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10 Questions
Anthropologist and soap-addict on her book Prime Time Soap Operas on Indian Television
showtime
A triumph of mise-en-scene, with superb art direction and a refined palette of tones, more matte than glossy. But in going for surface, they sacrificed a bit of depth
gossip
What's common to Das, Doniger and Dalrymple? No, not just the letter D. OK, here's a hint: heard of a blurb fest?
Bangalore Restaurant
Not only is the Cubbon Pavilion a riotous cascade of green plants, it also takes green dining very seriously.
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essay
A math question: How many soldiers will it take to contain the mounting rage of hundreds of millions of people?
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west bengal: rajdhani hijack
A day after the Rajdhani hijack, Banstala simmers
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politics: telecom
Despite the CBI probe, Raja walks the political edge, keeps his seat
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healthcare: aiims
India’s ace hospital AIIMS as cash cow? Where’ll the poor go?
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karnataka
A once-in-a-century flood—why the urgency to relocate villages?
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poll sutra
The world must be told about the story of the ‘double life’ of Spectrum Raja—comic hero and minister....
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opinion
The hurt that moves Pakistan is from a wound more recent—1971
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EXCLUSIVE labour chinese workers
With Chinese contracts come illegal Chinese workers, swamping the worksites
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urban landscape: architecture
Why are we still emulating colonial structures? Where are our starchitects?
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opinion
Soaked through with Bollywood, the big shows are doing soggily
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music: royalties
No more lopsided contracts. Musicians want their copyright.
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review
Autobiography masquerades as novel in a tale of vicious dysfunction overcome by resoluteness of spirit
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review
Can’t quite pull off the trick of stripping small-town India’s facade of apparent mundaneness to find something more engaging.
Hari Menon on Chai, Chai: Travels In Places Where You Stop But Never Get Off By Bishwanath Ghosh
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review
Requires huge leaps of faith and doses of incredulity. But shocks to the system are always welcome
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