From seasoned players to young revivalists, artists at this year’s blues fest explain why the genre remains restless, relevant and rooted in lived experience‘Blues crossing into the cinematic world, is a whole other level’: Eric GalesEric Gales landed in Mumbai with a Grammy glow and a stiff neck. Just hours before boarding his flight from North Carolina, the blues guitarist slipped on ice outside his home. “I landed on my neck and back,” he says matter-of-factly. A hospital visit later, he shrugs it off. “I’m very sore, but I’ll be okay.”That grit feels fitting. Gales’ career has never been about smooth edges. An energy that also explains his nickname Raw Dawg, which he says is about being “plain, unfiltered… my guitar style, my personality are raw.” The name stuck through blues stages and even his rapping detour with hip-hop group Three 6 Mafia.This year, though, that rawness has travelled somewhere new. Into cinema. His guitar work on Sinners soundtrack ‘Elijah’, composed by Ludwig Goransson, has just earned him two Grammy Awards and an Oscar nomination, a moment he’s still absorbing. “When it crosses into the cinematic world and has the kind of success this film is having, it’s a whole other level.” After years of work, the recognition he says, feels earned. “I’m not completely surprised… but full of joy and gratitude.”Goransson, already a fan of Gales’, initially wanted him to appear in the film, but a tour with Joe Bonamassa made that impossible. Instead, he was brought in to play for the score. “He asked me to play what I felt, just be myself in each scene,” Gales recalls. The scale of it only hit him at the New York premiere. “Within the first five minutes I heard my guitar… About 97% of what I played made it into the film. It was a beautiful thing.”That ease comes from a lifetime of trusting instinct, including his famously upside-down guitar technique. “I just picked it up from my brother and that’s how I play,” says Gales. He didn’t even realise it wasn’t standard untilyears later. “And I didn’t want to change it.”The Mahindra Blues Fest (MBF), where Gales is performing for the third time on Sunday, has stayed with him. The energy always does. So does something harder. “It hurts to see the poverty,” he admits. There are lighter memories too. Arriving once with his wife and ZZ Top without luggage, dressed instead in traditional white outfits. “Like kings and queens,” he laughs. “But the way people treat you here, the traditions… it’s special.”‘Young people still rush to the stage’: DK HarrellDK Harrell laughs when the conversation turns to his name — Irish, as it turns out — and unexpectedly loaded. “D’Kieran Rion Harrell,” he says, explaining its meaning: “little dark prince”. In Hebrew, the name translates to “on top of the mountain of God”. He suspects his mother sensed something. “That her son was going to do something unique.” His own reading is less mystical. “The worst storms start at the top of a mountain. So I have the best seat in the house when things go wrong!” At 27, the blues singer and guitarist, carries a layered lineage that traces back to French settlers in Louisiana and enslaved ancestors. “I’m Black, I’m Creole, I’m a little everything,” he says. That complicated history, he believes, even shows up physically. He links his vitiligo to the genetic consequences of incest within his family tree, a reality many Creole families were forced into. “I used to be scared of it,” he admits. “Now I like it because being different is beautiful.”The blues, for Harrell, arrived before the alphabet. “I was two when my mother played B B King’s Deuces Wild in the car,” he says. “She heard a little voice singing The Thrill Is Gone. That’s actually how I started talking.”One of the most formidable young stars of the current blues resurgence, Harrell is aware of the contradiction of being a young man playing avintage genre. “We actually have more young people in Europe show up than in the US,” he says. Sometimes the divide collapses. At a Florida festival, he recalls launching into Etta James staple I Just Want to Make Love to You when “a big group of young ladies in their twenties just rushed the stage”, startling an audience otherwise filled with people in their sixties.His solution is straightforward. “I make the music sound old school… but my lyrics are contemporary,” he says. So instead of Cadillacs and automobiles, his blues talks about FaceTime or loving more than one person “because that’s the way young people are”.To keep the genre alive, he argues, the blues simply needs to be put back in the room. “With collaborations. HaveBeyonce do a song with Shemekia Copeland and Eric Gales with Drake. If it wasn’t for the blues, they wouldn’t have this music.” And Harrell, standing at the edge of the mountain, sounds ready to keep calling out the forecast.‘All of a sudden, at 64, my passport is full’: Jeff TaylorIt’s hard to picture Jeff Taylor as a former high school principal, and yet, for years, the frontman of the Altered Five Blues Band walked the tightrope between school and stage before he finally gave himself over, six years ago, body and soul to the blues. “I told the band right in the beginning, ‘school has to come first. I can’t miss the prom; I can’t miss the school dances.’ So, I would go to the school dance and then drive downtown and play music.”The city will sample it today as the Altered Five Blues Band—the quintet from Milwaukee—debuts at the blues festival with a lineup of the old, the new, and the spanking new. “We’ll be playing a couple of songs from our latest album Hammer & Chisel. With the last few albums, we’d try to play songs live for at least six months to get an audience reaction before we recorded them. With this one, we didn’t.”The band’s guitarist Jeff Schroedl is their principal songwriter, but everybody pitches in with stories. One of them was about the time Taylor almost drowned. “I was around 11 when my brother and I were playing on the frozen river in Wisconsin, and I fell through the ice. But I wasn’t thinking about dying. I was thinking about how madmy mother was gonna be,” he laughs, “I’m still afraid of water. That’s what our new song ‘I Can’t Shake it’ is about.”The band has bagged several awards including three Blues Music Award nominations; scaled the Billboards and topped iTunes and Amazon Blues Charts.“I was in the school cafeteria when the sixth graders came in for lunch and got a call: ‘Can you come to the phone? It’s Jeff.’” He was calling to say their album Charmed & Dangerous had hit number 13 on iTunes. Another call as the seventh graders arrived, it was up to number eight. By the time the eighth graders settled in, the song had climbed to number three. “The students were screaming and calling their parents to say, ‘Mr Taylor is on iTunes’... I had never reallybeen anywhere until I was 50, and now, all of a sudden, at 64, my passport is full.”‘As a white English guy, I followed the blues back to where it came from’: Matt SchofieldFrom a young age, Matt Schofield was taught to follow the thread to the heart of the music. “My father would say, ‘If you like Stevie Ray, you gotta listen to Albert King. Because that was his influence’. It seemed important for me to follow the tradition of electric blues guitar all the way back to the beginning,” says the three-time British Blues Guitarist of the Year. “Going back gives you a pretty good depth of understanding that you can apply to your own music.”Growing up in Cotswold, Schoefield cut his teeth on cassettes taped off his dad’s vinyl. “There was no one to teach me, so I learned from listening to records. I just had three songs of B B King that I’d listen to over and over.”His father moved to the US when he was a boy. Decades later, Schofield followed for the music. “I moved to be able to work there more easily, but also, to be around where the music came from. . . In fact, my next move is to New Orleans to really get to the heart of it. I guess it’s my own search for authenticity, as a white English guy. I want to be as deeply in it as I can be,” he grins.Incidentally, it was the Mahindra Blues Fest — and not New Orleans — that gave him this opportunity. “I got to play with Buddy Guy for the first time,” he says, of the inaugural edition of the festival, in 2011. “It was one of the highlights of my life. I grew up with his music, and to finally get to jam with him—in India, of all places! I thought it would be in a club in Chicago.”While Schofield has been tracing his way back to the roots of the blues, he credits its branches—British blues, in particular—with spreading the word. “It’s actually a very important part of the blues history,” he says, “because British blues artists in the 60s and the early rock androll bands — The Rolling Stones, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton — introduced white America to the blues. Until then, it was segregated, race music.”‘If the world ended, my record would tell you what was happening’: Shemekia CopelandShemekia Copeland reads her audience before she sings. “I feel them out. I never make a set list and even if I do, I don’t follow it, because I like to go with the feel of the audience.” Having performed here twice before, she already knows the city’s pulse. “When I first got here, I was shocked to see so many Indians interested in blues.”She was eight when she first performed with her father Johnny Copeland at New York’s Cotton Club, and 18 when she cut her debut CD Turn The Heat Up. She has been called “the greatest female blues vocalist working today” by Chicago Tribune, has eight Grammy nominations, and won multiple Blues Music and Living Blues Awards, and she brings the sum of that legacy to the stage today.“I always say, I’m making little time pieces of art. So, if the world ended and someone found my record, they would know what was happening at that time,” says the singer, whose songs are both memorials and manifestos. She has sung about women’s reproductive rights, racial history, civil rights and domestic violence.Her 2024 album Blame It on Eve, which earned three Grammy nominations, was written at a time when women’s rights, particularly reproductive autonomy, were under scrutiny in the US. As political upheaval intensifies back home, and human rights face new challenges globally, Copeland sees the blues as a natural language for the moment. “I’m not a preachy person; I like to just talk about what’s happening.”Copeland made a critically acclaimed album in 2018 called America’s Child. “It had a song called Ain’t Got Time for Hate. That’s how I’m feeling again now. We’ve stopped loving each other, and instead of seeing how we’re all the same, everybody is focused on what’s different. In America, we’re divided by race and in India, you’re divided by religion. We shouldn’t let these divide us. We should embrace each other for who we are. That’ll be the focus of my next record.”

