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Wednesday evening, we had a four-foot cobra, Thursday night a spider as big as my hand, and Friday night a five-inch scorpion...
By Vijay Nambisan
The Secret Diary Of
'Remember to wear a black shoe on your left foot and a sandal on the right. There’s a lot of money riding on it'
The page 3 people, the chatterati and those in the news for being in the news
Random notes, gossip, bitching, angles, conspiracy theories, spoofs, essential fundas
Published feedback from our readers: rants, raves, bouquets, brickbats
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10 Questions
He’s the fake IPL player, the blogger known for his fake behind-the-scene account of IPL II
Showtime
Fails to measure up to what it is inspired from — the most famous 'death' film, Anand.
gossip
From Pom Pom Darling and Lady Chengis Khan to Tome Tome Dahlings
bangalore restaurant
If you want to roll up your sleeves, dig in with your fingers and be pleasantly surprised by the bill
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match-fixing
The Pakistan cricket team was a last ray of hope for a marooned nation. The match-fixing scandal has snuffed that one out too.
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encounter deaths: Chemkuri azad
Despite the reports that Azad was killed in cold blood, the State feigns innocence
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andhra pradeshL polavaram dam
Will Polavaram be another ecocide zone? Not if we apply the Vedanta logic to it.
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kerala: lotteries
The lotteries drain a hoodwinked Kerala
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society: health
More teens are getting cardiac problems today. Is it stress, the lifestyle or just the air?
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healthcare: new paradigms
Hospitals are discovering the advantages of an integrated approach
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controversy: Cairn Energy
With the government firmly opposed to the Cairn sellout, Vedanta has hit another roadblock
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technology: open source
Open standard technology is at hand as the main e-governance platform
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Jyoti Basu: memorial
Bangladesh plans a memorial at Jyoti Basu’s ancestral village
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khaps: protest
Khaps decry film, serial on honour killings
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opinion
Perhaps it’s apt that Rahman sold the scam-tainted CWG a lemon
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sports: FIVB RULES
A dress code for women playing beach volleyball puts Indians in an uncomfortable position
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publishing: teen authors
Good ol’ Enid Blyton they’ve outgrown. These kids are writing tales of their own.
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review
The foreteller of the financial crash ignores a Left-Right binary, faults endemic inequality and political quick-fix
Gurcharan Das on Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten The World Economy By Raghuram G. Rajan
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review
A joy to read and informative; the footnotes are as interesting as the narrative itself
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review
Varma’s intense engagement with his subject yields moving insights, while humorous and tragical interludes lend immediacy.
Namita Gokhale on Before He Was God: Ramayana—Reconsidered, Recreated By Ram Varma
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