For decades, an unwritten rule governed Indian domestic cricket: It’s no news if Mumbai wins, but it’s a national headline if Mumbai loses. This wasn’t arrogance, but a testament to a culture of relentless excellence. Today, that aura of invincibility feels like a relic. As standards slip, we must ask: Where did we lose our […]

Since he made his name in Pataliputra, Chanakya was, technically/geographically, a Bihari.  So is his Patna-based, present-day acolyte, Ma’at Sahib (Nana Patekar), in Prakash Jha’s series, Sankalp (Amazon MX Player); a political drama of sorts.  You can obviously notice the large portrait of Chanakya at Ma’at Saab’s study. Ma’at Saab, as the name suggests, is […]

The state government announced plans to form a committee to monitor bogus doctors and unauthorised nursing homes in Maharashtra. The panel will identify individuals practising medicine sans qualification and clinics operating without permission. The government has also stated it plans to amend the existing law to increase penalties for such violations, including stricter fines and […]

The state government’s much-publicised ‘copy-free examination’ mission during the February-March 2026 SSC and HSC board exams has suffered a major setback, with at least 14 malpractice cases detected across the state and 103 staff suspended, our report stated. According to official records released by the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education on […]

Recently, while on a visit to Kolkata, this columnist ended up scouring the city. In the process of the extensive travel across the large metro, I spotted endless views where brick red facade buildings were in full view, in all its corners. It made me arrive at the conclusion that it might perhaps be the […]

The Mumbai Police recently issued an order, declaring all 27 Mumbai Metro Aqua Line-3 station entry and exit gates ‘no parking zones.’ In an official traffic notification, Mumbai Police said Metro Line-3 (Aqua Line) is fully functional and operational, spanning 33.5 km. It has 27 underground stations and each of it has entry/exit gates at […]

It has been a few decades since I visited the Veermata Jijabai Bhosale Botanical Udyan and Zoo in Byculla. My first and last trip was managed by my school (in what feels like another life) and the idea of stopping by that beautiful venue has never crossed my mind in all the years since, presumably […]

India`s loss to South Africa in the first game of the Super Eight stage of the ICC T20 World Cup is the perfect example of the kind of wake-up call champions need to get rid of any complacency and tighten up their game for the next rounds. It happens in individual sports too, where a […]

Most of the tall gopurams we see in South India today were built by Nayaka kings of Telugu origin. Most are three to four centuries old, built during and after the Vijayangar period. Nayaka rulers reimagined Ram and Krishna as political and theological answers to the Islamic and Indo-Persian imperial culture that shaped North and […]

Lobo Lobo wasn’t in the best of moods. “Arre men Dikuna, tenshun tenshun tenshun, wot to say, she’s eating my head, full bheja fry men. She toh told me to, ufffff men, sumtimes I tink, I should have married anudder dame,” my cable technician said, completely distraught. “Slow down Lobo Lobo, what’s happened and who […]