NEW DELHI: After decades of losing ground to drug resistance, doctors finally have new weapons against gonorrhoea, a common sexually transmitted infection that has steadily outsmarted one antibiotic after another. The recent approval of two new oral medicines by the US Food and Drug Administration has reopened a narrowing treatment window for a disease edging dangerously close to becoming untreatable.The FDA cleared zoliflodacin (Nuzolvence) and gepotidacin (Blujepa) in December 2025 for treating uncomplicated gonorrhoea. Their arrival comes at a critical time, especially for countries like India, where ceftriaxone is the only effective antibiotic left in routine use.“Gonorrhoea is a major STD and resistance is rising fast,” said Dr Kabir Sardana, head of dermatology at Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital. He attributed the trend largely to antibiotic misuse by general practitioners and quacks. “Azithromycin, once a first-line drug, is now largely ineffective because it was prescribed indiscriminately for everything from minor infections to acne,” he said.Experts say the urgency is reflected in global surveillance. Dr Neirita Hazarika, professor and head of dermatology at AIIMS Guwahati, pointed out that the WHO’s 2025 Global Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance Report has classified drug-resistant gonorrhoea as a high-priority pathogen. She said the approval of the two new oral drugs marks a significant milestone, as clinical trials have shown cure rates comparable to current standard therapy. “These drugs expand treatment options for uncomplicated gonorrhoea at a time when resistance to cephalosporins (Ceftriaxone) and macrolides (Azithromycin) is rising,” she said.Ceftriaxone, now the last dependable option in India, is itself under pressure. Widely used for several other infections, it faces a real risk of resistance if misuse continues. “If ceftriaxone fails, we will be left with virtually no antibiotics for gonorrhoea,” Dr Sardana warned.Gonorrhoea affects both men and women and commonly causes urethritis, but untreated infection can lead to infertility, pelvic inflammatory disease and increased HIV risk. With India already carrying a high burden of sexually transmitted infections, doctors warn that failure of existing drugs would have serious public health consequences.The infection has a long history of defeating antibiotics. Sulfa drugs, penicillin, tetracycline, quinolones and cefixime were all abandoned over time as resistance emerged. By 2007, quinolones were dropped entirely due to widespread failure.Experts say the new drugs are promising but require careful use. Prof Seema Sood of AIIMS New Delhi said zoliflodacin and gepotidacin have shown strong activity in studies for uncomplicated urogenital infection.India’s wider antimicrobial resistance crisis adds urgency. ICMR surveillance has flagged rising resistance linked to over-the-counter antibiotic use. Prof Bimal Kumar Das, HOD of microbiology at AIIMS New Delhi, said newer antibiotics are crucial to tackle AMR, while Dr Hitender Gautam noted that early access in India could help curb resistant infections, with gepotidacin showing potential beyond gonorrhoea.

