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Smriti Mandhana, 23, is giving Indian male cricketers a run for their money. Having scored 2,000 ODI runs in just 51 matches, she has surpassed even Virat Kohli (53). Q. Four 50s and a hundred in seven ODI innings this year, and the second-fastest In

It is 1964. After the blue-eyed innocence of Claire Foy over two seasons, the introduction of a restrained Olivia Colman as Elizabeth makes instant demands of the viewer. It takes just one line from Her Majesty to ratify the casting choice. The queen

Igor Stravinsky's spellbinding score for 'The Rite of Spring' isn't a usual soundtrack for a Kuchipudi performance. Bhavana Reddy, however, makes this contrast seem natural. Daughter of the legendary Raja Radha and Kaushalya Reddy, she will be seen d

When Maribou State headlines Magnetic Fields, it will mark a full circle for the British electronic music duo comprising Chris Davids and Liam Ivory. Their set will be the last show of their Kingdoms in Colour tour, which they've been performing in s

Magnetic Fields stands apart from other Indian music festivals on multiple counts. There's the palace hotel location, Alsisar Mahal in Rajasthan; the limited capacity, a little over 4,000 people; and the line-up, cutting-edge acts from India and abro

The Serendipity Arts Festival 2019 in Goa, from afar, seems to be all about juxtapositions. An exhibit featuring an ingenious groundnut and turmeric digger, for instance, will be shown alongside the story of the evolution of Jamdani fabrics. Conversa

Pawar house Five years back, a glum Ajit Pawar had vacated his official bungalow, 'Devgiri', near Mumbai's upmarket Malabar Hill. The sprawling Napean Sea Road residence-Mumbai's second most important political address after the chief minister's home

In an author's note at the end of Gunboat Jack, Aleph's reissue of a novel originally published under another title in 1981, author Timeri N. Murari recalls his childhood fascination with the black-American boxer who knocked around Bangalore in the 1

India sends more young people to universities abroad than any country in the world, barring China, with English-speaking countries like the United States, Australia, Canada and Britain the most attractive destinations. While Germany, Russia, Ukraine,

Himachal Pradesh recently hosted Rising Himachal 2019, a global investors' meet in Dharamsala, to attract private sector investment. The state is now planning to make a push towards labour reforms in the forthcoming winter session of the assembly. Th

Opposition leader and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) president N. Chandrababu Naidu has hit the streets of proposed state capital Amaravati ahead of the assembly winter session, beginning on December 9. He plans to highlight the uncertain future of the gre

Two issues-carbon credits and funding to deal with the loss and damage caused by climate change-will dominate proceedings at the ongoing 25th Conference of the Parties (COP) in Madrid, Spain. Hovering over the COP are larger questions-the deep cuts i

The December 5 bypolls for 15 assembly seats in Karnataka are turning into a nerve-wracking contest for the BJP, which must overcome local discontent and win at least six seats to remain in power. The bypolls were necessitated as the strength of the

A move that the NDA government says will help reduce firearm crimes in India predictably has licensed gun owners up in arms. The Centre's proposal to reduce the number of firearms that an individual can own from the current maximum of three to just o

It's depressingly familiar. She sounds like she was a lovely person-a scooter-riding veterinarian, just what I wanted to be when I was a little girl. Now she is dead; raped and killed, her burnt body left under a culvert off National Highway 44. The

There are signs of deep malaise in the Indian economy. Growth is slowing significantly and there is currently little fiscal space available to the government to spend more. Corporate and household debt is rising, and there is deep distress in parts o

Eleven years ago, Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists used the sea route to strike at Mumbai. A decade after the horrific attacks, Chief of the Naval Staff, Admiral Karambir Singh says that the threat of seaborne attacks remains just as great now, even as the

Over the past few months, the Indian economy's growth engines-from real estate to agriculture to exports and internal consumption-have coughed and sputtered to a halt. The economy is now in free fall. Figures recently released by the government have

At about 6.10 pm, just as it was getting dark on November 27, Disha (name changed to protect identity), parked her red Hero Maestro scooter near the Tondupally toll plaza in Shamshabad on the Nehru Outer Ring Road (ORR) skirting Hyderabad. The 27-yea

I'd been waiting a couple of days to hear back from the writer Perumal Murugan, via an editor who promised to translate my questions into Tamil and his replies to English. That this kind of exchange is possible at all is amazing, and a sign of the vi

Having just swallowed humilation in Maharashtra and the embarrassment of a further slide in national GDP-which is down to 4.5 per cent-not to mention the runaway increase in onion prices, the ongoing assembly election in Jharkhand will test and measu

High onion prices have returned to haunt the government. In Mumbai, onions are currently retailing at Rs 120 a kilo, compared with the Rs 10-30 a kilo they were sold at as recently as August this year. The main reason for these eye-watering prices ha

When the erstwhile Reliance Infocomm launched its landmark service in December 2002 with the catchline 'Kar lo duniya mutthi mein (The world in your fist)', many called it a revolution in the Indian telecom sector. For the first time, mobile telephon

Improving ties with neighbours has been a leitmotif of Indian foreign policy under all governments. An optimal policy has to address many difficulties: our smaller neighbours feel threatened by our size, they bristle at any perceived violation of the