| | | Union sports minister Anurag Thakur, after a second round of discussions with protesting wrestlers late on Friday night, had announced an oversight committee to go into the allegations of “sexual misconduct, financial irregularities and administrative lapses and to undertake day-to-day administration of the WFI”. The committee – names of members are likely to be announced on Sunday – is to complete the probe in a month and until then the “WFI president will step aside from the day-to-day functioning and has assured to cooperate in the investigation,” Thakur had said. | THE DAILY QUIZ Harnaaz Sandhu took her final walk as Miss Universe 2021 wearing a glittering all-black floor-length dress designed by Saisha Shinde. It paid tribute to two former Miss Universes, from 1994 and 2000. Name the beauty queens. a. Sushmita Sen & Lara Dutta
b. Aishwarya Rai & PeeCee
c. Manushi Chhillar & Suman Rao
d. Nicole Faria & Parvathy O TAKE THE FULL QUIZ | | THE BIG STORY Draft charge sheet on Walkar murder ready A mix of forensic and electronic evidence along with the testimonies of 55 people is likely to form the core of Delhi Police’s prosecution of Aaftab Poonawala, who has been accused of murdering his girlfriend Shraddha Walkar and getting rid of her body piece by piece, according to officials who cited details from a draft charge sheet. Read more. | | THE BIG QUESTION How will the wrestlers’ protests shape up? The Union sports ministry on Saturday suspended all activities of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI), a day after the government asked federation president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh to step aside until an oversight committee being appointed completes a probe into accusations against him. Read more. |  | | A LITTLE LIGHT READING Up to the tusk: A Wknd interview with the maker of The Elephant Whisperers About five years ago, Kartiki Gonsalves was driving to her home in Ooty, Tamil Nadu, when she came upon Bomman Kattunayakan, a caregiver at the elephant camp within the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve. He was walking along the road with Raghu, an elephant calf he’d adopted. “They were on their way to the river for Raghu’s bath and I started a conversation with Bomman. Observing them, I was struck by the bond they shared,” says Gonsalves, 36. “At three months old, Raghu looked small and vulnerable. Bomman was his mother, father, friend, everything.” That chance meeting would alter the trajectory of Gonsalves’s career. Until then a photographer, it inspired her first film, The Elephant Whisperers (2022; 42 minutes), which tells the story of Bomman, his wife Bellie Kattunayakan and their two baby elephants, Raghu and Ammu. Read more. | | THE WEEKEND FIX Less hate, more clarity: Check out Pixstory, a new social-media app out of India We’ve made our peace with doomscrolling. That’s just the way it is, we say — there’s bad news in the world; it comes at us in a steady stream; attached is a string of responses that are inane at best, violent and invasive at worst. But maybe it doesn’t have to be like this. Read more. | | SOUND BITES Are your ears popping? Hard truths about corn, with Swetha Sivakumar Some 9,000 years ago, people in Mesoamerica (modern-day Central America and southern USA) began to cultivate a grass called teosinte. European settlers would later call it “Indian corn”. Corn was just a word for kernel then; Indian, of course, was a reference to the Native Americans, who’d been misnamed in one of history’s most grievous geographical errors. Technically, in English, the crop is maize (botanically, Zea mays). But in America, the prefix “Indian” would soon fall away, and all that was left was “corn”. Read more. | | Were you forwarded this email? Did you stumble upon it online? Sign up here. | | Written and edited by Saurya Sengupta. Produced by Md Shad Hasnain. | | | | | | | Get the Hindustan Times app and read premium stories | | | | | | View in Browser | Privacy Policy | Contact us You received this email because you signed up for HT Newsletters or because it is included in your subscription. Copyright © HT Digital Streams. All Rights Reserved | | | | |  | |
