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Thoughts from India's win at Lord's: Doomed Shaz, Super Waz, heroic India

Bhuvneshwar, Rahane, Vijay, Jadeja, Sharma – good, solid Indian names, and they emerged as heroes – now, when Kohli and Dhawan click in the next three Tests, watch out.

Non-Brahmin, women priests at Vittal temple, but orthodoxy still lives

Of the 199 applications from non-Brahmins and women, 10 have been appointed.

The real tragedy of Indian basketball

Indians learned to love the game because it is relatively simple to play, requires little space and infrastructure and thanks to substitutions can accommodate many players at once.

'Look Who's Talking with Niranjan' recap: Karan Johar is a 42-year-old virgin

Look Who’s Talking With Niranjan is the new celebrity interview show in town. What? Another celebrity interview show? What’s the novelty in that? Well, it seems the novelty is the host this time around and not the guests – because the guests have been interviewed to death before.

Now, accidents rival poaching as key threat to leopards in India

Figures from Karnataka show that for every three leopards poached, two come under vehicular traffic. And few of these killer roads pass through sanctuaries or national parks.

Yudh Week 3: Lesbian frisson, flirtatious Maoists, bomb blasts and more

There are definite signs of improvement in Yudh, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

22 Jump Street review: Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum bring the bromance back

22 Jump Street continues the goofy adventures of the 21 Jump Street duo, Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) as they graduate to going undercover at a university.

Thane: Don't believe glossy real estate ads, this city is no escape from Mumbai

Thane suffers from a highly politicised municipal governance that is ineffective -- its green cover claims are dubious, it has no idea how to deal with the fastest growing population and its infrastructure is crumbling.

Forget good rains, Mumbai doesn't deserve even a normal monsoon

There is no other way of overcoming the administrative ills. Just change the factors that expose the inadequacies and believe all is well.

Justice Katju's revelations: Why we can't treat IB reports as sacred cows

When it comes to judicial appointments, everyone quotes the IB report as if it was a sacred cow that cannot be commented upon. This needs questioning.

When time is stretchable: What CBI's latest failure in Badaun gangrape shows

If anything could tell us about how we as a country have utter disregard for time, then it is from the inundation of the graves of the two Badaun girls.

Pizza 3D review: Not a pathbreaking horror film at all, this one

Pizza 3D's fatal problem - when you know when the jump scares are going to pop up and it’s difficult to be scared.

Amit Sahni ki List review: Vir Das stars in a boring, shallow rom-com

Amit Sahni Ki List, a fluffy rom-com directed by Ajay Bhuyan, is so eminently forgettable that I had to google the director’s name half an hour after seeing the credits roll.

Yudh week 1: Amitabh Bachchan stars in a case of 'what the hell is going on'?

I’ve realised what the inspiration for Yudh is: David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive.

Review: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is one of the best sequels ever

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is an astonishing achievement. The easiest way to describe it would be to say it is the best sequel since The Dark Knight.

Why is the media ignoring the plight of drought striken farmers?

One does not expect breast-beating reportage, but we are entitled to know if farmers bought their seeds even as they tried tilling their lands anticipating the monsoon

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes review: The film deserves an Oscar

Andy Serkis is God. That’s it. Those four words up there are pretty much all you need to hear in terms of a reason to go watch Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes in theatres.

The Anupam Kher Show: Shah Rukh spills a few secrets

On Sunday night, a brand new celebrity interview show began – The Anupam Kher Show, with the tagline Kucch Bhi Ho Sakta Hai. The show has Kher, a Bollywood veteran, interviewing other Bollywood stars on a couch.

'Muslim Personal Law is a stick for Hindu communalists to beat Muslims with'

Muslim Personal Law is a convenient stick for Hindu communalists to beat Muslims with.

Bobby Jasoos review: Vidya Balan is good but the film has fatal flaws

Bobby Jasoos is a polished product that hides very basic flaws.

Lessons from the success story of Great Himalayan National Park

This treasure trove of nature now has a world heritage site tag to flaunt, as a testimony to its ecological worth and conservation efforts. Will the fairy tale hold under pressure for infrastructure building?

Ek Villain: Shockingly, this Riteish Deshmukh film isn't bad

Suri takes the core of I Saw The Devil and turns it into a melodramatic, manipulative, pyaar-mohabbat-dardi-humdardi drama.

Hindi has put Indian culture on the world map

The primary aim of any language is to communicate. We can never imagine our lives without languages, can we? This is because we cannot live without communication. And this is precisely why languages have always played a dominant role in shaping our histories and have influenced the way we think and perceive things.

Destroying files on Modi's orders: Have parts of Indian history been lost forever?

Many a baby may have been thrown out with the bathwater if emptying the shelves was the only intent.

A house for Mr Arvind Kejriwal: Why Delhi won't have him as a tenant

Arvind Kejriwal is out to tackle the county’s biggest problems – law and order to corruption, people’s participation in decision making to housing – but he is apparently facing a huge personal issue. No one is willing to give him a house on rent in Delhi. Unless he has one, he cannot vacate the Tilak Lane residence which he had got on becoming Delhi’s chief minister.

Humshakals review: How Saif, Riteish teamed up to give your brain damage

The only useful aspect of Humshakals is that it could be used for pest control. You could play the DVD and step out, and when you return home every insect and vermin in your house will be dead.

200 crore roadside trees: How Nitin Gadkari's math is flawed

Not just highways, every road in India will have to be lined with trees to achieve Nitin Gadkari’s target. Will his government then turn to claim natural forests in the name of development?

'Modi is reducing class divide by prioritising Hindi on social media.'

Don't misunderstand Modi's stress on Hindi. He is ensuring that people who speak their mother tongue are not inferior compared to the elite English class.

Chef review: As feel good as comfort food, but forgettable

Jon Favreau may not be the first person you think of for a food film, but with this newest release Chef, the actor-director brings to the table a sweet but unsentimental dramedy that utilises food porn the way his past blockbusters have used CGI.

'Govt should set up board to regulate NGO funding'

The government should either ban foreign funding of all NGOs altogether or allow this funding only when routed through a specially created autonomous Board.