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Saturday, March 14, 2026

PoV

Indian women’s football team’s Asian Cup exit doesn’t tell the story of their rise

To expect India to suddenly rout top-class teams is irrational. It only happens in video games.

Exes can be friends. Christiane Amanpour’s former husband defending her is not suspicious

The irony of the Amanpour moment was that while Rubin was defending her work, the public conversation also shifted to their relationship.

Badshah’s ‘Teteeree’ shows what is wrong with Bollywood’s ‘brand of creativity’

This also tells that everything that rhymes is music, and everyone who can string together catchy lines is an artist. Badshah’s work is a reminder of that uncomfortable truth.

How ‘underdogs’ Shivam Dube, Axar Patel powered India’s T20 World Cup win

Throughout the tournament, while Sanju Samson and Ishan Kishan often grabbed the spotlight, Shivam Dube and Axar Patel quietly made their presence felt.

Movies offered a fun blueprint for adulthood. I’m stuck with war, climate change & cortisol

In the romcoms of the 2000s, the central tension was whether someone would fall in love. In the 2020s, the tension often feels like whether the systems we depend on will remain stable.

North Indians need a crash course from Malayalis. Civic sense can be taught

One can feel the difference the moment the train enters Keralam—cleaner railway platforms, more hygienic food stalls, orderly passengers, no stench, and, of course, fresh air.

Carolyn Bessette is suddenly the new Gen Z ‘It Girl’. She’ll be forgotten before you know it

With listicles and op-eds galore, fashion magazines are working overtime to print articles on Carolyn Bessette — her style, her life, even people who met her once are now piping up.

Maharashtra’s Holi is different. It’s not colourful

Festival names are an example of Hindi hegemony. For a generation that grew up watching Bollywood, Dhanatrayodashi became Dhanteras, and Marathi Bhaubeej became Bhaidooj.

Who gets to sound intelligent in English? A rural Bengali woman is forcing India to answer

Pujarini Pradhan, who hails from Bengal’s East Midnapore, discusses caste, feminism, Stanley Kubrick, Munshi Premchand and Khaled Hosseini in her Instagram Reels.

Stop celebrating Dubai’s bombing. Even if you don’t like the city

The Dubai that some are wishing bombs on is a city of migrants — mostly South Asians, who are living from paycheck to paycheck.

On Camera

What India can learn from the US-Israel war on Iran

Without any air force or navy worth the name, both Iran and Ukraine have held two superpowers at bay.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.