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Arunachal pradesh
With India having given them nothing but neglect, the Arunachalis wonder if they’d have been better off with China
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karnataka: bjp
Shobha Karandlaje, BSY’s pointswoman, is central to the crisis
poll Sutra
‘Those who form governments can also pull them down,’ goes an old jungle saying in our Bellary
opinion
The ‘sarkari Musalman’ class trades solely in Muslim backwardness
opinion
Paradoxically, unassertiveness catches up with the Loh Purush
opinion
It’s time we extirpated the horrific dehumanisation from our prisons
Govt report: land reforms
A scathing report on the pro-business land takeover policy ...and it’s official too
crime: youth
They’re young, educated, and they kill. A worrying city trend.
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investments: education
A map to rope in rural investments
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health: rural missions
A pan-India rural health project is suffering
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Films: Apu trilogy
Fifty years after the Apu trilogy, the West still misreads Ray
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review
Imaginary sips for exquisite wines bleeding into each other. Then, the treacly gladness of a rummy concoction.
Ruskin Bond on Happy Hours: The Penguin Book Of Cocktails By Bhaichand Patel
review
That English fiction abounds in South Asian names we already knew. And South Asian voices? We still don’t know.
Aditya Sudarshan on The New Anthem: The Subcontinent In Its Own Words Edited By Ahmede Hussain
review
This well-illustrated volume should be useful as a textbook in film schools, but its value for ordinary film enthusiasts is even higher
Chandak Sengoopta on The Director’s Mind: A Step By Step Study Of The Process Of Film Making By Ujjal Chakraborty
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Ramadorai built a big company full of great managers. Chandrasekaran wants tocarve it into smaller businesses, each led by an entrepreneurial CEO.
M Anand
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M Thiagarajan built a profitable airline by staying regional. As it goes national, he has his hands full with controversy and challenges.
Sudipto Dey
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The takeover by HP is the best thing that happened to Mphasis.
Nandita Datta
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Cool as Amazon’s e-reader is, it won’t rack up numbers in India in its present form.
Anurag Prasad
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...And what you should be watching out for in your everyday financial transactions with agents, brokers, banks,
employers and even your kirana store
Pankaj Anup Toppo
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International funds come in various packages. Choose yours with care and weigh the pros and cons before you put in your money
Kundan Kishore
Most equity funds of Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance have outperformed the benchmark, which represents its prudent fund management. Sunil Dhawan speaks with the company’s chief investment officer (CIO), Sashi Krishnan
Sunil Dhawan
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Small trolleys or liquor bottles stashed in cupboards are history. Let home bars take entertaining to the next level
REKHA NAMBIAR
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New issues have seen a resurgence on the back of good participation from institutional investors as they bet on making a quick buck on the bourses to make up for the lost opportunity in the surprise rally since March.
Gargi Banerjee
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A new and fearsome round of price wars threatens to further unravel the profitability of Indian telecom operators, who are already struggling with falling average subscriber realisations.
