As technology flattens the world, the way we operate our daily lives — travel, entertain, educate, shop, communicate and even obtain food — is undergoing a radical change. This has impacted a variety of stakeholders in the country differently – there are obvious winners and losers. The nature of our success in dealing with this … Read more
A deep learning crisis has set in during the Covid pandemic. The National Achievement Survey (NAS) has captured a fall of nine percentage points between 2017 and 2021 in the performance of students in subjects ranging from maths to social science (IE, May 25). Since the absence of a formal, structured learning environment is being … Read more
Nitish Kumar, now serving his fifth term as Chief Minister of Bihar, has kept a deliberate silence over the past four days as Bihar burns and faces the main brunt of the anti-Agnipath stir. The setting on fire of trains, entire railway stations, and the assaults on the homes, offices and cars of leaders of … Read more
At the Indian Premier League 2022 auction, only four of the ten franchises bid for India’s premier swing bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar. His old franchise Sunrisers Hyderabad, which hadn’t retained him ahead of the auction, was able to buy him back for Rs 4.2 crore, at less than half of his retention price of Rs 8.5 … Read more
Kishore Kumar’s son Amit Kumar is our guest on this week’s #BigInterview. Amit Kumar’s latest creation ‘Yeh Kaisi Saza Hai’ is going to be out soon. As you read this, he is in Kolkata. Last evening, he was in Bangalore. From Kolkata, he flies out to Indore. Amit Kumar is busy doing shows and enthralling … Read more
Young Karan Sharma led from the front with a calm and composed 93 not out as Uttar Pradesh knocked out favorites Karnataka with a five-wicket win in their Ranji Trophy quarterfinals in Alur on Wednesday. This was UP’s first ever win over Karnataka on 13 occasions and it could not have come at a better … Read more
Shivam Mavi and Saurabh Kumar shared seven wickets between them as Uttar Pradesh reduced hosts Karnataka to 213 for seven on the opening day of their Ranji Trophy quarterfinal match Alur, Karnataka on Monday. Kolkata Knight Riders pacer Mavi caused maximum damage and broke the back of Karnataka’s batting, grabbing the two big wickets of … Read more
The new Lieutenant Governor of Delhi, Vinai Kumar Saxena, has had an unusual career graph – from the corporate sector to NGO activism to the world of khadi, to here. In that long road, the path to arguably the hottest gubernatorial seat in the country was paved by his stints in Gujarat and as head … Read more
While many Indian fashion brands can be credited for putting Indian fashion on the global map, there are few who have given forgotten Indian textiles And crafts the respect and recognition they deserve on a global scale — The House of Ritu Kumar takes the title home. Helmed by the ‘matriarch of Indian fashion’, craft … Read more
It has been thirty years of Jo Jeeta Who Sikandarone of the few Hindi films that have blended the concepts of love, friendship, enmity, sportsmanship and class divide and yet, by the end of it, it is a story that inspires, touches and stays with you. Director Mansoor Khan called Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar ‘a … Read more