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When mischief-makers, coups and middlemen are all the buzz, let me take you back to a time when I was also misled
By Vinod Mehta
the Secret Diary of
I outshouted, outscreamed and temporarily silenced Rajdeep Sardesai on the CNN-IBN channel...
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 India representative of Royal Caribbean Cruises on luxury liners and Indian vacationers
Movie Review
Interesting social observations don’t necessarily a good film make
Movie Review
Like a spicy mirchi bajji. It sticks to the time-tested Telugu formula of a mass entertainer
mumbai restaurant
Not as fancy as some of Mumbai’s other Chinese joints, but it’s a place that many serious foodies swear by.
gossip
The next big book to make news? Kuldip Nayar’s memoirs. Or A a biography of liquor baron and aviation pauper, Vijay Mallya?
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the next president
The First Citizen race hots up. Parties get their pawns in place.
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the next president The Giani’s Riot ActZail Singh would have gladly been Indira’s ‘sweeper’. The rules changed for Rajiv.
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pratibha patil The Tai Of FizzlePratibha Patil leaves no lasting impression on her office Smruti Koppikar, Prarthna Gahilote |
pratibha patil Where Mum Is the WordIn Amravati, Rajendra Shekhawat’s writ runs on the strength of his mother’s exalted position Smruti Koppikar |
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opinion
Mamata once believed in democracy. Time she rediscovered it.
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opinion
Arundhati has got it all wrong—the facts speak out against her romantic notions of the tribals’ fight
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EXCLUSIVE investigation: Tatra kolos deal
Tatra spares is just one of Rishi’s ‘businesses’
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interview
The Tehreek-e-Insaf leader on relations with the army, Indo-Pak relations, ties with the USA, terrorism from Pakistan, 26/11, Hafiz Saeed and much more
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opinion
A few eternal verities pock-mark all the flux in Afghanistan. Policy has to navigate around them.
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economy: statistics
Our counters get the industrial index wrong
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gold loans: rbi safeguards
They fill the void between bank and shark, but can NBFCs survive a contrarian RBI?
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opinion
Why kill over a people’s dietary preference for beef?
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health: food
There's more to those bottles and jars filling our larders and refrigerators than what their labels say
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right to education: teething troubles
The Supreme Court judgement notwithstanding, issues persist on the EWS reservation
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governance: rte Classic DodgeIs the govt ducking its responsibility with RTE? Anuradha Raman, Pushpa Iyengar, Dola Mitra |
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profile: small-town sumo
She’s an oddity. Her craft, a mystery. What is it about her that feels ‘real’ somehow?
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Review
In Chughtai’s memoirs words come pell-mell, out of her consciousness. Her demanding prose is translated well.
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Review
A storyteller with keen imagination and startling turns of phrase, a nuanced grasp of human bondage and knifelike measure of love
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Review
A gentle insight into village life, interspersed with ragi recipes
Nandita Iyer on Ragi-Ragini: Chronicles From Aji’s Kitchen By Anjali Purohit
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books
His working day—his surroundings, his routine, the conditions that allow him to write
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