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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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Gossip
Waffle of the toffs? Who is M. Prabha? Does she exist? Where does she live?
Opinion
Hooray! POTO has become POTA! Now the government can fight terrorism. And worry not. Law minister Jaitley says POTO is not draconian like TADA.
But ...
Showtime
An actual story told in the actual, possible way -- no fussing over story/plot conventions.
Making A Difference
10 Questions
CEO, Ten Sports
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cover story
Young urban Indians are paying a heavy price for their obsession with upward mobility—their bodies are becoming unwitting homes to crippling and fatal lifestyle diseases
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child labour
Rapacious dalals and a drying farm economy force Bihar's Rat-Eaters, the lowest of the low, to sell off their children
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OPINION
Malik is at most guilty of violating FEMA, so why's he in jail? Because Farooq wants Hurriyat out of the polls. So does Pakistan.
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OPINION
The colluding administrators should have the fear of an international, public trial. Genocide can't hide behind sovereignty.
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gujarat
The police establishment is in the midst of a storm over the transfer of some dutiful IPS officers
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J&K
POTO finds a scalp in the ailing JKLF chief in a tense poll run-up
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Delhi
The BJP has few takers, even within, in the Delhi municipal polls
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human rights
A cynical Modi government appals the NHRC chief and he rejects its first 'all's-well' report, forcing it to issue a second
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Legislation
POTA is now law, thanks to a rarely-used strategem by the BJP. But it's still up to the states whether to use it or not.
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tamil nadu
Jayalalitha plays the Hindu card to realign the state BJP with her. Meanwhile, a weakened DMK treads gingerly in the waters.
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bangladesh
The new power centre is—no surprise—the PM's son
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profile
Wannabe swami Harish Bharti takes on the food giant and wins one for the cowbelt expats in the US of A
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pakistan
Past referendums have been nothing but a farce. Will Musharraf be enacting yet another?
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employment
Immigrant Indians and Chinese use their own LANs and back-up systems to get ahead
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shoptalk
A page of work and leisure news from India Inc.
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bihar
In a blighted state, this cooperative stands out for two good reasons: it makes money, and gives much of it to ruralfolk
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OPINION
It was Advani's new concept, to bring religion into politics. Confusion has since reigned on what the Hindu religion has become.
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OPINION
Many of us in the media have forgotten the power we wield. A casual statement, retracted later, can devastate someone's life.
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Eating Out
Pankaj Pachauri Dines Mark Tully
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Gossip
Soli Sorabjee's Parsi jokes and other titbits from around town.
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Life Line
A page on the latest in medical science
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Habitation
New Delhi's Nizamuddin.
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Suicides
Its killer precision makes the Calcutta metro a lure for suicides
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Down Town
Art aficionados and gallery-hoppers, Gurinder Chadha's latest, Bowrings's auctions, Nalini Malani's unique video art, Milind Soman and cafedreams.
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telugu movies
NTR's grandson hopes to be the late screen icon's true 'successor'
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Review
Tells you all you need to know about the actor without being idolatrous or malicious.
Bhaichand Patel on The Thespian: Life And Films Of Dilip Kumar By Urmila Lanba
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Trash of the Fortnight
Harnesses the purple prose and heated imaginations of our "filmi" press into more pucca prose
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