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Books are signs that world hasn’t given up on itself. This World Book Day, pick up one

Srinjoy Dey -
Read books to understand or be understood. Because their power, ironically, escapes words.
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20 yrs on, Bend It Like Beckham is still ‘hot hot hot’ for its desi story and football love

Tina Das -
Gurinder Chadha’s film attained cult status and had real-time impact — it led to an increase in Asian women in British football.
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Hindi hegemony will only end when other Indian languages like Tamil are reinvented

Aananth Daksnamurthy -
Protesting against Amit Shah's Hindi imposition is fine but do non-Hindi states like Tamil Nadu work for the advancement of their own languages?
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A message for Zerodha founder Nithin Kamath: your ‘health programme’ is fatphobic

Revathi Krishnan -
Ensuring the fitness of your employees is great, but there are better ways to do it. Zerodha founder Nitin Kamath's 'initiative' is beyond unscientific.
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As a fasting Hindu, I oppose South Delhi mayor’s move to shut meat shops for Navratri

Nikhil Rampal -
The move to shut meat shops in south Delhi has less to do with piety, and more to do with religious might. And it is not based on any credible data.
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Urfi Javed is Rakhi Sawant 2.0 of street fashion. She has a lesson for TV’s ‘maryada’

Tina Das -
Bigg Boss OTT star Urfi Javed might be the queen of controversy, but her attitude also keeps winning as many hearts. She can't be trolled.
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Sit down, Will ya? What Will Smith did on Oscar stage isn’t love, it’s assault

Shubhangi Misra -
When Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars, it wasn’t for love. Women know it was a red flag.
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Get your act together, Netflix. Formula 1: Drive to Survive has too much creative liberty

Nidhima Taneja -
There's a thin line between documenting a sporting event and taking creative liberties to enhance select flavours. The Netflix show has blurred it.
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Dhoni is a bit of an enigma. But as CSK captain, Jadeja’s time had come

Shyam Nandan Upadhyay -
Dhoni is a man of few words, but Chennai Super Kings has won more than half the matches they played with him as captain.
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Why millennials are relating hard to Netflix India’s ‘Eternally Confused & Eager for Love’

Tina Das -
Finally, an Indian OTT show that shows self-sabotage and self-doubt in all its messy details.
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Two documents, Modi-Macron visits—India-France defence partnership is touching new heights

Swasti Rao -
Horizon 2047 signed during Modi's visit to France in July 2023 and the defence industrial roadmap during Macron’s visit to India in January 2024 guide the strategic bonhomie between the two countries.

SCO is not an anti-Western club. India’s presence is a guarantee against it

Data sharing policies can’t be one size fits all. Crucial to address privacy, ownership

Economy

How govt brought Vodafone Idea back from the brink & earned a neat profit in the process

Yuthika Bhargava -
In 2021, the government allowed telcos to convert interest on deferred spectrum payments and AGR dues into equity. This made it the single largest stakeholder in Vodafone Idea.

Defence

China builds road through Shaksgam Valley, India registers protest

Snehesh Alex Philip -
New Delhi has, in past, too, objected to Chinese construction activities in Shaksgam Valley. Work in this strategic region gathered pace after the 2017 Doklam stand-off.

National Interest

Frontrunner is letting the challenger define this poll campaign. Modi still hasn’t found a big theme

Shekhar Gupta -
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.

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