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Sports
The rise of T20 cricket leagues has revolutionized the sport over the last two decades. The Twenty20 format, introduced in the early 2000s, shortened tradi…
Rise of America
When the guns of August opened in 1914 and Europe began tearing itself apart, most Americans wanted nothing to do with it. The war felt like exactly the ki…
Sports
Hardik Pandya is one of the most prominent all-rounders in modern Indian cricket. Known for his aggressive batting, medium-fast bowling, and energetic fiel…
Lifestyle
Mahendra Singh Dhoni, popularly known as MS Dhoni, is one of the most successful captains and wicketkeeper-batsmen in the history of cricket. He played for…
Rise of America
The United States is, by any historical measure, an extraordinarily successful political experiment. A republic founded in 1776 with a population of around…
History
World War II remade the planet. The old empires, Britain, France, the European colonial powers, were bankrupt and exhausted. The new superpowers, the Unite…
Rise of America
In 1845, a journalist named John O'Sullivan wrote that it was America's manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free de…
Sports
Virat Kohli is one of the most successful and influential cricketers in the history of the India national cricket team. Known for his exceptional batting s…
Sports
Sachin Tendulkar is widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. Known for his extraordinary technique, consistency, and dedic…
Connectivity & Trade
There’s a new game in town: the Middle Corridor. It’s a trade route connecting Central Asia to Europe via the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus, bypassing R…
Rise of America
In July 1944, representatives of forty-four nations gathered at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to design the postwar internati…
Environment & Politics
At every global climate summit, all eyes are on India. Why? Because we are the third-largest emitter, and we are a developing country that refuses to accep…
Rise of America
On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, a metal sphere about the size of a beach ball, into orbit around the Earth. It beeped. That was al…
Rise of America
When the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor brought the United States into World War Two on December 7, 1941, America was militarily unprepared but industrial…
Human Psychology
Before you answer the next question, spin an imaginary wheel of fortune. It stops on 65. Now: what percentage of African countries are members of the Unite…
Foreign Policy
The shift from ‘Look East’ to ‘Act East’ was more than just a name change. In the 90s, ‘Look East’ was about simply opening up to Southeast Asi…
History
February 1945. The war in Europe was ending. Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met at Yalta in the Crimea. They came to decide the future of the post-war wo…
History
Seventy-five years have passed since the end of World War II. The veterans are almost gone. The memories are fading. But we still remember. We build monume…