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Throughout history, Venice, with its Virgin Mary cult, has been known as ‘the city of miracles’. That the miracle happened this year is thanks to two people...
By Maseeh Rahman
the Secret Diary of
So, if I’m neither in Karachi nor in Islamabad, where am I? For obvious reasons, I can’t tell you my latest location...
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
The author of Growing Up Bin Laden, the story of Osama’s wife Najwa and son Omar
movie review
The first half promises a cat-and-mouse game, but, post interval, it fumbles to a denouement...
movie review
A frothy high school romance with a message-in-the-bottle that could have been fun had it not been so exasperating
gossip
Wonder what it must feel like to be a Random House author—old publisher ready to leave, new publisher nowhere in sight.
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the ganga
The much-sullied Ganga receives fresh funds and attention
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bangladesh: rail links
India-Bangladesh to revive snapped railway links
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opinion
The Indian media’s anti-Pakistan vitriol reeks of opportunist populism
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Diplomacy: iraq
For India’s new envoy to Iraq, a quiet renewal
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sri lanka: war atrocities
A documentary collates the horrors from the final war against the LTTE
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economy: trade unions
The strike at the Maruti Suzuki plant shows workers’ rights is still a simmering issue
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mumbai: drinking age
Mumbai’s higher drinking age brews more questions than answers
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andhra: drug trials
Poor Andhra villagers now victims of clinical drug trials
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mumbai: parsis
High stakes at an ill-tempered Parsi election
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Mind your body
You can’t indulge in pranayama for a flat stomach or do an asana for weight loss.
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cricket: 1971
Indian cricket graduated with honours 40 summers ago, in 1971
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entertainment: magic
Gopinath Muthukad is the global king of magic, Merlin 2011
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congress: history
Neither an ‘official’ history nor a party perspective. Just a hard lens on her rule.
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review
A virtuoso study of poverty employs anthropological rigour, is shot with psychological insight, plumps for contentious randomised trials and believes in small interventions
Pratap Bhanu Mehta on Poor Economics: Rethinking Poverty And The Ways To End It By Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Dufflo
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review
The sequel to Paro is a racy read and wonderful to carry on a summer vacation. And personally, I’d love another sequel
Paro Anand on Priya: In Incredible Indyaa By Namita Gokhale
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Review
A wonderful attempt to recreate the magic between India and the Arab world.
Pranay Sharma on India and The UAE: In Celebration Of a Legendary Friendship By Venu Rajamony
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