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

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...

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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 1

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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 4

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Barry Rodgers

Bazball is worth saving — a call England must make despite losses

Bazball is worth saving — a call England must make despite losses

If Bazball is dead — and obituaries are being written furiously — it would be a pity. England didn’t invent the attacking, free-flowing style,...

10.12.2025 2

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Suresh Menon

Sorry, but the captain’s apology is now part of the game

Sorry, but the captain’s apology is now part of the game

Captains apologising for team failures is approaching the status of a cliché in the modern game. It is undoubtedly a noble gesture, this acceptance...

03.12.2025 1

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Suresh Menon

Column by Saba Mahjoor | When Phuphee made room to breathe

On a warm afternoon, we were sitting in Phuphee’s kitchen toasting makkai (corn) to make soatt (ground corn). Phuphee would make large batches of ...

28.11.2025 2

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Saba Mahjoor