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Remembering Oct 31, 1984
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| | October 31, 2009, 00:20 IST |
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Such is the jigsaw of memory that looking back on that momentous day, October 31, 1984, and its calamitous aftermath, the oddest pieces first come to light.
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The price of a filmmaker's estate
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| | October 17, 2009, 00:00 IST |
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London: This multicultural capital has been celebrating India in the run-up to Diwali in its own inimitable way.
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Marketing the gifts of gods
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| | October 03, 2009, 00:46 IST |
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Happy Daughter’s Day.
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Goa's monsoon sosegade
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| | September 19, 2009, 00:08 IST |
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Goa: I usually visit Goa once a year, often to escape the winter chills of the north, but returning after 20 months at the height of the monsoon I find a place quite distinct in pace, atmosphere, colour and contour.
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Who judges the judges?
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| | September 05, 2009, 00:32 IST |
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The power of three against one: that’s how the battle of their lordships, India’s chief justices past and present, has panned out over the ongoing row over the judiciary making their assets public.
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The difficulty of being Khan
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| | August 22, 2009, 00:04 IST |
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A brief daily skimming of the Net this week may amply convey the real difficulty of being Khan.
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Delhi's double displacement
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| | August 08, 2009, 00:09 IST |
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A large and long-established slum close to my neighbourhood, on the edge of the All India Medical Institute, was removed some years ago and its inhabitants sold tiny plots of land in a resettlement colony on the southern outskirts.
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Virtue, vice and VIPs
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| | July 25, 2009, 00:26 IST |
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Outsiders sometimes point to certain Indian characteristics such as reverence for the elderly, respect for seniority and a politeness towards authority in general, as embedded in our system of “family values”.
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London's Indian summer
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| | July 11, 2009, 00:05 IST |
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London: One of the most impressive and widely attended art exhibitions in London at the moment takes you back to an arid part of the Rajasthan desert in the 18th and 19th centuries, into a world of hedonistic pleasure, violent intrigue and spiritual attainment.
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Going into denial mode
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| | June 27, 2009, 00:29 IST |
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Whether a characteristic of political defeat, a sub-continental malaise or simply a fallout of the heat wave, lots of people are in denial mode.
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India's Paris Hilton?
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| | June 13, 2009, 00:55 IST |
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Ever since the rising political tension followed by the dramatic election result was unleashed like a coiled spring there has been a lull in the news.
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Good conduct, bad habits
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| | May 30, 2009, 00:47 IST |
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One of the best things about the election result has been that almost no one, including the most diehard detractor of the Congress party, has been critical about it.
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A month of Sundays
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| | May 16, 2009, 00:34 IST |
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The Great Indian Election Drama means that the country has subsided into a month of Sundays.
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Bhutan's political spring
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| | May 02, 2009, 00:27 IST |
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Thimphu: When Jigme Singye Wangchuk, the outgoing king of Bhutan, coined Gross Domestic Happiness as a development index some years ago, the world probably dismissed the idea as a monarch’s whimsy conjured on a spring morning in his idyllic kingdom.
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Delhi's delimitation drama
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| | April 18, 2009, 00:37 IST |
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A call from a puzzled friend who lives about a kilometre away from me in the old colony of Jangpura in south Delhi.
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