The ad for MakeMyTrip's homestays and villas business 'invited' travellers from Pakistan to use its services with discount codes if Pakistan lost by a certain number of runs on its ICC Men's Cricket World Cup clash with India in Ahmedabad.
What was perhaps intended as a joke prompted many users on social media platforms like LinkedIn and 'X' to call it insensitive and full of racial tonalities.
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What the IPL auction holds for franchises
Player retentions revealed their thinking; now team owners have to make the most of what remains in the purse
Donald Trump has got the driver swing
It looks wild, but President elect Donald Trump is totally in control of his golf swing
Kalonji, the tiny seeds that pack a punch
Here's one ingredient that features in both my kitchen and bathroom cabinet: kalonji.
All you need to know about Gesha
The ultra-smooth, super premium Gesha coffee, with origins in Ethiopia, is winning fans in India
The science and art of menu creation
While seasons, produce quality and creativity are key, it is the patron who decides the success or failure of a menu
Women who travel for wellness
Women dealing with mid-career and mid-life decisions are turning to healing programmes tailored by women
The sound of wellness
Singing bowls. Sound gardens. Silent clubs. A wave of wellness and lifestyle trends and community initiatives are using sound-and the lack of it-to be heard over the constant buzz of a noisy, overstimulated world
A counterintuitive view on education
A book about Shomie Das, principal of three posh schools, serves as a rich distillation of his thoughts on education
The loss of sound in our noisy lives
Sound memory fades faster than visual memory. In a world as rapidly changing as ours, a museum of endangered sounds makes sense
A whole new League
When Arcane first dropped on Netflix, it didn't just break the mold for animated television—it shattered it into shiny fragments, each as intricate as the show's hand-painted aesthetic.
