljit Dosanjh’s lonely childhood is not an ingredient to his fame. It’s trauma

When BeerBiceps asked Diljit Dosanjh why he’s so deep, the singer-actor pointed to his lonely childhood where his parents abandoned him. It’s packaged as the secret to his success.

Why shouldn’t women want rich husbands? Marriage market has duped them for far too long

It should come as a welcome sign that brides are finally being open about what they’re looking for. Too many generations of women have borne the curse of silence and suppressed feelings.

Assam’s mekhela sador-wearing soccer moms have surprised the internet. But it’s nothing new

Two moms can be seen cheering and shouting instructions at the players in a video posted by NorthEast United FC. They’ve been part of Assam’s sporting cultures for at least 20 years.

Is Sara Ali Khan cringe or cool? She now wants privacy, not paps

“I’m tired of asking you to stop,” Sara Ali Khan told the paparazzi — surely she doesn’t want to be documented so relentlessly.

Beyonce’s Jolene is a warning not a plea. But a man who wanders isn’t worth fighting for

Over 50 years after Dolly Parton ‘begged’ Jolene to not take her man, Beyonce ‘warns’ her. In this new savage version, she still puts the onus of a man’s infidelity on the woman.

The Sun isn’t ‘conscious’, but you are. Don’t fall for every science-sounding claim

An article published on Futurism.com said that a ‘biologist’ claimed the sun was conscious.

Sanjeev Sanyal says UPSC is poverty of aspiration. But it’s more about desperation

The most productive years of Indian youth gets wasted preparing for the UPSC. But they didn't create this system; the government did.

Mamata Shankar stuck in Dark Ages. Gen Z showing India there’s no one way to wear a saree

In an interview with Anandabazar Patrika Shankar waxed eloquent about her many objections to the pallu not covering the bosom area of Gen Z women. She called them ‘women of the street’.

On Camera

India’s labour policy left it unable to compete with other eastern economies: Nani A Palkhivala

Liberty without accountability is the freedom of the fool. Our concept of freedom will remain impoverished until it is deepened by liberal education, wrote Nani A Palkhivala in 1995.

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.

Tejas fighter aircraft crashes at Dubai Air Show, IAF confirms pilot’s death

This is the second such incident after a Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas had crashed into a hostel on the outskirts of Jaisalmer in March last year.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.