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mumbai blasts

Maximum Seismicity

As his city becomes a recurrent victim of terror, the Mumbaikar sinks deeper into fatalistic acceptance

Jul 25, 2011

| Smruti Koppikar
mumbai blasts

Built For Speed...Them?

Crisis control has improved, but not by much

Jul 25, 2011

| Outlook
mumbai blasts

Bloodied Diamonds

Bull’s-eye painted on Mumbai’s diamond hub

Jul 25, 2011

| Outlook

itbp: army control

In The Army Eye

The army’s move to control ITBP stokes ire

Jul 25, 2011

| Chandrani Banerjee
opinion

Trash That Poverty Register

We must find more imaginative ways to take aid to the poor

Jul 25, 2011

| Neelabh Mishra
politics: dmk

An Earthly Eclipse

Karunanidhi finds himself beleaguered on the political and the familial fronts

Jul 25, 2011

| Pushpa Iyengar
maoists: social profile

Was There A Choice?

Interrogation reports reveal the mind of young Maoist recruits in Chhattisgarh

Jul 25, 2011

| Saikat Datta
governance: judiciary

Order! Lances Atilt!

Have recent SC orders trespassed on the executive’s turf and waved the pennant of ideology?

Jul 25, 2011

| Anuradha Raman
- ‘Supreme Court Order On Corruption Is Difficult To Support’

britain: media

A Deep Paper Cut

Britain rages; the News Of The World perishes; Murdoch manoeuvres

Jul 25, 2011

| Saptarshi Ray

economy: reforms debate

The Growth Of Doubters

The ‘neo-liberal’ tag comes at the worst time for a reforms agenda

Jul 25, 2011

| Pragya Singh

mumbai: cuisine

Epicurus Has A New Joint

A Mumbai icon expands. It just shows you never can have too much of a good thing

Jul 25, 2011

| Smita Mitra
opinion

Doc, Please Talk To My Dad

Breaking the sex ed taboo is raising awareness in kids—and parents

Jul 25, 2011

| Advaita Kala
kashmir: weddings

The Year Of The Goat

With the guns silent, Kashmiri weddings are back to the ritz and glitz of old

Jul 25, 2011

| Chander Suta Dogra
- Twenty Dishes Too Many
survey: languages

Enhanced Speakers

A new survey is to take stock of all our languages

Jul 25, 2011

| Debarshi Dasgupta

opinion

The Drip-Dope-Drip Irrigation System

Coaches and officials run an assembly line for doping and cleaning up

Jul 25, 2011

| Sunita Godara

fiction: short story

An Untitled Tale

An unpublished Kannada short story of A.K. Ramanujan which was discovered in a stack of papers by his wife

Jul 25, 2011

| A.K. Ramanujan

pakistan: film

A Speakeasy Panorama

Bol exposes the religion-addled sores of Pakistani society. It’s also a call to action.

Jul 25, 2011

| Amir Mir

10 Questions

Shatrughan Sinha

The actor on promoting the Bhojpuri language through Ke Bani Crorepati

Jul 25, 2011

| Smita Mitra
gossip

Bibliofile

To all the authors feeling stranded by this unending game of musical chairs, our only advice is: hang in there, it’s got to get better...

Jul 25, 2011

| Outlook
Last Page

Mumbai Diary

In the monsoon, that old journalistic idiom--dog bites man is not news, man bites dog is news--changes to man fells tree is not news, tree fells man is news.

Jul 25, 2011

| Anil Dharker
mumbai restaurant

The Aperitif Made Redundant

This little Churchgate joint is a miniature social history of Mumbai.

Jul 25, 2011

| Anvar Alikhan
Review

Hot Air Beneath A Layer Of Subcutaneous Fat

Adiga resurrects a Mumbai staple: the grasping builder versus an idealist, parcelling it in comically fustian prose

Jul 25, 2011

| Kalpish Ratna
Review

Cleft Stick

Nag prefers to steer away from opinion and stick safely to facts. It's a quick run-through of the issue for outsiders.

Jul 25, 2011

| Gita Ramaswamy
the Secret Diary of

Sonia Gandhi

One must admit that there’s some truth to Moilyji’s statement that “vested interests” got him out of the law ministry!

Jul 25, 2011

| Ajith Pillai
Movie Review

Murder 2

Sex, skin and gore: unfortunately, all it eventually adds up to is quite a big bore.

Jul 25, 2011

| Namrata Joshi
Movie review

Chillar Party

An apology of a plot and an utterly clumsy attempt at story-telling

Jul 25, 2011

| Namrata Joshi
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