Sunil Gavaskar’s account of the epic win in Trinidad exactly 50 years ago today, in Mid Day Sunday Midday

Mangeshkars with their mother & kids (l to r) Usha, Asha, Hridaynath, Mai, Lata & Meena #RIP Asha Bhosle

Eshan Her recording career: 83 years. Indian independence: 79 years. She was cutting tracks before her own country was free.

Sources if you like to go deeper 🧵 Part 1 Sources: 1. Variety obituary variety.com/2026/music/obi… 2. Al Jazeera report aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/12… 3. Britannica biography britannica.com/biography/Asha… 4. Guinness World Records guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/… 5. Wikipedia

VICTORY DAY On 14th April 1944, the Azad Hind Fauj captured Moirang in Manipur and half of Nagaland from the clutches of the British Empire. It was a fierce battle one of the most difficult ever faced by the British forces in India, as admitted by British themselves. Col.Shaukat

The birth anniversary of Ullaskar Dutta. It's rare that one life story encompasses both an abiding revolutionary passion and an amazing love story. But Ullaskar was that man. Ullaskar was a Presidency College student, an activist rusticated for slapping a professor for making fun

Forty years today for Javed Miandad’s last ball six. A piece written by him in Sportsweek the following year in the build-up to the 1987 World Cup…

Wayne Daniel, a former Barbadian right-arm fast bowler who represented the West Indies from 1976 to 1984. 🇧🇧 The man who hit a six and took a wicket with the last ball of his Test career. He was part of that terrifying 70s/80s pace attack but often stayed in the shadows of the

Cradle of democracy 1,100 years ago---long before the Magna Carta---residents of Uthiramerur in Kancheepuram district of Tamil Nadu used to cast votes. Rajiv Gandhi visited it before initiating Panchayat Raj reforms. Business Standard Shine Jacob

Excellent stuff by HT.

In the early 1990s he spun rings around a young Sachin Tendulkar in a charity match. In the sixties, seventies and eighties, his nagging accuracy and clever variations made him a captain’s dream and a stroke player’s nightmare. Troubled Sobers when he was young, troubled Viv

This free kick was so insane that physicists wrote artictes about it

King Charles, "The first president I had the honor of meeting at the age of 10 in 1959 when he came to Balmoral, was President Eisenhower who had served as supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces during World War II" "At a most critical time in the darkest days of

King Charles has been a triumph on this US trip. His speeches yesterday were the most brilliant act of much-needed diplomacy that I can remember in a long time. He was charming, funny, courageous, and reminded everyone why the Monarchy remains one of Britain’s greatest assets.

5 Best Jokes From King Charles – Who Got Standing Ovation From Congress

King Charles is 77 yrs old, and by jove, a few Brits and Americans have finally realised that Charles is in fact a decent and very capable man. 77 years is ‘just the other day’ but in real terms the king doesn’t have another 77 yrs to show you the work he does behind those thick

सड़क से सत्ता तक के "संघर्ष का नाम है ममता बनर्जी..✨ साल 1977 में देशभर में जेपी यानि जयप्रकाश नारायण का आंदोलन उफान पर था, और निशाने पर थीं इंदिरा गांधी, जब उनका काफिला कलकत्ता पहुंचा, तो एक 22 साल की लड़की उनका विरोध करती हुई अचानक उनकी गाड़ी के सामने लेट गई। यह सिर्फ विरोध

Varanasi - Banaras - is my father’s home town. I remember visiting the Vishwanath temple on a number of occasions with my grandfather who went there almost every day. On a few occasions, I saw this gentleman with a twinkle in his eye who would greet my grandfather with a “Kaise

Kapil Dev’s Advice That Stayed With Amol Muzumdar Muzumdar who was at the Ranji Final as a ball boy said, “I asked Kapil Dev for an autograph. I was in my whites, and he looked at me and he said, ‘Are you a cricketer?’ I said, ‘Yes, sir, I am an Under-16 captain of Bombay.’ He