Airtel tapped into nostalgia by featuring actors Neena Gupta and Ashish Vidyarthi, but gave it a modern twist with a script tailored for Gen Z, smartly bridging the gap between two generations.
The ground-breaking character this year is Ammaji in Vishal Bharadwaj’s Khufiya. She is a smart inversion of the usual sanskari, satsang-going Bollywood mother.
Former CEC TN Seshan was feared, formidable & famously outspoken. He was never partisan. In contrast, Gyanesh Kumar has a cavalier disdain, even disrespect, toward the Opposition.
His resignation letter alleged that practices within the bank were not in congruence with his personal values and ethics led to HDFC shares slumping to their lowest since June 2024.
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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