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Examining Rahul Gandhi’s public confession showing a disinterest in both native wife and the coveted gaddi...
By Vinod Mehta
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Am I a senior cricketer or a school boy to be asked to do homework? Even if they call it a ‘presentation’?
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Movie Review
Gets moralistic, cliched and cringingly sanctimonious. But with a riveting performance by Saurabh Shukla
Movie Review
Despite its flaws, it is engaging and enjoyable. And what a gangster Irrfan makes!
10 Questions
London-based writer Anil Ananthaswamy on winning the Physics Journalism Prize and why being a science writer is fun.
Gossip
Author and editor Manu Joseph beats E.L. James in Holland. Also meet: Mohan R.D.
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indo-italian ties
Or is there a greater design to this much ado about marines both in India and in Italy?
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 opinion What The Romans DoItaly has delivered an insult. It shouldn’t be taken lying down. Amit Baruah |
italian scenes Talk On The Via AppiaPopular fist-pumping aside, saner voices in Italy reject the state’s marine rescue Philip Willan |
kerala The Sea Boils At MuzirisKerala feels the Centre colluded with the Italians Minu Ittyipe |
 out-take Lasagna LafangaThe shooters are out. Outlook goes to the mattresses against Italiana. Saba Naqvi |
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excerpt
The celebrated author lends a preface and perspective to an updated book of essays on the Afzal Guru investigation and trial
Arundhati Roy | Extracts from The Hanging Of Afzal Guru
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punjab: drugs bust
A big haul of heroin, two famous boxers...the Punjab drug story is not going away
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government: sexual abuse bill
A draft bill on women’s security is bogged down trying to build safeguards for men
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governor: appointment
What or who can make Raj Bhavans relevant? Ex-IPS officers? Nay
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karnataka: civic polls
The Congress civic poll win opens a door, but it’s one swallow...
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 jump cut Reading The ChaMuslims seem to have coalesced around the congress, perhaps why Kumaraswamy lost Ramanagara. Prithvi Datta Chandra Shobhi |
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W. bengal: politics
Saugata Roy speaks his mind on land, then sits out
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opinion
This defence of Bangla’s fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami is ludicrous
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business: aviation
Low-cost AirAsia’s expected entry will rejuvenate a sickly sector, boost foreign investor confidence
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health: insomnia
March 15, World Sleep Day. A time we woke up to the disease that is sleeplessness.
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maharashtra: tigers
Tiger counts in four Maharashtra reserves show a dramatic increase. How did it happen?
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Mind your body
And just like that, the food of Gods, Ghee, was deemed ‘fattening’. A 5,000-year-old wisdom wiped out
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cricket: team australia
Indiscipline stalks, then tears into Australian cricket. Can they wrest hope from the ruins?
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 opinion Antipodean AttitudesCA’s clumsy cricket management ignored youth, led to today’s crisis Brian Stoddart |
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tribute
Ganesh Pyne strove for artistic truth in a melancholic fantasy
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Review
Urban India, its fervid ambitions, a girl's sentimental education make up a novel of allegorical realism
Anjana Basu on The Accidental Apprentice By Vikas Swarup
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Review
A novel set in Bangalore that’s not quite like anything done before in the English language.
Sumana Mukherjee on Mr Majestic—Tout Of Bengaluru By Zac O'Yeah
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