Story Posted on 19-06-2019
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Below The Belt | 5-minute read
Why do advertisers assume that only men enjoy sports and that women abhor the idea of their partners prioritizing the World Cup over them?
The fracas in Mukherjee Nagar shows several lines, of religious identity, secular permission and civil rights, being breached. No one emerges from this looking good.
Priyanka Chopra recently donned a pair of khaki shorts and got trolled for dressing the 'RSS way'. But PeeCee doesn't care. Do you know why?
Do some hard thinking. Maybe you do not have the mettle, and the nastiness, required to be a politician in South Asia. Maybe you didn’t want it in the first place.
I am glad nobody in Parliament pretended to be sanctimonious, neither those who raised the slogans, nor those who sat and did nothing to stop it.
From a late visit by CM Nitish Kumar to hospitals, to a minister asking for cricket scores during a meeting on the crisis, India's political leadership is failing its children.