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Column | A vintage private eye

Column | A vintage private eye

In an early scene from The Thursday Murder Club, directed by veteran director Chris Columbus (Home Alone, The Goonies), retired spy Elizabeth...

08.09.2025 3

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Aditya Mani Jha

Dhoni is the natural choice as captain of best all-format XI

Dhoni is the natural choice as captain of best all-format XI

The selection of Shubman Gill for the Asia Cup might be debatable. Not because he is not good enough, but because the Test series against the West...

03.09.2025 20

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Suresh Menon

Column by Saba Mahjoor | The curse of desire

Column by Saba Mahjoor | The curse of desire

On a beautiful spring day in April, a young woman walked into Phuphee’s garden. We had been tending to her garden since the early hours of the...

30.08.2025 1

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Saba Mahjoor

Anchoring or accelerating, Pujara was a great fit at No. 3

Anchoring or accelerating, Pujara was a great fit at No. 3

Had Cheteshwar Pujara been in the team, it is possible India might have won the recent series in England. Once skipper Shubman Gill decided he was...

27.08.2025 1

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Suresh Menon

The head on the temple | Column by Devdutt Pattanaik 

On the top of many Hindu temples, one finds the image of a head looking down on the people below — his eyes protruding from its sockets, his mouth...

16.08.2025 1

The Hindu

Devdutt Pattanaik