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Topic: Rocket Boys

Family Man to Heeramandi—Mark Bennington is breaking the ‘bad white guy’ mould in Bollywood

Trained in theatre in New York and Los Angeles before moving to Mumbai in 2010, Mark Bennington is a chameleon breaking the mould of the typical "white guy" on Indian screens.

Doyenne of Indian classical dance — Mrinalini Sarabhai bloomed under the tutelage of Tagore

She established the Darpana Academy of Performing Arts in 1949. It was not just a pioneering step in the field of dance, but also for the emancipation of women.

Look out for the women in Rocket Boys — Mrinalini Sarabhai, Pipsy show grit and grace

In the very first episode of the new season, Mrinalini Sarabhai shuts down a journalist more curious about her absence from Vikram’s rocket launch than her dance academy.

Rocket Boys comes back stronger. Jim Sarbh, Ishwak Singh deliver their career best

The second season of SonyLiv's Rocket Boys takes place at the beginning of Indira Gandhi's term as prime minister of India.

Rocketry to Rocket Boys — India has finally entered era of science films and series

How many of us know the name of the current head of ISRO? What do we know about India’s recent space triumphs? OTT and films are trying to fill that gap.

Rocket Boys’ crime on history: Inventing Muslim villain, stealing Meghnad Saha’s identity

Brilliant physicist Meghnad Saha was a ‘Namasudra’, and has mostly been forgotten. This made it convenient to bury his character in a ‘true’ history, give him evil Muslim avatar.

Rocket Boys creates a perfect Muslim ‘foe’ because every good story needs a villain

Rocket Boys is the success story of India's scientists, be it Sarabhai, Bhabha, Kalam, or even Reza. But watch it for its creative liberty.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.