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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
Hari Kunzru in India, Rohinton Mistry and Amit Chaudhary in a spat over Parsis and their long noses and Arundhati under fire...
Opinion
It's no longer Prime Minister Vajpayee who leads the nation. Events lead the nation. Will events set in chain a sequence that alters politics and reforms ...
Showtime
It needs most what it stands against -- first world technology. Nihalini stumbles when he should and could have stomped and danced on the scavenging policies and rotten souls of the WTO and enemy MNCs.
Making A Difference
10 Questions
On his magnum-opus Devdas
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COVER STORY
Revenge, yes, but most children want to forget the trauma they relive every night
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Essay
Disband the Sangh parivar's extra-governmental militias, or we could be heading the way of Zia-ul-Haq's Pakistan.
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OPINION
It has become Everywoman's narrative. The sexual abuse of women has been so public, victims will talk to anyone who'll listen.
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OPINION
In the case of the police, the political attempt to bypass the IPS is more direct. Local MLAs appoint SHOs in Gujarat.
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telugu desam
Naidu's ambivalence sees the party take the walkout route during the Gujarat debate. But it needs the NDA more than ever.
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Regions
A page on the state(s) of the nation -- states covered: Kerala, Gujarat, Karnataka, West Bengal, AP and MP.
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congress
While the NDA staggers from one mistake to another, the lady from 10, Janpath is consolidating her gains. Surely, steadily.
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uttar pradesh
The BSP-BJP coalition in UP is a fact now. But there is disaffection in saffron ranks over its 'unequal' nature.
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Opinion
Subordinate nations will always view international criminal courts as instruments that pose a threat to their sovereignty.
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diplomacy
The MEA's 'internal affairs' spook—launched at Europe—has come back to haunt Indian diplomacy, pushing it against a wall
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Global View
"I am not saying the gas chambers didn't exist...but I think
it is a mere detail in the history of the Second World War."
Jean Marie le Pen, the leader of the far-Right Front National
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pakistan
Musharraf may have won a sham mandate, but it may have only damaged his aspiration to legitimacy
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economy
A disappointing Budget, ineffectual rollbacks and Gujarat. Disenchantment with the NDA continues.
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Sidelights
A page of work and leisure news from India Inc
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Investor
A page on personal finance
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impressions
How many unknown soldiers have sacrificed their lives to our cultural cannibalism, fighting on the battlefield of life in India?
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human development report
It's 10 years late—135 nations, even Myanmar, beat us to it—but that's the least of its ills
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Health
A page on the latest in medical science
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interview
Ganguly, with the kind of team he has, will come out trumps soon, says the Supercat.
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From the Middle
Senior players always need to be isolated when the captain himself is weak. Perhaps why Ganguly is backing Bhajji against Kumble for a team spot.
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Wisden Indian Cricketer Of the century
CK Nayudu epitomised the best in Indian Cricket.
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films
An exploitative Tamil filmdom claims another starlet, the tenth to commit suicide in two decades
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Review
An engaging location of jehad in its historical, literary and cultural context
Pratap Bhanu Mehta on The Shade Of Swords: Jihad And The Conflict Between Islam And Christianity By M.J. Akbar
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Review
It will provoke some, but it must surely make even the blase Neemrana crowd sit up and take notice.
Sanjay Subrahmanyam on Classical Telugu Poetry: An Anthology & Twentieth Century Telugu Poetry: An Anthology By Velcheru Narayana Rao
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