When doing more is how you survive

I meet them in coaching rooms all the time. People who do not fall apart. They optimise. They arrive on time, reply fast, remember everything, and handle crises with the calm of an air-traffic controller. Their lives look “sorted”. Their LinkedIn is clean. Their calendar is colour-coded. Their family calls them dependable. Their team calls…

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Dhaka’s loss

Bangladesh cricketers victims of its cricket administration’s politics It’s uglier than the worst sledging – and now feuding Bangladesh Cricket Board wants to take ICC to a tribunal. Per reports, BCB has written to ICC asking its independent Dispute Resolution Committee to decide on its appeal to shift Bangladesh’s T20 World Cup matches from India…

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Huang or Musk?

Nvidia boss’s vision of future better than Tesla chief’s Who’s right, Nvidia chief Jensen Huang, or Elon Musk? At Davos on Wednesday, Huang assured “plumbers, electricians, and construction and steelworkers,” their jobs are safe. Reason: you can take all the AI in the world, and still struggle to thread a needle with it. A day…

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Backlash with a gender

For long, women have relied on improvised survival tactics in public transport, a safety pin jab to ward off wandering hands, or the quiet decision to turn away in silent disgust as a co-passenger masturbates nearby. These were not isolated shocks but part of everyday reality. In recent years, mobile phones became another tool: Women…

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The Himalaya’s vanishing snow?

Though it’s finally snowing heavily in Uttarakhand, white mountaintops in winters are no longer guaranteed. Because two major weather systems, monsoon and Western Disturbance, have changed behaviour The Himalayan region, encompassing the river systems of the mighty Indus, Ganga, and Brahmaputra, contains over 42,000 km 2 of areas covered by glaciers and nearly 1.6mn km…

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Dhaka’s Loss

Bangladesh’s cricketers are stuck in the middle of a fight created by cricket officials, not by the players. Just before the T20 World Cup (starting in India on February 7), the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) asked the world cricket body, the ICC, to move Bangladesh’s matches from India to Sri Lanka. The ICC said no….

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Guru that Subhas would have accepted

By Anshul Chaturvedi “A relative of mine, who was a newcomer to the town, was living next door and I had to visit him. Glancing over his books, i came across the works of Swami Vivekananda. I had hardly turned over a few pages when I realised that here was something which i had been…

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