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Thursday, August 21, 2025

PoV

Don’t dismiss ‘Barbenheimer’ as a fleeting social media trend—it’s a genius marketing lesson

Unlike Barbie’s high-ended marketing spree, Oppenheimer let its rivals do the hard work.

England cricket has a ‘class’ problem. And Bazball can’t hide it anymore

English men’s cricket could argue it has championed diversity with players such as Moeen Ali, Adil Rashid, and Jofra Archer in its setup, but the hierarchical reality tells a different story.

Family, friendship, masculinity, marriage — Delhi’s queer community tells their own story

The pride special storytelling event saw members of the community and allies taking over the stage and telling stories of heartbreak and joy

Ali Sethi, Pasoori are so big that Arijit Singh looks small for trying to own it

Hindi film remakes take regional songs to a wider audience but the big Bollywood singer gets the fame not the original artiste.

Nasbandi to Aandhi—how Bollywood movies captured the worst of Emergency era

Even before Emergency was announced 48 years ago, Bollywood captured the build-up of popular disquiet in movies like Roti Kapada Aur Makaan, Mere Apne, Namak Haraam.

Adipurush controversy shows there’s no pleasing Hindu groups. They want 100% compliance

From lashing out at Om Raut for kissing Kriti Sanon on the cheek to targetting ‘anti-Hindu’ Saif Ali Khan, the criticisms surrounding Adipurush are rooted in sexism and Islamophobia.

20 years of Chalte Chalte—when SRK didn’t play the king of romance

Chalte Chalte’s Raj seems to be an obvious precursor to men who stalk and abuse their partners, like in Kabir Singh and the atrocities Luv Ranjan calls films.

Brahmin ignorance, liberal guilt, Karl Marx – Manjeet Sarkar spares none in ‘Untouchable’

Stand-up comedian Manjeet Sarkar's power-packed performance builds on his Dalit identity with a singular goal—to make his audience shift uncomfortably in their seats.

Allowing same-sex marriage will bring down the divorce rates of ‘straight’ marriages

My gay friends who got married in their late 20s are now going to courts in their late 30s to settle their divorce cases.

How Diljit Dosanjh, Raja Kumari challenged ‘tone-deaf’ Coachella fashion—sneakers to prints

The outfits worn by Diljit Dosanjh, Ali Sethi and Raja Kumari were global yet personal, and independent of Western fashion expectations from the region.

On Camera

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

First-of-its kind tri-services conference Ran Samvad to take place in Army War College next week

Billed as the military’s own version of Raisina Dialogue, the event will spotlight on tech-driven warfighting, lessons from Operation Sindoor and release of three new doctrines.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?