An Indian national has pleaded guilty in a US court to plotting the assassination of a Khalistani terrorist and US citizen Gurpatwant Singh Pannun in New York in a $100,000 murder-for-hire scheme that US prosecutors say was directed by an Indian government employee.The US Department of Justice said Nikhil Gupta, 54, pleaded guilty before US Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn to murder-for-hire, conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire and conspiracy to commit money laundering. He is scheduled to be sentenced on May 29, 2026, before US District Judge Victor Marrero.

According to the Justice Department, the plot targeted Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a US citizen of Indian origin and leader of a US-based Sikh separatist organization advocating for the creation of Khalistan.“Nikhil Gupta plotted to assassinate a US citizen in New York City,” said US Attorney Jay Clayton. “He thought that from outside this country he could kill someone in it without consequence, simply for exercising their American right to free speech. But he was wrong, and he will face justice. Our message to all nefarious foreign actors should be clear: steer clear of the United States and our people.”

How the $100,000 murder plot was set up

According to the Second Superseding Indictment and statements made in court, Gupta worked with others in India and elsewhere, including co-defendant Vikash Yadav, who US authorities identified as an Indian government employee.Yadav was employed by the Government of India’s Cabinet Secretariat, which houses India’s foreign intelligence service, the Research and Analysis Wing.“In or about May 2023, YADAV recruited GUPTA to orchestrate the assassination of the Victim in the United States,” the Justice Department said.At Yadav’s direction, Gupta contacted an individual he believed to be a criminal associate. That individual was in fact a confidential source working with the Drug Enforcement Administration.The confidential source introduced Gupta to a purported hitman who was actually a DEA undercover officer.“YADAV subsequently agreed, in dealings brokered by GUPTA, to pay the UC $100,000 to murder the Victim,” the release said. “On or about June 9, 2023, YADAV and GUPTA arranged for an associate to deliver $15,000 in cash to the UC as an advance payment for the murder.”

Surveillance, instructions and timing

Prosecutors said Yadav provided Gupta with the victim’s home address in New York City, phone numbers and details about his day-to-day conduct. Gupta allegedly passed that information to the undercover officer and provided Yadav with regular updates, including surveillance photographs.Gupta directed that the murder be carried out quickly but instructed that it should not occur around the time of the Indian Prime Minister’s official state visit to the United States in June 2023.On June 18, 2023, Hardeep Singh Nijjar was shot dead in British Columbia. The Justice Department said Nijjar was an associate of the intended victim and a leader in the Sikh separatist movement.“On or about June 19, 2023, the day after the Nijjar murder, GUPTA told the UC that Nijjar ‘was also the target’ and ‘we have so many targets.’ GUPTA also added that, in light of Nijjar’s murder, there was ‘now no need to wait’ on killing the Victim,” the release said.Gupta was arrested in the Czech Republic on June 30, 2023, and later extradited to the United States.

Charges and potential sentence

Gupta pleaded guilty to murder-for-hire, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years, and conspiracy to commit money laundering, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years.“The maximum potential sentences in this case are prescribed by Congress and provided here for informational purposes only, as the sentencing of the defendant will be determined by a judge,” the Justice Department said.

US agencies react

FBI Assistant Director Roman Rozhavsky said, “Nikhil Gupta was a key participant in a murder-for-hire plot against a US citizen, a murder that was prevented thanks to the actions of US law enforcement. The US citizen became a target of transnational repression solely for exercising their freedom of speech. The message from the FBI should be clear—no matter where you are located if you try to harm our citizens we will not stop until you are brought to justice.”DEA Administrator Terrance Cole said, “It is often a slippery and dangerous slope from drug trafficking to deadly violence, as demonstrated by the murder-for-hire plot orchestrated by international narcotics and weapons trafficker Nikhil Gupta. This case is a stark reminder of the ruthless lengths criminals will go to in order to further their illegal enterprises. I commend the men and women of DEA’s New York Task Force Division for their outstanding investigative work successfully foiling Gupta’s assassination plot. Let there be no doubt: DEA remains steadfast in its mission to protect America. We will continue to leverage our superior investigative expertise and unmatched intelligence capabilities to dismantle the drug trafficking networks that threaten our safety and well-being of our communities.”FBI Assistant Director in Charge James C. Barnacle, Jr. said, “At the direction and coordination of an Indian government employee, Nikhil Gupta plotted to assassinate a United States citizen on American soil, facilitating a foreign adversary’s unlawful effort to silence a vocal critic of the Indian government. The FBI will continue to aggressively defend the homeland against any foreign adversaries who target our citizens for exercising their constitutionally protected rights.”The case is being handled by the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, along with the FBI and DEA. Gupta remains in custody and will be sentenced later this year.

