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Before Sholay, there was Mera Gaon Mera Desh
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When the comedian and television host Kapil Sharma recently welcomed the veteran screenwriter Salim Khan onto his show, he made a striking claim. India, he joked, has a national bird...
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Shield of India: Guru Tegh Bahadur and the Martyrdom That Shaped a Nation
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Guru Tegh Bahadur’s martyrdom 350 years on remains a defining moment in the subcontinent’s battle between power and principle.
Painting depicting the execution of Guru Tegh Bahadur.
On November 24,...
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The Night the World Stood Still
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Far more than an iconic boxing match, ‘Rumble in the Jungle’ was a spectacle of race, politics and redemption that turned Muhammad Ali into a global myth
It was October...
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The Unsung Defender of Calcutta
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79 years ago, a little-known meat trader Gopal Mukherjee stopped India’s prized city from being swallowed by Partition.
On August 27, 1946 Calcutta exhaled. Four days earlier, columns of British...
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The Madman Who Outsang the Gods
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Kishore Kumar was the complete artist. What made him great also made him misunderstood.
Had he lived, Kishore Kumar would have turned 96 on August 4. But the mercurial artist,...
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Humble Virtuoso
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Mohammad Rafi’s life offers lessons not just in melody but in grace, grit and reinvention.
On July 31, admirers of Mohammad Rafi marked the 45th anniversary of his death. But...
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Superstar, Interrupted
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No actor in India has commanded mass hysteria like Rajesh Khanna. His rise was meteoric, his decline Shakespearean.
“Upar aaka, neeche Kaka” went the saying in the early 1970s. Roughly...
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The Wrestler Who Became a Metaphor
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Dara Singh gave post-independence India more than victories in the ring; he gave it strength, spectacle and a new idiom.
There are few figures in India’s post-independence history whose fame...
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Underdogs to Overlords
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Kapil Dev’s audacious triumph at Lord’s in 1983 transformed India from an afterthought into the game’s undisputed superpower.
On June 25, 1983, cricket’s global power balance shifted irreversibly. That day,...
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The Failed Marshal: Pakistan’s Illusory Triumph and the Army’s Tightening Grip
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As India’s precise strikes during Operation Sindoor expose cracks in Pakistan’s defence, the promotion of Asim Munir to Field Marshal seeks to mask defeat, quell dissent and consolidate military control....
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The Boy Who Would Not Bow
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A forgotten martyr from Sialkot whose defiance shaped the soul of Punjab.
The year was 1734. In the town of Sialkot, nestled in what is now Pakistan, a twelve-year-old boy...
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Big George and the Art of Reinvention
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From knockout artist to comeback king, George Foreman’s journey was never just about boxing but about life itself.
George Foreman’s fists always spoke louder than words, and by the time...
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