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The impossible charm of the sports film
Sports films may follow predictable beats and a rigid template, but they're a reminder that real life is as wonderful as anything ever imagined.
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Akhil Sood
The iPod goes out not with a bang but a whimper and a shrug
Apple has (finally) discontinued the iPod. It should have been the end of an era, but it doesn't really feel like it, does it?
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Akhil Sood
Al-Bake shawarmas, made by the gods of gastronomy
How the peculiar dynamics of local markets in Delhi led to the unstoppable rise of Al-Bake shawarmas, one of the greatest things to have come out of the…
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Akhil Sood
The ordinary, everyday sadness of war
Cruelty is ordinary, uninteresting, banal. War is empty and trite, and yet all those affected will carry with them a lifetime of small and big…
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Akhil Sood
When will Wordle die?
The charming game has captured hearts everywhere. But it has now gone through all the stages in the lifecycle of an internet phenomenon, and the rules…
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Akhil Sood
Tennis needs Djokovic more than it knows
Sport is theatre. And all good theatre needs a great villain. Enter Novak Djokovic.
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Akhil Sood
Attenborough's Gandhi as comfort food
Richard Attenborough's 1982 biopic, his magnum opus, on Mahatma Gandhi and India's great independence movement was on TV all the time. What does it mean…
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Akhil Sood
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