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Persis Khambatta, Indian model-actor who shaved her head for Star Trek, almost became Bond girl

Sakshi Mehra -
Persis Khambatta rose to international fame in 1979 after playing Ilia in Star Trek, for which she shaved her head. Actor Kabir Bedi remembers her as 'a kind, sensitive person.'

Markram, Proteas’ new hero who broke the jinx & brought home glory after decades of heartbreak

Triya Gulati -
Markram, Proteas’ new hero who broke the jinx & brought home glory after decades of heartbreak

British said Mangal Pandey revolted in a ‘drugged haze’. But he struck a new fear in them

Akansha Sengupta -
Pandey’s place in history has triggered a long debate for decades. Even today, there's no precise knowledge about the man behind the legend.

Ram Prasad Bismil was a revolutionary with a poet’s heart. He’s an icon of Hindu-Muslim unity

Nidhima Taneja -
Anti-CAA protests saw verses of Ram Prasad Bismil's poetry being read. In his 30-year-long life, he left a legacy that united all Indian patriots.

‘Some dreams, some magic’: What set Buddhadeb Dasgupta apart from Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen

Tina Das -
Economics professor turned filmmaker was more than a storyteller. He was a part of the parallel cinema in India.

Behramji Malabari—Parsi activist who fought widowhood, child marriage in Hindu society

Tenzin Zompa -
Shedding scrutiny on his 'anglicised' Parsi roots, Malabari emerged as the force behind the Age of Consent Bill that helped end ‘matrimonial slavery’.

In Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Gandhi saw the joy of Ganga. For Jinnah, he was an ‘inspiration’

Revathi Krishnan -
Gandhi described his interaction with Gokhale as ‘embracing the Ganges,’ while Jinnah wanted only to emulate him and become a ‘Muslim Gokhale.’

Maya Rao — the woman whose ‘unkept promise’ brought Kathak to south India

Suchet Vir Singh -
Maya Rao's mastery of Kathak under Shambhu Maharaj was such that she performed with him — a rare feat of the ‘guru’ performing with the ‘shishya’.

Meet Chuni Kotal, the Dalit Advasi woman from Bengal who battled stigma in Indian education

Nidhima Taneja -
Kotal was the first woman from the Lodha Savaras tribe to graduate and became an idol for the new generation of Dalit Adivasis and women.

Mah Laqa Bai — Hyderabad Nizam’s highest-ranking adviser who was both a warrior and poet

Rewati Karan -
Mah Laqa Bai was a progressive woman in a male-dominated court who accompanied Nizam II in three wars. She was his secret weapon.
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This is how Strait of Hormuz shock is forcing a global trade reset

Swasti Rao -
The current Iran war has laid bare a fundamental reality: 20 per cent of global energy trade cannot afford to rely on a single artery, no matter how resilient and cost-effective.

Pam Bondi’s firing is good news. Now, US Senate must stand up for DOJ

Pakistan is fence-sitting on Iran War. Tehran prefers it there

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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