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TopicYearender 2025

Topic: Yearender 2025

Diljit Dosanjh’s Sardaar film to Ranveer Singh’s Kantara skit—controversies of 2025

Triya Gulati -
ThePrint takes a look at the top 5 controversies that created buzz this year.

Matcha, kunafa, persimmon—top 5 food trends of 2025

Triya Gulati -
Matcha became a cool-girl signal, avocado went from toast to tikka and chaat, and persimmon became the fruit of the year—thanks to Katrina Kaif.

10 things that made Indians proud in 2025

Stela Dey -
From a World Cup win to banking wins, ThePrint brings you 10 good things that happened in India this year.

6-7 to ‘Waah, Shampy, Waah’— the memes of 2025

Almina Khatoon -
From Cristiano Ronaldo applying for a job at Vishal Mega Mart to Manish Patel's viral "galti ho gayi" video, ThePrint looks back at the trending memes of the year.

Zohran Mamdani to Ishaan Khatter — 2025 was the year of male objectification

Triya Gulati -
Male objectification reached new heights in 2025, while Shah Rukh Khan and a young Salman Khan remain fan-favourites, the internet made a few new boyfriends.

Bollywood’s alcohol connection. 2025 was the year of celebrity liquor launches

Triya Gulati -
This year, actors, cricketers, and singers went beyond endorsements to launch liquor labels of their own.

Five times India’s chief ministers triggered outrage in 2025

Nootan Sharma -
Rekha Gupta to Mamata Banerjee, CMs courted controversy with their statements on women's safety, Operation Sindoor and more.

From Sundance to Venice—2025 marked a breakthrough year for Indian indie films

Tina Das -
This year, we saw debutant directors create masterpieces across languages and regions and win big at international film festivals.

ThePrint’s best photographs of the year — 2025 in frames

ThePrint Team -
From conflict and protest to faith and everyday life, a year captured by ThePrint’s photographers Praveen Jain, Suraj Singh Bisht, and Manisha Mondal.

Top 5 Bollywood debuts that impressed both critics and audiences

Tina Das -
Bollywood critics and audiences alike can be unforgiving. In 2025, only a few names managed to impress both and establish themselves as the next big thing.
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Opinion

Srinagar’s cinemas may have gone dark. Kashmir’s love for films never did

Triya Gulati -
It seemed like J&K's battered past had taken a backseat, even if it was for the four days of the international film festival.

Apple killed the base iPhone. Its status game is no longer subtle

Mirzapur’s Beena Tripathi is proof — a woman doesn’t need a gun to wield power

Economy

Global funds sour on India stocks as some cut allocation to zero

Faseeh Mangi -
Weak corporate earnings and the lack of an AI investment theme are prompting global investors to cut India exposure.

Defence

‘Society as battlefield’: NATO cites Indian military paper on cognitive warfare. What it says

Debdutta Chakraborty -
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.

National Interest

The real BRICS story is what China, Russia want & India wishes

Shekhar Gupta -
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.

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