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Column by Saba Mahjoor | Gogji for a broken heart

Column by Saba Mahjoor | Gogji for a broken heart

It was a late September afternoon. Autumn had taken hold; the earth had shed her vibrant costumes from spring and summer, and was getting ready for...

yesterday 10

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Saba Mahjoor

Redemption calls for self-belief, for both men’s and women’s cricket teams

Redemption calls for self-belief, for both men’s and women’s cricket teams

It is unusual for a player to take the blame for a team’s defeat, as Smriti Mandhana did after India’s loss to England in the Women’s World Cup. A...

22.10.2025 2

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Suresh Menon

Column by Devdutt Pattanaik | Kailasa in Cambodia

Column by Devdutt Pattanaik | Kailasa in Cambodia

A few decades before the Chola king Rajaraja I built the Brihadeeswara Temple in Tamil Nadu, around 1000 AD, a Khmer king called Jayavarman IV had...

18.10.2025 1

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Devdutt Pattanaik

Column by Saba Mahjoor | When two sisters split a village

During the course of my life, I have watched Phuphee work through countless cases and offer each one a tailored solution. But there was one that...

26.09.2025 1

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Saba Mahjoor

India vs Pakistan | It’s ugly, but mock battles on field preferable to real ones off it

In his much-quoted essay The Sporting Spirit, George Orwell wrote, “Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred,...

24.09.2025 1

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Suresh Menon