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Saturday, April 4, 2026
TopicDC comics

Topic: DC comics

Raj Comics – publishers who brought home your friendly, neighbourhood desi superheroes

Sanskriti Bhatnagar -
From ‘Nagraj’, the king of snakes, to anti-hero ‘Doga’, ‘Dhruva’, the super commando, to 'Parmanu', Raj Comics gave Indian children a whole new world of original Indian heros.

Say what you might — Marvel Studios has triumphed over DC. And it all started with Avengers

Nidhima Taneja -
What started as six core Avengers — Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk, Black Widow, Thor — turned Marvel into real-life superheroes of the movie genre.

Robert Pattinson is the best Batman and finally shows Sherlock Holmes side of the superhero

Nidhima Taneja -
In The Batman, Reeves delivers a thriller that stands on its feet devoid of the ‘superhero’ genre, and a Batman rooted in realism.

Bisexual Superman is a long time coming. Comic books are the last frontiers of masculinity

Rachel John -
DC Comics' move to make Superman bisexual in Jon Kent’s Issue #5 is an important one. He is as 2021 as one can get.

On Camera

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Opinion

Maach & mutton for Mission Bengal. What BJP-TMC are cooking in new poll battleground

Stela Dey -
The stereotype of the fish-loving Bengali has now become a contested political site and both the BJP and TMC know it. And the voters do too.

Casteism didn’t disappear in Indian cities. It just learned English

India’s endless loop of babas is powered by daddy issues, mythology. And now social media

Economy

SEBI proposes return of open market share buybacks to support stocks

Alex Gabriel Simon Thattil -
Regulator seeks feedback on allowing firms to repurchase shares via exchanges after tax changes, as markets reel from war-led selloff and foreign outflows.

Defence

South Korea’s Cheongung-II missile system makes its mark in West Asia war. Here’s why

Keshav Padmanabhan -
UAE has been using this defence system, which is similar to America's Patriots, against Iranian missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles.

National Interest

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

Shekhar Gupta -
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.

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