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Random notes, gossip, bitching, angles, conspiracy theories, spoofs, essential fundas
Published feedback from our readers: rants, raves, bouquets, brickbats
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Showtime
Any pretensions that Meghna carries forward the Gulzar tradition are dispelled in the first half hour.
Making A Difference
10 Questions
The Kathak diva on her refusal to accept the Padma Bhushan
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Cover Story
After six years of legal
wrangling with Maneka Gandhi over his infringement of her right to privacy (the case has now moved from the Delhi high court to the Supreme Court), Singh's Truth, Love & A Little Malice finally triumphs: an exclusive preview.
Khushwant Singh | Extracts from Truth, Love & A Little Malice By Khushwant Singh
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Ayodhya
Goaded by a restive sant brigade, the VHP turns strident—but Vajpayee is only half listening
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OPINION
Where we lack is in inducting a laser-designated counter-terrorist strike along with a dozen other capabilities.
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legislation
A Right to Information Bill is out there, in some states at least. But the babus are still masters.
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northeast
Politicians keep the campaign low-key fearing the people's ire. And it looks like a hung assembly.
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andhra pradesh
This time, the PWG's offer of talks seems 'quite reasonable'
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Polscape
The controversial transcript of a phone conversation between former Enron India chief, Rebecca Mark and a Maharashtra politico being circulated in the Kolkata underground.
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photoessay
Royalty jostles with dons, eunuchs with sophisticated socialites, godmen with gangsters, big businessmen with small traders, wives with mistresses.
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scandal
Stirrings of a scam can be read in Prabhat Kumar's forced exit
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congress
The party president is forced into being the solo campaigner
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candidates
Having scored zero on performance, political parties are relying on nautanki and tamasha to lure voters to polling booths.
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OPINION
Unlike the West, New Delhi suspects doublespeak in virtually everything President Musharraf says and does. Free Speech: Your take | |
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US
Team Bush is split over granting PoW status to Al Qaeda men
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madrassas
The absence of opposition to Musharraf's madrassa reorientation programme, it's feared, is merely a lull before the mujahideen storm
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dabhol
The DPC leaves in its wake a land destroyed permanently. Everyone has lost something for ever.
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Babubuzz
A page on the quirks in public administration
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OPINION
Free India's mantris and santris have lived amid abundant greenery. But they haven't ever planted a single tree.
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Down Town
Page three baba and baby log -- and other such.
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Eating Out
Shalini Sharma Dines Vijay Mallya
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Gossip
Who's in and who's out at the Neemrana litterati, oops, literati fest, and where the best corn pops.
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lifestyles
Sleepy Guwahati turns boomtown, with money to burn and a 'with it' attitude
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Habitation
Mumbai: in Juhu at Iris Park.
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new economy
Snail mail apart, post offices soup up their functional repertoire
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cricket
These boys will be men soon. And if their illustrious fathers are on course, India may well have an incredible playing eleven.
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interview
On why the no fuss, no fizz badminton star turned down a soft drink giant even though it meant kissing a lucrative contract goodbye.
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Review
Her grandmom eloped, so did her mom, but it was dance Sukanya inherited
Sunil Sethi on Dancing In The Family—An Unconventional Memoir Of Three Women By Sukanya Rahman
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