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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
Nirad Babu and Laxness? Where's the heat, and where the dust? O tempora! O mores! Bookers sell but not Family Matters?
Opinion
The government's half-hearted moves against the vhp will make things worse. The prime minister underestimates the VHP. On March 18, this column said: ...
Showtime
Plenty of prurience to keep dirty minds busy while plot and character are jettisoned and the good plot goes splat.
Making A Difference
10 Questions
on American rappers Truth Hurts’ rendition of her ’70s song Thoda Resham Lagta Hai in their album and also
contemporary Bollywood music
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cover story
Statesman or artful dodger, consummate actor or harried politician.... Is Vajpayee any one or all of these?
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OPINION
If the BJP wins in Gujarat, it'll not simply be because of Hindu anger over Godhra, but due to a deeper, darker chauvinism.
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the communists
China's pro-capitalist tilt yields a split opinion in the Left here
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gujarat
Freed—if temporarily—from the Modi regime's Orwellian ways, bureaucrats and police take a breather in borrowed oxygen More Coverage | |
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STATES OF THE NATION
X and Y didn't make the news, Zee did it; The bomb that blew on their face; When the script got botched; Weighing a deadly anchor; Which side are the conservatives?; And a shotgun wedding.
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gujarat riots
A citizens' panel confirms the post-Godhra riots were planned More Coverage | |
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profile
He has a 'keen intellect', is 'cautious but articulate' and has a terrific memory. But for all that, China's new chief remains an unknown quantity. More Coverage | |
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pakistan
A Balochi dark horse squeaks through, but a one-vote majority ties his fate to Musharraf's pleasure More Coverage | |
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us
The counter to terror is 'racial profiling'. And South Asians get the brunt of this inversion of plain old American freedom.
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sri lanka
Legal and political propriety force Delhi to downplay the Oslo do More Coverage | |
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ISPs
Time was when everyone wanted to go ISP. But shaky revenue models, exaggerated projections meant there was hell to pay.
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maharashtra
A disastrous blend of profligacy and populism brings a once-showpiece state to its fiscal knees
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takeovers
The oldest rule in the book comes into force—especially since the rules are not made clear
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controversy
A $100 mn grant goes a long way, but the Microsoft boss' big stakes in Big Pharma also raise a few uneasy questions
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Down Town
Dining at Tendulkar's; Mirrors of the East; Awesome threesome; High eco logic; Of ordinary men; The road to Nepal and A coup of sorts.
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Madhu Jain dines M.A.K. Pataudi
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Gossip
Delhi bids adieu to French envoy Bernard de Montferrand and his wife, M.F. Husain's heartburn and Manisha Koirala to play Indira Gandhi.
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New delhi
Another rape in broad daylight, and fear grips capital's campuses
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EXCLUSIVE
Random drug-testing awaits players at the 2003 World Cup as the ICC formulates its anti-doping code
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Exide Cup
With the matches being more or less a run feast, the two teams have shared the honours evenly, no matter who wins the series
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"I'd have loved to be..." A new column on the alternate aspirations of celebrities
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Music
Few have had the kind of success music director A.R. Rahman has become accustomed to. He now wants to 'push the limits', in India and abroad.
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Review
A straight-laced book, augmented by its vivid imagery and solidity
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Review
Some essays are entirely based on newspaper reports; others are hardly held together by a single theme ... the idealisation of Vallabhbhai Patel does not carry conviction.
Mushirul Hasan on Communal Rage In Secular India By Rafiq Zakaria
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Review
However disarmingly displayed, the author and the protagonist's political naivete are embarrassing.
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