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Whether one travels ‘cattle class’ or business class from Delhi to Riyadh, one encounters boorish, nouveau riche, first-generation fellow travellers...
By Ather Farouqui
The Secret Diary Of
When BJP president Nitin Gadkari called to say I was part of his team, it was like getting an express bouncer from a spinner
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gossip
We may have beaten them in hockey but when it comes to writing, the most exciting books are from Pakistan
10 Questions
The director of Bengali film Antaheen, the best feature at the national awards
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The film, a set of three stories that intertwine, is remarkable in the way it experiments with the digicam to create a novel, audacious narrative
bangalore Restaurant
The Karnataka government has just dropped a bill against cow slaughter, and burger junkies are heaving a sigh of relief.
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Gandhians with a Gun? Arundhati Roy plunges into the sea of Gondi people to find some answers...
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gujarat riots: narendra modi
The SIT has summoned him in a Gujarat ’02 case. But the trail is muddied.
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reservation Bill: Muslim women
Muslim women representatives are all for the reservation bill
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review
This novel’s self-flagellating neurosis points at our true distress, but its tone is marred by a cold stream
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review
Sometimes having a set of developed characters is not enough; it is necessary for them to do something to or with each other
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