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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
A word a day brings publishers your way? So do biographies, apparently.
Opinion
It was a freezing twilight in Delhi when my car stopped at a traffic intersection. A cop stood on the pavement wearing a cotton uniform. I rolled down ...
Showtime
It firmly stands by the outdated notions of morality and makes you question why a sexy woman cannot be shown as normal?
Making A Difference
10 Questions
On why a new film company he is part of will redefine Indian cinema
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cover story
That seems to be the case with the Indian health sector. While most doctors toil nobly away, the rotten few erode a basic element: trust.
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impressions
Mayawati, the diamond-studded Dalit empress, emerged in a pink salwar out of a Bollywood stage to cut a gargantuan B-day cake, Marie Antoinette style.
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OPINION
An e-mail that was alleged to contain a list of jehadis was key evidence. It only listed casualties from Gilgit's Balwaristan movement.
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interview
A little after the NSCN(IM) and New Delhi agreed to continue the peace talks, the NSCN general secretary sent in his written replies to the questions submitted earlier this week.
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Dalits
Mayawati's constituency sees Dalit assertion in her birthday bash. But will it suffice?
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madhya pradesh
That's what Diggy Raja is doing, to fight double incumbency and a BJP buoyed by its Gujarat win
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rajasthan
Boxed in from all sides, local Brahmins turn militant. They want in on the reservation pie.
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STATES OF THE NATION
For this author, democracy has its own rewards; The life cycle of secessionism; The missionary's vulnerable position; Matchmaking in cyberspace; Patriotism is not all garbage; PR overdrive on superhighway
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iraq
Life's going on for the average Baghdadi, George W. Bush's threats notwithstanding
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Indo-pak
High commission officials in India and Pakistan are scapegoats in the arch-rivals' brutally stupid game of brinkmanshi
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iits
The IIT-50 bash by the alumni saw the who's who laud the institution. Can the techies now take it further?
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nepal
A royal wedding is but a bright interlude in a gloom-hit nation
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crime
Shetty's murder may lead to a shake-up in the betting cartels. Is it advantage Chhota Rajan?
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export
India's surging rate of exports to the US, against the tide of world trade, points to a salutary churning in its fundamentals
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telecom
It's a dialogue of the deaf as everybody hangs up on everybody else
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"I'd have loved to be..."
A column on the alternate
aspirations of celebrities
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weather
With no contingency plans and few resources, the northern belt reels under a cold wave. Hundreds of the abject poor succumb.
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Downtown
Nail care grips Mumbai's denizens, Delhi's samples Bangalore's best, eves' power and Mallika Sarabhai's new creation.
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Lata Khubchandani dines Aparna and Konkana Sen
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fashion
Mallica Singh does a pre-emptive strike on the designer sentiments for the season
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V.S.Naipaul's 'catty' love, Dileep Padgaonkar's 'plum' assignment' and the gossip from Bollywood.
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TVS Victor Profile
It was in the series against India last summer that Vaughan transformed himself from just another promising batsman to being the bedrock of the English side.
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preview
K.G. Subramanyan combines profundities with the banal
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Review
Hastings tells us how the editor's job, after the proprietor's, is one to envy
Vinod Mehta on Editor—An Inside Story Of Newspapers By Max Hastings
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Review
Managing to compress a saga spanning 3,500 years, offers a panoramic overview of the Zoroastrian people.
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Review
Saraogi's fantastical reconstructions fill in a major silence in the evolution of Bengal's history - with a partial voice no doubt
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