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TopicTrial by fire

Topic: Trial by fire

Books-to-OTT business takes off in India—The Story Ink team reads, reads and adapts

+TFP Tina Das -
Sidharth Jain’s quest to find good stories is not limited to the best sellers’ list. Netflix’s Trial by Fire is proof.

Trial By Fire’s Rajshri Deshpande is a fighter on screen and in 30 Maharashtra villages

Tina Das -
From playing Ismat Chugtai in Manto to Subhadra in Sacred Games, Deshpande is a widely-known name in the industry. But she’s more than that.

Never met victims’ family—Abhay Deol’s secret formula for Trial by Fire success

Tina Das -
Challenging characters don’t daunt Abhay Deol. He tells us how he perfected his brand of work and became the star who brings art to life.

With Netflix’s Trial by Fire, OTTs finally get tragedies right

Tina Das -
The impact of the series is that the fire isn't its highlight. Prashant Nair has shown the relentless struggle of the Krishnamoorthys with conviction.

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Opinion

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

Gitanjali Das -
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.

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

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

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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