Rohit Khanna
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Blog | A Story Not Told in 'Ikkis': What Arun Khetarpal Did With His Rs 685 Army Salary
Four months after young Arun wrote a moving letter to his grandfather, he was martyred on December 16, the last day of the 1971 Indo-Pak war.
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Blog | "It Was A Shell From My Tank": When A Father Met The Pak Soldier Who Killed His Son
"He stood like a rock before our Patton tanks," Brigadier Naser (retd) told Madan Lal Khetarpal, almost three decades after his son was killed in battle.
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Blog | The Real Ikkis Story: The 21-Year-Old Who Kept Pak Away From Jammu In 1971
Khetarpal denied the Pakistan Army a vital breakthrough on December 17, 1971, on India's western border, and kept them from gaining control of the road to Jammu. Indira Gandhi wrote a heartfelt letter to his father, honouring his bravery.
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Dharavi Is Full Of Talent, Says Simran Shaikh, India's Rs 1.9-Crore Cricket Rockstar
13th March 2025, Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai. It's the 15th over in the Gujarat Giants innings, chasing a tall target of 213 set by the Mumbai Indians, to determine who will play Delhi Capitals in the 2025 Women's Premier League (WPL) final.
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Blog | "They'd Give Their Right Arm For Him": Remembering India's 'Sabre Killer'
"He didn't know how to slow down. At 89, he had a fall and broke his hip bone. But even in a wheelchair, he was cracking jokes and smiling through the pain". How friends remembering India's 'sabre killer' Denzil Keelor
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Opinion | Kolkata, Delhi, Mumbai - Three Brutal Rape Cases, 50 Years Apart
The circumstances of the terrible ordeal that each endured are so painfully similar that it makes one ask, when would Indias women have been abused and violated enough for us to act and do something substantial about it?
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Blog: Paris Olympics 2024 - The Pain And Pleasure Of Coming 4th
Besides India's 9 'near-misses,' the 2024 Paris Olympics has seen some other unusual '4th place' stories play out, which underline both the pain and the pleasure of being the 'near-miss' 4th finisher.
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Blog | To Those Trolling Sonakshi And Zaheer, Khamosh!
Let's return to Shatrughan Sinha's gentle reminder - that his daughter and Zaheer have broken no law. India, as it was envisioned by our founding fathers, is meant to be a country where diversity and choice are underwritten, guaranteed, and protected
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Blog | 'Bhangra' In America - US Senators' Heartwarming Baisakhi Performance
Seven Senators and Representatives from the state of Delaware spent weeks to learn the Punjabi folk dance and actually performed it on the occasion of Baisakhi.
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Blog | The 'Not-So-Anokhi' Story of Anokhilal-Death Sentence Twice, Now Free
India's legal system is riddled with flaws, which are repeatedly outlined in court verdicts, and yet we don't have the compassion to compensate an accused who has suffered years of wrongful incarceration.
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Blog: 'Sorry Papa, Forgive Me' - Notes From Kota, And A Plea For Change
Roughly two students die by suicide every month in Kota, India's coaching capital. Key among many other factors that contribute to this rot is the glaring lack of accountability the city's coaching centres enjoy.
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Opinion: Goodbye To Ameen Sayani, For Whom Every Listener Mattered
Sayani's self-confessed approach to radio programming was to strike an intimate relationship with each of his listeners, as if they were bonding like friends during the show.
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Blog: Dear Daughter, Like '12th Fail', We All Need Our Lifelines, Our Crew
The simple takeaway is just this - All us, even the best of us, we need our 'Crew' to support us, to cheer us on, to offer us precious timely advice, to be our moral compass, to be in our corner when the times are tough.
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Blog: Dear Daughter, Beware the 'Rizz' of 'Animal' And Toxic Masculinity
Rizz is not just the word of the year, it also describes the times we live in - where the surface-level razzle-dazzle of anything or anyone is all that is needed for it, or the person, to become the talk of the town, and the flavour of the season.
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Opinion: Afghanistan's Rashid Khan - Children Of Conflict, Now Cricket Stars
"What's Rashid Khan's age?" I asked my Dad, who is a serious cricket fan. "32 or so..." was his answer. "Wrong," I said.
