The sound of leather crashing into timber behind him, India’s No. 11 Mohammed Siraj sank to his haunches, inconsolable on the last day of the Lord’s Test. His 30-ball vigil was over, and so too India’s hopes of taking a 2-1 lead in the five-match Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy. Needing 192 to win, India had folded up…
“Like the battle of Karbala, this war must be fought till the end,” Reza Ahmadi, a juice vendor in his 30s, told me, as he went about his business on the busy Naser Khosro street in Shiraz, a historical town of gardens, wine and poetry in southwest Iran’s Fars province. It was just two days…
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Donald Trump has made quite a habit of pulling rabbits out of his hat, especially while dealing with international conflicts. Just when the 12-day Israel-Iran war threatened to engulf the Middle East and along with it his own presidency, Trump bullied the two countries into agreeing to a seemingly impossible truce on June 24. It…
Was it an acting class or a class act? At a workshop organised by Anupam Kher (he plans an acting school next year), the teachers included the man himself, Naseeruddin Shah and Seema Biswas (“Anupam insisted and I agreed”). ISSUE DATE: Dec 22, 1997 | UPDATED: May 21, 2013 13:25 IST Source link
A quiet revolution has reshaped India’s financial landscape over the past five years. What began during the Covid-19 lockdown as a digital detour for bored young Indians has morphed into a full-fledged retail investing movement, fuelled by smartphone apps and financial influencers. Together, they’ve turned stock trading from a specialist’s game into a mass-market phenomenon—one…
Lunchbreaks are when Anjali Mehta, a 29-year-old schoolteacher in Kanpur, finds time to think about her investments. She checks the latest options on her cell phone and recently earmarked Rs 5,000 for her fifth contribution to a mutual fund this year. The amount was small. But the decision was anything but casual. “I consider these…
