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The five best World Cup centuries I have seen

BIG FELLAS!

In a World Cup which is expected to be a tropical storm of runs and tall totals fuelled by T20-inspired sixes, you ignore the double-duty, multi-tasking disrupter at your peril. Be it the pure all-rounder or the leaders of either bowling packs or teams themselves, those who can bring their best or bring out the best in their teammates during clutch games will have impact that reverberates through the tournament. Here is the impact player from each team.

IMRAN IN BRIEFS, VICIOUS BUMRAH, AND DANCING WITH RANVEER

Sunny & Sunny discuss the World Cup's thrills and possibilities. THE WEEK presents Yajurvindra Singh (Team India, 1979) in conversation with Sunil Gavaskar (Team India, 1975, 1979, 1983, 1987)

The human race

I don't follow any 'Humans of' pages on Instagram. To me, they seem to be a mix of Reader's Digest's Drama in Real Life series and the Chicken Soup for the Soul books, and I find them too on-the-nose or treacly sweet. Besides, I keep getting the feeling that Bollywood story scouts are reading them breathlessly over my shoulder, trying to find plots for the next luridly uplifting 'based on a true story' blockbuster.

Sunak's downward spiral

Pollsters see British governments come and go-usually into oblivion. YouGov's chief polling researcher, Anthony Wells, has analysed several governments, prime ministers and opposition leaders also known as restless prime ministers-in-waiting.

See some evil too, Trudeau

He was Michelangelo's David dressed in a Saville Row suit-handsome face, sharp and a commitment to ... democratic openness\"; one about whom Vanity Fair warned people to \"have a fainting couch on standby as you watch him in action\".

Ultimate goal is to boost regional connectivity

ISRAEL PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu has lauded the US-backed plan to build a rail and shipping corridor linking India with the Middle East, Israel and Europe as the “great cooperation agreement” in Israel’s history.

DEFEATING DEPRESSION

For more than two decades Sarah Reeves battled suicidal tendencies. Now, after undergoing deep brain stimulation surgery in India, the Australian is rediscovering her zest for life

Cold And Sour

Trudeau sacrifices ties with India to save his sagging political career

Don't lose heart

Heart attacks are on the rise in young adults, but they are also preventable

Al will play a major role in drug discovery and development

There are theories about why Hippocrates, the father of medicine, named a cluster of abnormal cells karkinos (Greek for crab). Was it because the tumour felt hard as a rock, reminding him of the crab's shell?

CODE OF COMPASSION

Patients are at the heart of Magsaysay awardee Ravi Kannan's medical philosophy

Weaning woes and ways

THE PROCESS OF weaning a baby off its mother's milk has undergone a sea change. Babyled weaning (where the baby is introduced to solid food that he can eat on his own), breastfeeding till the age of two and gentle weaning (replacing one feeding with semi-solid or liquid food) have become part of the art and science of breastfeeding today.

STAYING FIT WHEN YOUNG COULD REDUCE RISK FOR 9 CANCERS

People with high cardiorespiratory fitness when young have a lower risk of developing nine types of cancer, including head and neck, lung, kidney, bowel, liver, oesophagus, stomach, rectum and pancreas.

Within reach, finally

The 'special' in the special Parliament session was finally revealed. It was not an early election, the announcement of 'one nation, one election, or a move to implement the Uniform Civil Code.

Notting Hill to Kala Ghoda

London's famous Indian bridal wear boutique comes home to India

Going to a drag party

Last weekend I did something I should have done a decade ago. I went to a drag party. It was the most sensational experience I have had in too long, and let me tell you why.

SHAPE-SHIFTING CIRCUS

To recover from the post-pandemic blues, some Indian circuses are reinventing themselves

DREAMING THE IMPOSSIBLE

CLIMATE RESEARCHER JOYEETA GUPTA WON THE SPINOZA PRIZE FOR HER SCIENTIFIC WORK FOR A JUST AND SUSTAINABLE WORLD. THE UNDERLYING THEME OF HER LIFE STORY: WHY CAN'T WE DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY?

FLIGHT RISK

India is on the cusp of an aviation boom. But a duopoly might ruin it

PODIUM PICKS

India's medal hopefuls at the Asian Games

When anchors spread rancour

Public culture in India, especially in the past decade, is not a fan of accountability.

Islamisation and hindutva

As I have described in my recently released Memoirs of a Maverick, I reached Karachi just a few weeks before President Zia ul-Haq declared the Nizam-e-Mustafa, the rule of the Prophet-the first step in what came to be called \"Islamisation\".

No country likes a killing on its soil

GURMANT GREWAL was a member of the Canadian parliament thrice and was the first Sikh to hold the position of the deputy house leader of the official opposition of Canada.

Haifa is potential alternative to Suez Canal

TRADITIONALLY, GOODS flowing between India and Europe have relied heavily on routes passing through the Suez Canal.

A passage for India

The India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor bypassing the Suez Canal promises to change trade dynamics in the Gulf. Acquisition of the Haifa Port in Israel has placed India at a vantage point in the project that connects the east and the west

Kharge's Bhagirathan tasks

Is the Congress finally biting the bullet? After last week’s working committee confab in Hyderabad, general secretary K.C. Venugopal said the 2024 polls will be “a do-or-die fight.”

I Think Like An Athlete

Deepika Padukone actor

The Business Of Being Deepika Padukone

What Makes The Movie Star India's Most Successful Female Celebrity

Power dressing, G20 style

Now that the G20 Summit is done and dusted, host city Delhi can get back to its quotidian routine.