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TopicThe Year 2018

Topic: The Year 2018

Which Bollywood actor delivered the worst performance in 2018?

While 2018 was a good year for many deserving actors in Bollywood - like Vicky Kaushal, Rajkummar Rao, Tapsee Pannu and Ayushmann Khurrana -...

Neither NickYanka nor DeepVeer, this was the most searched wedding of India in 2018

There were quite a few headline-grabbing big fat celebrity weddings this year, but they were all trumped on Google Trends.

Netflix, Smriti Irani, Alia Bhatt & more — the 15 articles we got trolled for most in 2018

A selection of the news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this year that drew the most flak and trolling on social media.

Five major challenges that shook India’s economy in 2018

From GST to RBI to NPAs, both institutions and governance had a turbulent ride.

The 12 controversies that Indian Twitterati loved in 2018

From ‘Lady Doritos’ to fitness challenges, from ‘Urban Naxals’ to ‘bird droppings’, here are 12 controversies that set Twitter alight in the year gone by.

Why ThePrint list of gen-next intellectuals did not have any women nominators

All the women we approached said no, while very few men did that – all for their individual reasons.

In 2018, Narendra Modi’s BJP govt stood for bickering, jostling & picking fights

Modi government's constant conflict with one institution or the other and its adverse perception made it look like a fledgling force.

60% of life on Earth is lost, and 6 other science discoveries of 2018

In 2018, humans found out that evolution of complex life happened far before we thought, and memory can be ‘transplanted’ between organisms.

This is the next generation of Indian intellectuals

India's next 51 top intellectuals, as chosen by Ramchandra Guha, Shashi Tharoor, Nandan Nilekani and others.

On Camera

Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

In a first, Indian small arms maker to bid for UK Project Grayburn to replace British Army’s SA80 rifles

Bengaluru-based SSS Defence has made public its bid for a major foreign military contract, targeting UK’s ambitious SA80 successor programme with its home-tested weapons.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.