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Tuesday, August 12, 2025

PoV

Deepika Padukone’s bikini is angering Indian men. This time she’s ‘degrading’ women pilots

Indians are asking how Bollywood dares to depict a fighter pilot in a bikini. The real question is why respect for a woman in a ‘serious’ profession diminishes the instant she wears a swimsuit.

Lappu sa Sachin to Elon killing the Twitter bird—2023 was never short on absurdity

While the summer months were defined by ‘favourite subject baingan’ and ‘mature bag’, early winter was ruled by ‘baithne ka tareeka thoda kazual hai’ and ‘just looking like a wow’.

Delhi Metro’s audio ad project is an assault on people’s ears. Why ban loud music then?

Subjecting people to mindless ads is neither a good marketing strategy nor a sound way to deliver a public service.

KCR’s superstition got the best of him. If only he focused on delivery, good governance

KCR not going to a secretariat for two years is just the tip of the iceberg – his affection for number six is also widely known.

‘The Archies’ desperately tries to get things right but ends up as a lazy nod to Gen Z

The three star kids — Agastya, Suhana, and Khushi Kapoor — put their best foot forward. And that's the only thing that saves the Zoya Akhtar-Reema Kagti production.

Everything Taylor Swift touches turns platinum. But she’s so distinctly uncool

There doesn’t appear to be a single countercultural bone in her body. She doesn’t have even a modicum of that detachedness, that aloofness, which is conflated with coolness.

‘Moye moye’ trend is the death of creativity. It’s just mocking disabled people

Everyone making 'moye moye' reels are just competing to be more cringe than others on social media.

Animal didn’t even get biology right. Vanga fanboys are mansplaining periods to women

Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s Ranvijay Singh doesn’t need a sanitary pad. He needs a diaper.

Not all star kids are lucky. It took Bobby Deol 30 years to win people over, build a fan base

Bobby Deol has changed. He is no longer playing a romantic hero, or even trying to look like he was still in his 30s.

This is the new Bollywood of men with daddy issues. Animal has only named the trend

From Wake Up Sid to Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani to Tamasha, it's almost as if the son of the Kapoor khandaan is desperately trying to grow up in every other movie.

On Camera

The speech PM Modi should deliver this Independence Day

For the last 11 years, Nehru has been constantly blocking my efforts and causing the fiascos that are my many yojanas and abhiyans. He is the reason most of my initiatives turn into disasters.

How mining, manufacturing & power sectors weighed on India’s industrial output since January 2024

India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.

Can’t restrict ‘extent of induction’—why SC struck down gender quotas in Army’s JAG recruitment

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has ruled that the Indian Army cannot cap the number of women in its Judge Advocate General (JAG) branch...

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.