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Stop Managing Virat Kohli's Decline. He's Not Declining.
An unbeaten 139 in Thiruvananthapuram put him level with Tendulkar on List A hundreds and one milestone behind him on the ODI run charts. It's time to retire the retirement talk.
Tulsi’s YouTube Village Works Because It Treats Fame as a Group Project
The interesting thing about Chhattisgarh’s creator village is not that rural India has discovered social media. It is that Tulsi has built a shared production culture in an economy designed to make every creator compete alone.
The Tata Punch EV Is a Home-Charger Car Pretending to Be a Public-Charger Car
The Punch EV is an excellent urban runabout, but showroom talk about range and fast charging obscures the condition that decides whether it is convenient: a reliable socket where you park every night. Without one, I would buy the petrol Punch instead.
Two Years On, the Nothing Phone (2a) Is Better Than Its Silly Lights
The Glyph interface was always more shop-window theatre than useful technology. What makes the Phone (2a) worth keeping is the less glamorous combination of clean software, dependable battery life and a design that has not become anonymous.
The Election Commission Owes India Answers, Not Rahul Gandhi a Resignation
Questions about electoral-roll revision deserve documentary answers, but the INDIA alliance has skipped straight from disputed procedure to institutional guilt. I want the Election Commission to disclose more—and the opposition to prove much more.
Mirzapur’s Box-Office Triumph Could Teach Bollywood the Wrong Lesson
A streaming-born franchise succeeding in cinemas proves that audiences will cross formats for a world they know. It does not prove that every popular series should be inflated into a louder, longer film.
The Asian Games Should Not Be India’s Four-Year Audition for Our Attention
India’s non-cricket athletes do not need a fortnight of patriotic enthusiasm followed by silence. They need a sports culture that treats the years between medal ceremonies as the real event.