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Friday, August 15, 2025

PoV

BCCI can close the wage gap in women’s cricket. Just look at tennis and US soccer

The senior women cricketers are paid around Rs 20,000 per day — equivalent to the wage paid to an Under-19 male counterpart. It's not nearly enough.

Instagram six-pack influencers are ruining men’s self-esteem, promoting alpha-male culture

The furore over six-pack abs on Instagram is more than just a trend. It's undermining the essence of fitness and replacing it with an illusion.

Afghan women are telling Taliban ‘Don’t touch my clothes’. It’s a new culture war

Many ask if the Taliban have changed. What people forget to ask is how Internet has changed Afghan women.

The Maggi milkshake is coming for you. Cringe food is the Roadies of today

Only if Indians said, don't yuck my yum. There’s a world of Fanta omelette, Rasgullah Maggi, and cheese pani puris waiting for you.

‘Ajkal kudiyan ne bimar’— Punjabi singer Simiran Kaur gets millions of views by shaming women

Simiran Kaur Dhadli puts down women for how they dress and for ‘fake’ cases against men in her new song ‘Lahu Di Awaaz’. It’s not music to the ears.

Dhoni might be a legend of Indian cricket. But the T20 World Cup is about those on the pitch

Winning or losing is not just a matter of having a decorated mentor. It is not the first time that former players are guiding the Indian team.

We’ll all be hate-watching Priyanka Chopra’s ‘The Activist’ — producers know that

‘The Activist’ is what happens when content creators hate wokeness, but pander to it.

Salman Rushdie on Substack is either killing the novel or taking it back to its birth

It is not surprising that authors such as Patti Smith and Scott Snyder and a host of comic book authors from Marvel and DC have also entered Substack.

ABBA’s isn’t just a cash-grab comeback. It reminds us of their staying power in pop culture

ABBA’s comeback single ‘Don’t Shut Me Down’ sounds like it could be a previously shelved Dancing Queen B-side. Disco didn’t die, it just plagiarised itself.

A Lucknow teenager is a force of nature on Instagram. Meethika Dwivedi packs UP pride, gaalis

Meethika's street-smart delivery style is replete with raw, unadulterated wisecracks. She is the voice of ‘boomers’, millennials and Gen-Z rolled into one.

On Camera

How Saba Azad became the accidental voice of Bengal’s language protests

Bengalis are hurt over a statement by the Delhi police calling Bangla a ‘Bangladeshi language’ and the lines Azad sang have unwittingly become protest music in Kolkata now.

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

President awards 1st set of Sarvottam Yudh Seva medals since Kargil, 7 honoured for leading Op Sindoor

This year, the Indian Air Force received four of the seven awards, followed by the Indian Army with two medals, and the Indian Navy with one. 

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.