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Sushant Singh Rajput, the Bollywood Outsider, Who Showed India How to Live Life on His Own Terms

Sushant Singh Rajput starred in Chhichhore last year, a film that centred around suicide, and the way we treat life as some kind of competition. What he leaves behind is proof of an attempt at living a life, of trying to make sense of its intricacies and puzzles, of giving it all to decode it.

Poulomi Das June 6, 2016

Sports

Hey People, Leave MS Dhoni Alone

Let’s not script a farewell for MS Dhoni. He knows better than anybody else when it’s time to call it a day.

Anahad Madhav June 3, 2016

Bollywood

Why Sushant Singh Rajput’s Byomkesh Bakshy Stands Out from the Rest

Dibakar Banerjee’s Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! is a masterful, atmospheric murder mystery but an even better coming-of-age film. Sushant Singh Rajput doesn’t essay Byomkesh as the standard brooding type. Instead, he captures a boyish charm that allows us to witness the making of a detective.

Poulomi Das June 1, 2016

Sports

Anger Games: Why We Should Be Worried When MS Dhoni Loses His Cool

There’s no denying that the situation which Dhoni found himself in was a high-stakes one. But there’s no situation in which storming onto the field to argue with the umpires and opponents is justified, especially when you’ve made your name as “Captain Cool”.

Saksham Mishra May 22, 2016

Sports

Cricket Fever: Mumbai Indians and Everything that is Wrong With Sports Documentaries

Barring a few moments of colour, the new Mumbai Indians documentary on Netflix is irredeemably dull. Featuring a team enduring a tough season, Cricket Fever: Mumbai Indians could have been more intriguing. But it comes off more like an exercise in image management.

Priyansh May 14, 2016

Sports

Our Slow Separation with MS Dhoni

MS Dhoni always seemed to have another trick up his sleeve, another run to steal, a lightning-fast stumping that took everyone by surprise. But not all endings are heroic. The last one year seemed like a slow separation, his way of letting his fans get used to the Indian cricket team without him.

Pawan May 5, 2016

POV

The Sweet September When Cricket Was Reborn

You remember sport for the moments, not the statistics, and ten years ago, the inaugural T20 World Cup is the moment cricket changed forever.

Pawan May 4, 2016

Sports

Will the 2019 World Cup Be All About Dhoni?

Though 2011 will forever be MS Dhoni’s crowning glory as captain, that edition of the World Cup was all about Sachin Tendulkar. Eight years on, as India begin their 2019 World Cup campaign against South Africa, it seems as if MSD has been shedding all the baggage and getting ready for his final act in cricket.

Pawan May 1, 2016

Sports

For India, MS Dhoni Is a Demigod. It’s Time to Humanise Him

MS Dhoni is not a cricketer or former captain to many. He’s a demigod whose myth is varnished by his unquestioning, overzealous worshippers. But it’s time to humanise him.

Priyansh April 28, 2016

Money Matters

Is Nirmala Sitharaman the MS Dhoni of Finance Ministers?

As the buzz around the slowdown in the economy grew louder, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman took some small steps – support for the auto sector, a fine-tuning of FDI, and liquidity support for banks. And then, like MS Dhoni in the final over of a run chase, she sent the ball thundering out of the stadium with her decision to reduce the corporate tax rate.

Adhirath Sethi April 20, 2016