Our sportswomen have brought home global laurels. They have battled social and economic odds to get to where they are. Yet, as the ongoing protests against the wrestling federation chief show, taking on patriarchy, sexism, power and bullying remains an unwinnable fight |
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| A multipolar and divided world no longer offers the kind of arena in which the US and the erstwhile Soviet Union once strutted their stuff. The Americans still like to talk about being Number 1, but even they no longer know what this means. |
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| I spoke to two women doctors who are specialists in sports science about their pregnancies and the importance of keeping active. Here's what they said: |
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| The death of French nun Lucile Randon, known as Sister André, at age 118 — in fact, 25 days short of her 119th birthday — has revived the perennial question: how long can a person realistically hope to live? |
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| The State appears to believe that the nature of the Indian private sector has been responsible for the weaknesses in manufacturing. The private sector believes that State policies are responsible for it. Where did India falter when others in Asia succeeded? |
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| India's fast bowling depth has been put to its severest test without Bumrah but it has held up well so far. |
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| Dutch Siegfried Aikman, in charge since 2021, says he has not been paid for months. |
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| Trial by Fire quietly unpeels the dignity and grit of families who should never have had to be so brave, but were |
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| Data tells us that most housing in urban India is built in some degree of tension with the law. One study, by private consultancy FSG, uses census data to estimate that 33%-47% of housing in urban India is what they term informal. That’s one in every two or three houses |
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| Mumbai In his definitive book on the city, Suketu Mehta observes: “Bombay is a city humming, throbbing with sexual energy, a city of migrant men without women; a city in heat |
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| India’s big cat numbers are rising. But one in every three lives outside reserves, leading to human-animal conflicts. Give a thought to not just tigers outside protected areas, but also to many species fighting to survive in an altered world |
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| The last two years have also demonstrated room for world-beating achievements when the executive push, public-private partnership and Indian ingenuity come together |
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