Valentine’s day is here and people are rushing to shower their loved ones with gifts. February 14 is emerging as a big sales opportunity for quick commerce firms and digital-first brands, as people are shopping for fashion, jewellery, beauty, personal care and sexual wellness products. To tap into the momentum, platforms such as Zepto, Blinkit and Instamart began activating special features on their apps from February 7. These include themed storefronts and interactive layouts built around gifting needs for the season. Zepto marked the start of the period with an on-ground event titled ‘Valentine’s Prom Night’. “We have seen a massive surge in Valentine’s gifting this year, with key categories like jewellery, greeting cards, and plush toys growing up to 10X year-on-year,” a spokesperson for Instamart told ET. “Notably, the sexual wellness category has more than tripled.” Competition to attract younger consumers is intensifying. Flipkart Minutes has introduced a dedicated section called RelationShop on its platform. “We have recorded 8X year-over-year growth (February 7-11, 2025 vs. February 7-11, 2026) and anticipate a 7X surge in overall demand this year,” Flipkart spokesperson told ET. At the same time, D2C brands supplying through these channels are also reporting strong traction. MyMuse, which sells sexual wellness products, is seeing sales climb 50–60% year-on-year across quick commerce marketplaces. “This is our third Valentine’s Day on quick commerce and each year the demand is increasing,” said Sahil Gupta, cofounder of MyMuse. “The number of brand searches on platforms have significantly increased as well.” Experts say speed and privacy are central to the appeal for many buyers. Rajat Jadhav, cofounder and chief executive of men’s sexual health and wellness brand Bold Care, linked the seasonal bump to changing conversations around intimacy. “Valentine’s is significant as it changes the mood around intimacy,” he said, adding, “It is one of the few times in the year when people talk about it openly, without overthinking or hesitation. We see that convert into higher curiosity and a lot of first-time buyers.” While February 13 and 14 remain the busiest days because of last-minute shopping, companies note that spending is now distributed across the broader Valentine’s week. “We usually see a 4X spike in revenue, which is from January 15 to February 14, so those 30 days is what we capture,” said said Twishaa Gupta, cofounder of fashion and accessories brand Salty. “This year, targets are super high and we want to close somewhere around Rs 20 crore for just this month.” Data from Unicommerce also highlights the scale of the build-up, with the firm registering a 48% year-on-year jump in quick commerce orders between February 1 and 10. For the occasion, platforms have assembled curated lists linked to days such as Rose Day, Chocolate Day, Promise Day and Hug Day. “Carts are bigger, more premium, and the celebration now spans an entire week, signalling a clear move from impulse buys to planned, thoughtful gifting,” the spokesperson from Instamart said, adding that the company increased inventory across dark stores in advance and expanded staffing and delivery partners to handle volumes.

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As the high-stakes India-Pakistan T20 World Cup 2026 clash looms on the horizon, the cricketing world has been ignited by a war of words between a former legend and one of India’s rising stars. The drama surrounding Abhishek Sharma has intensified, with the young opener battling a severe health crisis while facing scathing public criticism from across the border. While India’s medical team works around the clock to get their primary power-hitter match-ready for Sunday in Colombo, the psychological warfare has already begun.

Mohammad Amir takes a dig at unwell Abhishek Sharma before IND vs PAK T20 World Cup 2026 match

Former Pakistan pacer Mohammad Amir has sparked a massive controversy by labeling India’s top-ranked T20 batter, Abhishek Sharma, as nothing more than a ‘slogger’ ahead of the blockbuster showdown. Speaking on the Pakistan talk show ‘Haarna Mana Hai’ on February 13, 2026, Amir questioned Abhishek’s technical foundation, claiming that the 25-year-old lacks the ability to tackle swinging deliveries and is prone to frequent failure. Amir’s comments were direct and provocative, aimed at unsettling the youngster during his recovery period:

“By whatever little I have seen, if you ask me honestly, I feel he is just a slogger… I don’t think he is technically sound. He just stands there and wants all balls to be bowled in a particular area. I will consider him a proper batter only when I see that the ball is swinging even slightly and he tackles it well.” Amir said.

