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1 week ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Palash Krishna Mehrotra |Vivek Katju |Vaishna Roy
Looks like it’s the age of shock retirements, as far as Indian cricket is concerned. We have had three in the recent past: Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, and Ravichandran Ashwin. Ashwin’s was the most dramatic, coming as it did in the middle of the India-Australia series in December last year. The abrupt nature of the announcements makes one suspect a lack of communication behind the scenes; the unexpectedness was the only “shocking” aspect.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
thewire.in | Palash Krishna Mehrotra
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Sep 29, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Palash Krishna Mehrotra
Indians are musically poor. We aren’t a good market for cutting-edge international bandsColdplay is an exception. Our taste in western music is orthodox, throwback, out-of-date. When Nirvana, Blur were big, we were still playing Pink …
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Sep 29, 2024 | 
theprint.in | Palash Krishna Mehrotra
The trend is to do surge pricing, just like cab hailing apps do during peak traffic hours. For instance, Ticketmaster’s dynamic pricing for American singer Bruce Springsteen’s 2023 US tour meant that some tickets were selling for as high as $5,000. The Boss defended the high price, telling Rolling Stone that it prevented undeserving touts from collecting the overflow.
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
thefederal.com | Palash Krishna Mehrotra
In her early forties, recently divorced, she reads the Bombay Poets and harbours literary ambitions of her own. An eight-feet-by-six Bhupen Khakhar hangs on her apartment wall, amongst the Bose speakers, “ground glass shades and rotary dimmers.” She loves driving her Corsa. Maya is not an Adarsh Balika, either in the workplace or in her personal life, peopled by “halfway-house men”: Softs, Alain and Santy.
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
thewire.in | Palash Krishna Mehrotra
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
openthemagazine.com | Palash Krishna Mehrotra
Just hours before the closing ceremony of the Paris Olympics, a man was spotted climbing the Eiffel Tower. He was heading towards the second floor, where he was stopped and arrested. Back on the ground, as he was led away by the police, wrists handcuffed behind his back, the shirtless man quipped: “Bloody warm, innit.” The French media later identified him as a British climber.
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Aug 31, 2024 | 
economictimes.indiatimes.com | Palash Krishna Mehrotra
This piece is not a lament for the death of the written word. The written word is alive. For, try as you might, it's not possible to give up on language altogether. Doing that would plunge us into silence, and trust me, even though people say they crave silence, most find silence unbearable.Which is why even those who indulge in solitary exercise like jogging, have earphones plugged. But the irony is: reading , as an act, is a form of silence.
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Aug 17, 2024 | 
economictimes.indiatimes.com | Palash Krishna Mehrotra
Last week, Don-bhai, in his X chat with Elon-bhai, called Kamala-devi, as she appears in the latest cover of Time magazine as 'like the most beautiful actress ever to live,' adding, just so that there's no rancour at home, 'It was a drawing, and actually, she looked very much like a great first lady, Melania.'But apart from the great Djokovic backhand compliment, Trump is really still perplexed if Kamala Harris is Indian or Black.
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Aug 17, 2024 | 
deccanherald.com | Palash Krishna Mehrotra
It’s a point underlined by the great Jordan Burroughs in a post on X. Rules are set in stone for the present, but not for the future. No.4 of his ‘Proposed Rule Changes for UWW’ argues: ‘After a semi-final victory, both finalists’ medals are secured even if weight is missed on Day 2. Gold can only be won by a wrestler who makes weight on the second day.’ Phogat deserved her silver.