Kripa Mahalingam
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Are you tired of guessing which way the markets will turn? It’s time to check out a strategy - hitherto exploited by hedge funds – that offers a way to profit be it a bull or a bear market
Saaurabh Shivshankar
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Despite being small by global standards, India’s biggest power equipment maker, Bhel, quotes at a market value several times higher than what is enjoyed by its global peers, primarily because of the sizzling growth potential back home
Priya Kansara Pandya
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Janaki Lenin spots tahr, encounters a leopard and scopes a pit viper in a little visited reserve in the southern Western Ghats. Photographs by Kalyan Varma
Janaki Lenin
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In the magnificent Satpuras, Sheetal Vyas visits a new forest lodge and comes away renewed. Photographs by Sanjoy Ghosh
Sheetal Vyas
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Latha Anantharaman takes a scenic journey from the lacustrine riviera of Ticino to the glacial slopes of the Jungfrau. Photographs by Henry Chinaski
Latha Anantharaman
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Unexpectedly, Chennai has about 120 churches. Vaishna Roy visits six of them
Vaishna Roy
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The government sector offers jobs in almost all fields ranging from agriculture to hospitality. Know the possibilities before
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A look at how some institutions blatantly cheat students of their future
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A good distance learning institution grows indiscriminately and in the process puts a question mark on the future
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The Indian Institute of Management''''s Common Admission Test (CAT)is a pre-requisite for admission to various management programmes
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A superior course, global exposure, international faculty and dollar salaries, so claims IIPM. Careers360 investigates
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| Regulars | | | Shanghai Diary
Do Chinese scholars and the media have any freedom of expression—or are they all controlled by the Communist Party that has the blood of Tiananmen on its hands? It isn't as simple as a monolith manipulated by the Party C. Uday Bhaskar
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people
Glitterati
The page 3 people, the chatterati and those in the news for being in the news |
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Polscape
Random notes, gossip, bitching, angles, conspiracy theories, spoofs, essential fundas |
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| Friday, November 06, 2009 |
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Southern Spice
Mention Tamil refugees and CM Karunanidhi gets tearful: “I don’t see those staying in camps here as refugees, I see them as Tamils…"
Pushpa Iyengar
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View From Israel
It is impossible for a leader to steer his people towards a total change (as Ataturk did in Turkey, for example) if he is not completely devoted to the change himself. Impossible to make peace with an enemy without understanding his truth.
Uri Avnery
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| Thursday, November 05, 2009 |
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Opinion
A recent full-page advertisement direly warned that she just might, and added: "While your child is learning your maid’s language, someone else’s child is learning a foreign language.” So?
Debarshi Dasgupta
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Opinion
Lack of governance, the trampling of Constitutional and legal norms, the brazen corruption, the mounting threats of terrorism and insurgency...But look at the bright side...
Rajinder Puri
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South Asia 2020
'The relationship we have with China is complex but growingly variegated in texture and substance... outstanding issues in our relationship with China will take time to be resolved'
Nirupama Rao
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26/11
As the first anniversary of the 26/11 terrorist strike by the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET) in Mumbai approaches, there is a heightened alert by the security agencies to prevent any major terrorist strike
B. Raman
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| Wednesday, November 04, 2009 |
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Opinion
It's time for a creative and constructive re-imagining of the challenge facing India as right now there is unprecedented consensus, both on the Maoist threat and on the need for social justice.
K.V. Bapa Rao
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Slice of History
A Journey to the Centre of Imperial Calcutta -- the story of the making of the book
Soumitra Das
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View From the UK
Why the sudden surge in climate change denial? Could it be about something else altogether?
George Monbiot
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For The Record
'But the fact is that no sustained activity is possible under the shadow of the gun. Nor have those who claim to speak for the tribals offered an alternate economic or social path that is viable.'
Manmohan Singh
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| Tuesday, November 03, 2009 |
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Opinion
Democracy threatens to become our morphine, dulling our sensitivity to the world around us. Add to that another catch-word: “Development” - the one being used for framing the current debate over Maoism.
Umair Ahmed Muhajir
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For The Record
This is the golden rule in a democracy. Its sub-rule is that what is a minority in one place could well be the majority in another, says the home minister. 'Alas, some think that the golden rule is dispensable or that it can be applied selectively.'
P. Chidambaram
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Interview
Ram Jethmalani
Defending the accused conspirators of Indira Gandhi’s assassination was no easy task. The senior lawyer talks about a battle which he both won and lost.
Shreevatsa Nevatia
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| Monday, November 02, 2009 |
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Bangalore Byte
The central leadership of the BJP has to make its choice in a paradoxically choice-less situation. Whatever it may do for now, the bandage may come off sooner than expected to expose the wound yet again
Sugata Srinivasaraju
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Opinion
Once the party figures out who the high command is, and where it is located (Delhi or Nagpur) it can perhaps also try to make a few decisions. Till then the party simply withers away.
Saba Naqvi
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