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delhi gangrape
The ‘normalcy’ of violence—sexual violence being the most perverted—is India’s lot. One girl’s nightmare focuses the light.
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INDIA’s MAHA BORES
We need bores as much as we need the interesting types. And they are everywhere, in every field, from politics to cricket.
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INDIA’s MAHA BORES
Dipped into the Great Indian Bore well, and look what we found...
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INDIA’s MAHA BORES
Vizzy-Berry-Puri befuddled with their drawl. Our TV gurus carry the torch proudly.
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INDIA’s MAHA BORES
Who were the biggest zits on the idiot box? A champion schmoozer and talkanova lists his 2012 Top 5 in the bores-on-the-box category.
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INDIA’s MAHA BORES
Some of the worst fare from Bollywood is difficult even to sleep through
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INDIA’s MAHA BORES
A few of our less favourite things, one more inane than the other. Yet we endure them, and ensure they remain enduring.
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In Praise Of BOREDOM
The yawn of lassitude, the drab of the quotidian, the assembly line of repetition—the late poet laureate waxes soporific on the redundancy of time.
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Still Life
Photo by photo, this collage of 2012 does not frame world events but points up their significance amidst a maelstrom of images.
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Opinion
India is in protest mode, for tough laws and tough rulers. What if we get what we want?
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Rating India
A look at how India fared in different global rankings in 2012
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Stateside View
It wasn't all dark. Some good news trickled in
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12/13
The undeservedly underappreciated get theirs
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The Big Fights
The war of the words
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2012 The Year That Was
It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible
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BOOKS 2012
Personages from across the spectrum tell Outlook about the books in 2012 that helped pass time, or enriched its passage
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Passing On
A line, a tune, a picture. Memories, it’s all we are left with.
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12/13
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Last Page
It took a battered woman’s gasps for life in the final fortnight to hold a mirror to the serial offences the Republic has quietly endured.
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