#khans

Gujarat Titans face a selection dilemma with all-rounders Shahrukh Khan and Rahul Tewatia for IPL 2026. Expert Sanjay Bangar suggests a strategic approach, potentially using one as an impact player. Bangar also notes a perceived reduction in Rashid Khan’s mystery factor due to increased familiarity among batters and pitch conditions. Source link

You know who is not only a badass woman, but a badass woman that we don’t hear enough about? 

Sorghaghtani Beki. 

Motherfucking Sorghaghtani Beki is my current historical girl crush; the wife of Genghis Kahn’s youngest son Tolui and mother of Kublai Khan, she was born a princess in her own right, but man oh man, would she become a power in her own right. 

When Tolui died, she refused to remarry, and so, in Mongol tradition, retained the right to rule in her husband’s stead. She advised her brother-in-law, Ögedei Khan, and eventually manoeuvred all four of her sons into leaders of men in their own right, the most famous of which being Kublai Khan, who conquered China into the Mongol Empire and founded the Yuan dynasty of the Middle Kingdom. 

Mongol women had far more rights and power than most of their contemporaries, but Sorghaghtani (Beki is a title) really went above and beyond. Look her up, it’s worth it, I can’t even fit all of it here right now, I’m too busy fangirling.