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2025 — A to Z

Updated on: 04 January,2026 07:00 AM IST  |  Mumbai
Rahul da Cunha |

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2025 — A to Z

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Rahul da CunhaIt has been a tumultuous year. Hatred emanated from the sacred. Racism gathered momentum. Lynching in the name of religion. Vigilates continued to be anti. But, public outcry made its presence felt. 

Here’s my A-Z of events, occurences, and watershed moments, wars and skirmishes. And Trump. 


Air India woes. Adolesence the show. Alcaraz the champ. Alcaraz and Fererro. Alcaraz without Fererro. Aravalli Hills mining. Activists against mining.



Asrani departs. Arnab returns. Akshaye Khanna returns. 

AQI pervades. AI pervades. Avatar — Fire and Ash.

Aura Farming, 

Bangla Desh aggression. Bajrang Dal aggression

Bazball falters.

Coldplay kiss cam couple. ChatGPT. Chhava. Cruise gets an Oscar

DeepSeek. Deep seated hate. Dhurandhar.Dharmendra. Disrupting birthday parties by extremist political parties.

Diane Keaton departs. Dickie Bird departs.

England destroyed by Australia.Elephants destroyed by Assam train. 

F1. Family Man. 

Great Shamsuddin Family. Gaza. Grok. 

Hate dominates the narrative. Hate crimes.

Gill comes of age. Gill captains. Gill excels. Gill promoted. Gill loses form. Gill demoted. Gill sacked. Gill confused.

Gambhir arrogance. Gambhir autocracy. GST reforms.

Gene Hackman departs Giorgio Armani departs.

Homebound is Oscar bound. Homebound plagiarised. Hulk Hogan departs.

Inglesias comes to India. Indigo disaster.Israel disaster. Ikkis controversy.

Jemimah Rodrigues. 

Labubu Dolls. Lokah Chapter 1. Love jihad. Lynching unabated

Mass awakenings.

Messi comes. A messy affair. 

Ninety hour work week. Nano Banana. Nadal farewell. Nitish Kumar.

Ozzy Osbourne departs. Operation Sindoor. One Battle After Another.

Pakistan packed off. Palestine. Palestine. Palestine. 

Piyush Panday departs.

Prada copies Kolhapuri

Ranveer Allabadia. Ranveer Singh.Rehman Dakait. Rage Bait, Oxford word of the year. 

Rob Redford departs. Rob Reiner departs.

Rohit gets a Wankhede stand. 

Sunny gets a Wankhede statue.

Satish Shah departs. 

SINNERS the movie. Sinner the champion. 

Stranger Things another season

Saiyaara the phenomenon. Sholay turns 50. Sunita Williams returns from space.

Trump triumphs again. Trump trumps the year. Trump and Vance. Trump ridicules Ukranian Prezzie

Trump introduces Gold Card. Trumps tariffs. Trump testy. 

Trump mediates. Trump elevates Musk. Trump ousts Musk.

USA vs Ukraina. USA for Ukraine. 

Vigilantes. Vitriol

Xmas festivities disrupted, parties, malls, churches. 

Zubeen Garg departs. Zakir Khan at Madison Square.  Zohran Mamdani for New York mayor.

Zelensky stands tough.

Rahul daCunha is an adman, theatre director/playwright, photographer and traveller. Reach him at rahul.dacunha@mid-day.com

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