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Brilliant Bavuma’s message for India: Be careful what you wish for

Brilliant Bavuma’s message for India: Be careful what you wish for

In the 2012-13 series against England, when skipper M.S. Dhoni asked for a turning track at Eden Gardens, the curator Prabhir Mukherjee told him...

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Suresh Menon

Column by Devdutt Pattanaik | How Vasudeva became Vishnu

Column by Devdutt Pattanaik | How Vasudeva became Vishnu

At Malhar, a small town near Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, we find an image of a soldier with four arms, holding a conch shell, a wheel and a mace. It...

14.11.2025 40

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Devdutt Pattanaik

Ironical, but Rohit and Kohli will need to keep proving themselves

Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli haven’t made it easy for the selectors. Had they failed in Australia, Ajit Agarkar and company would have found it...

29.10.2025 7

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Suresh Menon

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...

25.10.2025 10

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Saba Mahjoor

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