The Juggernaut

You’ve probably seen a photo like this floating around the internet. A colorized version — later proven to be AI-generated — shows a hunched, barefoot woman carrying what looks like a British colonial officer who’s riding her like a horse. However, that image was based on reality. Indeed, there exists a real photo, dated around 1903, captioned ‘A British merchant being carried by a Sikkimese lady on her back, West Bengal.’ Discussions on the seemingly cruel photo have erupted across social media.

In what has become one of the most annoyingly viral TikToks of all time, Alex Sunny (or Alexis Sun) acts like a Juliet separated from her Romeo. “POV: U.S. banned all Afghans from entry including my husband.” Sunny dramatically clutches her hands to her chest before the video cuts to her second POV: “So you just decide to go to Afghanistan to be with him!” She smiles broadly, pointing to two screenshots, one of her upcoming trip to Kabul and one of her e-visa.

Somewhere in the middle of a Marwari wedding, while the music and buffet line are still going, a man usually old enough to be your grandfather gets handed a sari. In most cases, he’s the most senior man on the groom’s side, the one who’s spent the whole event being deferred to and offered the best seat in every room. Now, the bride’s side is outfitting him: they might drape a dupatta over his head, give him a bindi, adorn him with jewelry, and even add some makeup. The room laughs. He laughs, too.

In the 2025 film Materialists, Pedro Pascal’s very rich, very hot character, Harry Castillo, admits to New York City matchmaker Lucy (Dakota Johnson) that he wasn’t always the epitome of male perfection. Once upon a time, he confesses, he was only 5’6” — that is, until he decided to get leg-lengthening surgery with his brother. “It changed our lives with women completely,” Harry shares. Lucy later breaks up with him. Flash forward to today’s world, and most folks are doing some kind of maxxing.

Long before the Internet went into overdrive with spotting peak detailing in Aditya Dhar’s Dhurandharfranchise, Yash Raj brought us globe-trotting spy ventures, from Salman Khan-starrer Ek Tha Tiger (2012) to Shah Rukh Khan’s Pathaan (2023) to, most recently, Hrithik Roshan’s War 2 (2025). The films are part of a well-oiled franchise, headlined by male superstars who even show up in cameos in other spy worlds.

It was June 22, 1986, and Argentina’s Diego Maradona was playing for his life and his country in Mexico City. Weaving through towering English defenders, the 5’ 5” Maradona approached the penalty box, jumped, and punched the ball into the net with his left hand. Seconds later: “GOALLLLL!” Cheers drowned out protests from English fans. The referee said he didn’t see Maradona’s fist touching the ball, an illegal move. The goal stood.

Suraiya Ali Khan had never been to Venice when she booked her trip to Alleppey in 2017. But she had heard the comparison — “Alleppey is the Venice of India” — often enough that it had done its job. “Knowing I could experience something as close to Venice in India was a very attractive option,” she told The Juggernaut.

“I am Peter Parker,” Aditya Patil, a 23-year-old who works in IT in Mumbai but moonlights as Spider-Man, confessed to The Juggernaut. At nights and on weekends, he switches out his thick glasses and hides a mop of black hair beneath a custom-made Spider-Man suit. He’ll scale a wall or crawl on top of a bus, the city his backdrop as his cameraman dutifully captures every shot. Sometimes, the cops are less than amused. “‘Bro, why are you doing this stuff?

When his father was growing up in Triolet, Mauritius during the 1960s, “no one sold dholl puri in the streets,” Navneesh Ramessur told The Juggernaut. After Mauritius, a tiny island nation in the Indian Ocean, won independence from Britain in 1968, people experienced widespread poverty, malnutrition, and unemployment.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard “Bangladesh,” the 49-second track that’s taken over your feed and probably your sanity.