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TopicFormula 1: Drive to Survive

Topic: Formula 1: Drive to Survive

India, don’t press the F1 button yet. We know how the Buddh International Circuit crashed

Kushan Mitra -
Newer races find it difficult to make money, no matter how good the racing is. Malaysia’s Sepang circuit had brilliant racing but they could not sustain it.

Netflix’s Drive to Survive is a masterclass on F-words but it lacks the race track drama

Kushan Mitra -
The Netflix docudrama has been a big hit for Formula 1 fans. But the new season failed to impress.

Formula E debuts in India but it still needs a ‘fan boost’

Kushan Mitra -
The Formula E race in Hyderabad will take place in the middle of the city, near the Secretariat and Hussain Sagar Lake. The circuit is just 2.83-km long.

Something’s rotten in the world of F1— dramatic finishes to lengthy season schedule

Kushan Mitra -
In the name of entertainment and contriving storylines, F1 cannot lose the essence of the sport, and I fear that it is treading down that path.

Get your act together, Netflix. Formula 1: Drive to Survive has too much creative liberty

Nidhima Taneja -
There's a thin line between documenting a sporting event and taking creative liberties to enhance select flavours. The Netflix show has blurred it.

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Opinion

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

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

Communism is based on self-deluding assumptions, it can’t be realised in practice: GN Lawande

Indian govt is scrambling to manage LPG shortage while denying it exists

Economy

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

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

Defence

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

Vaibhav Pant -
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.

National Interest

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

Shekhar Gupta -
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.

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