Brain Gain: The Need of the Hour

It is a well-established reality that economic opportunities within India are unevenly distributed. Only certain regions are capable of providing sustainable livelihoods to large populations, making migration within the country a natural phenomenon. However, when highly educated and skilled professionals migrate abroad in search of better financial rewards, career growth, and superior living standards, the…

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When Brokers Challenge Truth: How Power, Patronage and Fear Continue to Choke Hyderabad Cricket

When an exposé begins to hurt, those thriving on rot inevitably strike back—not with facts, but with intimidation, insinuation and entitlement. That moment has arrived. Following the publication of this e-paper’s article, “When Merit Is Benched: How HCA Keeps Sabotaging Its Own Future,” a private academy promoter—widely known in cricketing circles as a “broker,” though…

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When Merit Is Benched: How HCA Keeps Sabotaging Its Own Future

Special Correspondent Indian cricket’s greatest enemy has never been lacking of talent. It has always been the small, suffocating cabals that fear talent. The Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) seems determined to prove that this disease is alive, thriving, and once again ruining the career of a promising young cricketer—not because he failed, but because he…

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Modi’s Dignified Drubbing of Rahul

It takes a seasoned statesman to turn a baseless jab into a masterclass in democratic decorum. And it takes Rahul Gandhi—the self-styled philosopher prince of Indian politics—to offer that opportunity with clockwork regularity. The latest viral video from Parliament captures a moment that perfectly distils the difference between a responsible Prime Minister and an eternally…

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