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BCCI vs BCB: Cricket is collateral damage in a game of political expediency

For so long has the Board of Control for Cricket in India been the bully of international cricket, it shouldn’t be a surprise that it is equally...

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Suresh Menon

The future of dating in 2026: Why travel, casual connections and offline meetings are redefining relationships

A friend of mine recently told me, quite casually, that she had travelled to Bengaluru, Goa and even Kerala in 2025 to meet three different men she...

02.01.2026 5

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Barry Rodgers

Column by Saba Mahjoor | Of gods and potatoes

On the third day of chillai kalaan (a period of extreme cold weather that starts on December 21 and lasts 40 days), while everything outside lay...

26.12.2025 5

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Saba Mahjoor

Class is useful, but form is everything in a T20 team

Selectors are a strange lot, doing the strange job of looking into the future armed with little more than scorecards, instinct, and the knowledge...

24.12.2025 2

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Suresh Menon

Column by Devdutt Pattanaik | Transformation of the stupa

Column by Devdutt Pattanaik | Transformation of the stupa

In 1898, William Peppé, a British engineer, excavated the Piprahwa stupa near Siddharthnagar in Uttar Pradesh (nine miles from Lumbini, the...

19.12.2025 3

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Devdutt Pattanaik

The new rules of cuffing season: From situationships to NRI flings and everything in between

The new rules of cuffing season: From situationships to NRI flings and everything in between

It is cuffing season again — Nature’s annual reminder that humans, like migratory birds and Delhi influencers, become deeply seasonal creatures....

19.12.2025 1

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Barry Rodgers