Spin is an Indian strength and we should own it, as long as wickets don't excessively favour one side.
Kushal Poddar
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The year will also see how Congress leader Rahul Gandhi engages with politics after Bharat Jodo Yatra and the attempts of Aam Aadmi Party convenor Arvind Kejriwal and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee to expand their base.
For me as a journalist, the year 2022 began with election coverage in Uttar Pradesh followed by a visit to Kashmir and ended with the Gujarat assembly elections.
'Like the 2001 earthquake, it was an accident. Gujarat got a bad name because of 2002. That is not how Gujaratis behave,' Gujarat BJP chief spokesperson Yamal Vyas told Outlook.
The induction of aircraft carrier INS Vikrant into the Indian Navy has come at a time of increasing strategic competition in Asian seas and debates over the role of carriers in context of a rising China.
The poet puts his memories of pandal hopping, eating and celebrating Durga Puja with his friends in verse.
Hubbli’s Eidgah Maidan holds a similar place in Karnataka as Ayodhya has in north India. If the temple movement strengthened the BJP in Hindi-speaking states, the Eidgah campaign of the 1990s led by the Sangh Parivar eventually brought the party to power in Karnataka.
The redeveloped Central Vista Avenue, which is being inaugurated on Thursday,?attempts to change one of India’s most iconic landscapes, an open space that carries millions of intimate tales.
'Nothing is too profane to write, albeit nothing is too sacred to ban. Some of the bannings, if we analyse, are revenge bans. That occurs when the sect prohibiting the book is offended by another ban of a certain book they revere. The rivalry between the schools of thoughts pollute the ideosphere. Rushdie and beyond…'
At 34, Danish Ansari is among the youngest ministers in India. He is also only one of the two Muslim ministers in the BJP-led governments —the other being Abdul Sattar in Bihar.
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