Amir went even further by offering a tactical blueprint for Pakistani bowlers, suggesting that the best way to dismiss Abhishek is to target his body and use slower variations, as he believes the batter lacks the patience and technique for elite-level swing bowling. These remarks have drawn sharp reactions from Indian fans, who pointed to Abhishek’s staggering career strike rate of nearly 200 and his ability to dismantle world-class attacks as evidence of his unique talent.

Muhammad Amir on Abhishek Sharma:

“Honestly, he’s just a slogger. His chances of failure are high. He’s not a technically sound batsman. It’s not difficult to tackle such a batsman if you bowl on the body line. He will also struggle against slow balls.” pic.twitter.com/6lsABj8sdl

— Sheri. (@CallMeSheri1_) February 13, 2026

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Indian skipper Suryakumar Yadav provides update on Abhishek’s health 

On the medical front, Abhishek Sharma is currently in a desperate race against time after a severe stomach infection saw him lose 2kg of weight and undergo hospitalisation earlier this week. In a candid video shared by teammate Arshdeep Singh, a visibly leaner Abhishek revealed the physical toll of the illness, which began after he consumed something in Mumbai on February 6. The infection, aggravated by a sudden weather shift in Delhi and high fever, resulted in significant fluid loss. The messaging from the Indian leadership has been mixed, creating a cloud of uncertainty over his availability for Sunday’s marquee clash at the R. Premadasa Stadium:

“Abhishek isn’t fine still, might take one or two games,” India captain Suryakumar Yadav stated cautiously at the toss against Namibia, hinting that the opener might be rested for the Pakistan game to ensure long-term fitness.

However, teammate Varun Chakravarthy provided a more optimistic update following India’s victory in Delhi:

“As far as I have spoken to him he looks good, he did some practice today also. He told me he is on the way.”

Abhishek has officially traveled with the squad to Colombo, where he will undergo a final endurance and strength test. While the “slogger” insults from Amir have spiced up the pre-match narrative, the real battle remains whether Abhishek can regain the 2kg of lost muscle and the match-stamina required to face Pakistan’s high-velocity attack on Sunday.

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NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to land at the Emergency Landing Facility (ELF) on the Moran Bypass in Dibrugarh on Saturday, where he will witness an aerial display by fighter jets, transport aircraft and helicopters. The ELF, the first of its kind in Northeast India, was built in coordination with the Indian Air Force to support emergency landings and take-offs of military and civil aircraft.During his day-long visit to Assam on Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Kumar Bhaskar Varma Setu across the Brahmaputra River, linking Guwahati and North Guwahati.The six-lane extradosed prestressed concrete (PSC) bridge, built at a cost of about Rs 3,030 crore, is the first extradosed bridge in Northeast India.The bridge is expected to cut travel time between Guwahati and North Guwahati to about seven minutes. Designed for the region’s high seismic risk, it incorporates base isolation technology using friction pendulum bearings, while high-performance stay cables have been used to enhance durability and long-term structural performance.Prime Minister Narendra Modi will also inaugurate the temporary campus of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Guwahati during his visit, a move expected to boost higher and management education in the Northeast.The Prime Minister will also flag off 225 electric buses under the PM-eBus Sewa Scheme in four cities, Guwahati (100), Nagpur (50), Bhavnagar (50) and Chandigarh (25).The move is expected to benefit more than 50 lakh citizens by improving access to clean and affordable public transport.Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the National Data Centre for the North Eastern Region at Amingaon in Kamrup district during his visit.The facility will host critical government applications and act as a disaster recovery centre, with a sanctioned load of 8.5 MW and an average rack capacity of 10 kW per rack.The centre is expected to strengthen the region’s digital infrastructure and support the delivery of citizen services under the Digital India initiative.