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Gossip
Shifting loyalties are a luxury that Indian authors are just discovering ...
Opinion
Years ago this writer wrote a column for the now defunct Illustrated Weekly of India. For six months before the liberation of Bangladesh it campaigned ...
Showtime
Kamal thinks Anbey Sivam intelligently combines a tribute to Hashmi and Chaplin.
Making A Difference
10 Questions
On the Sahitya Akademi award for his Urdu collection of stories, Dhuan
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Cover Story
Take a cup of leftism. Stir in dashes of caring and fun. Blend with performance-obsessed managing. Garnish with middle-class values. Result: a success cocktail.
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Opinion
The Constitution, not the Hindu Right, grants the Muslim his place in the country. It's his Indianness he can use as a weapon of assertion.
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OPINION
The suddenness with which Modi adopted hate as his poll campaign has left the Congress groping for an effective counter-strategy.
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tamil nadu
The DMK's bitter battles with the state BJP continue, so how long can they hang on at the Centre?
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elections/HP
That obscure demon, anti-incumbency, stalks the BJP in Himachal and Modi's Hindutva campaign could be a dubious boon More Coverage | |
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Maharashtra
Shinde replaces the much-warned Deshmukh but faces dissidence, a massive financial crisis and a resurgent Sena-BJP More Coverage | |
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rajasthan
Looming polls, caste factor help Gehlot hold on More Coverage | |
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STATES OF THE NATION
She had her cake, then ate it too; From frame-up to goof-up; Getting those cowboy blues; The evangelist's living hell; Agnivarsha in Pune; The customary musical chairs.
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OPINION
Nepal's experiment with anarchy and democracy holds a lesson for India—how autonomised regions of India could evolve.
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opinion
The choice of the Stalinist structures of Pragati Maidan was matched only by other reminders to NRIs of our ugly bureaucracy.
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migration
Illegal Indian immigrants to EU find friends in the Russian mafia
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pakistan
With the MMA zealots nipping at his heels, NWFP chief minister Durrani shows up his illiberal side
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Pakistan
Islamabad is hard pressed to withdraw its 'diplo-basher'. New Delhi is only too relieved.
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lifestyle
Having survived for ages, is 'the' Indian garment dying?
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TVS VICTOR PROFILES
There are many facets to Jayasuriya, but all of them can be summed up in one phrase, a quiet achiever. Or Simply Sanath, shall we say?
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Bollywood
Has just-divorced actor Aamir Khan sprung for an English rose?
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art
When it comes to the erotic, Indian artists aren't fighting shy
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culture
The global 'Ketchup' shake has them on the dance floor here too
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films
'2003 will decide whether Bollywood will survive or if it'll be The End.' Here are some of the milestones on that crucial course. Make your choice.
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Review
Observant, humorous, self-effacing, reminds me in a way of Lawrence of Arabia — mentally tough.
Ruskin Bond on Footloose In The Himalaya By Bill Aitken
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