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Sunday, November 23, 2025

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It’s Pride Month and on Netflix, Hotstar, LGBTQ stories are growing. Here’s a checkout list

From Pose to Queer Eye to Ajeeb Daastaans — here's how LGBTQ community can Feel Good in Pride Month 2021.

Do your duty — The D-word that Goa really doesn’t want to hear in a marriage

The Goa government has turned into a marriage counsellor because it is alarmed by divorce rates. But millennials are on a different beach.

Naomi Osaka put the ball in Roland Garros’ court to make tennis better. It missed

Tennis is not just about the body, it is about the mind too. This was a chance for the French Open to be inclusive and kinder.

Hanuma Vihari to Sunil Chhetri — Indian sportspersons are finally showing up during crisis

Yes, #IndiaAgainstPropaganda was an embarrassment. But move away from the mainstream and you’ll see many sportspersons backing worthy causes.

Let Friends remain in that 1990s corner. We don’t need a reunion

Shows like Fleabag, The Good Place, Brooklyn 99, Ramy among others, prove that there is a way to be funny and incisive, yet not be offensive.

Nobody gets the IIT story right, 3 Idiots, TVF, to Netflix’s Alma Matters

Alma Matters places students before you but forgets to critically contextualise what they are saying about toxic IIT culture, or more importantly, not saying.

Telegram to Instagram — India’s anti-vaxxer group is growing for the first time. That’s bad

India — the country that defeated polio — now has a thriving Covid anti-vaxxer group.

SMS sent, no. of people registered, poetry — India’s health minister is busy this pandemic

You want data? Dr Harsh Vardhan’s Twitter timeline will drown you in it — from number of SMS’ sent via CoWin to number of vaccines sent to states.

Kate-William using YouTube to make monarchy cool. Diana is the competition, not Harry-Meghan

Following Princess Diana's lead and playing cricket in a salwar kameez is fine, but the Duke and Duchess have to do much more to compete with YouTube content creators.

China’s rocket is coming down with a lesson — avoid schadenfreude on India’s Covid misery

If the space debris of Long March 5B rocket causes widespread damage, China will be 'liable to pay compensation' as per international law. But Indians aren't rejoicing the prospect.

On Camera

Communists are shy of daylight. There’s something wrong with their ideology: C Rajagopalachari

On 23 May 1953, C Rajagopalachari delivered a speech at the Malabar District Political Conference in Palghat, examining the rise and fall of communism in India.

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.

From a small Kangra village to Tejas cockpit: IAF fighter pilot Namansh Syal’s journey cut short

Wing Commander Namansh Syal is survived by his wife, their 6-year-old daughter and his mother. Back in his native village, relatives and neighbours wait for his remains for last rites.

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.