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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
In which Khushwant Singh makes a false accusation into an occasion for Gandhigiri while we wonder what Shabana Azmi and Sushmita Sen have in common with Salman Rushdie and William Dalrymple...
making a difference
Housemaids seek new avenues for study and vocational training beyond their call of duty
movie: review
It's a film from which you'd expect the moon, the stars and the sun, but you get the most wishy-washy film of the year.
10 Questions
On Voices Within, the book she and fellow vocal artiste T.M. Krishna have brought out as a tribute to the spirit of Carnatic music
column
Versatility is a great attribute. It creates men for all seasons. India has many versatile men. Take K.P.S. Gill. Or Sharad Pawar...
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cover story
Our GDP growth is nearing the magical 10% mark. What is fuelling it? What happens next?
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Maharashtra: Dalit Protests
Atrocities, an indifferent state, Dalit rage. Little has changed.
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karnataka: bypoll
The Congress bypoll victory may unravel already-fickle equations
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Law: soren conviction
As much as the crime, did his tribal tag hasten Soren's nemesis?
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Fallen Wicket: Navjot singh sidhu
The complete story of the Sidhu case—all its twists, wrong 'uns, and history of isms
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war room leak
Shankaran still eludes CBI, thanks to help from 'official' quarters
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newsbag
Ulta Pul, Singur, Frank Bainimarama, Mohd Yousuf, John Bolton & Navjot Singh Sidhu
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indo-japan ties
India, Japan have been friends in the past. It's time to cement the ties.
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nuclear deal
After the Indo-US nuclear deal, big business will tap our market
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top quark
We begin at the beginning: the Big Bang. Ask not what preceded it.
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embassy parties
Who hosts the best (and worst) parties in the hallowed diplomatic enclaves of Delhi
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old age bill
At last, the plight of the elderly is taken note of. How far for it to become law?
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tennis
India's best doubles pair is in the past tense. Make that present very tense.
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EXCLUSIVE: Pre-publication extract
December 13. The season for reopening old wounds....A hyper campaign, a mysterious TV update, a book that sifts myth from fact on the Afzal issue. Updates
Arundhati Roy | Extracts from 13 December-A Reader: The Strange Case of the Attack on the Indian Parliament
Introduction by Arundhati Roy
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Review
Political savvy may not be seen as Manmohan Singh's forte, but read his speeches, you see a political man
Dileep Padgaonkar on Selected Speeches Of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh—Vol-II By Manmohan Singh
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Review
Precise, ironic, engaging. A stylist who could unravel a whole tangle of relationships with a telling phrase, the complex world of traditions and incoherent modernity through a tiny gesture.
Girish Karnad on FRONTIERS: Collected Stories By Shama Futehally
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