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cricket ipl

Underarm Bowling?

Excluding Pakistanis from the IPL was a sordid affair, and Modi its unctuous author

Feb 08, 2010

| Rohit Mahajan
- Firing Squads
street: wall art

Paint The Town Blue

Art is now rescuing public walls from rampant vandalism

Feb 08, 2010

| Sugata Srinivasaraju Smruti Koppikar Pushpa Iyengar Snigdha Hasan Dola Mitra
bengal: ecology

The Sea And The Swamp

After the Kumbh, it’s the Ganga Sagar mela. But can the sea gods save Sagar Island itself?

Feb 08, 2010

| Dola Mitra
society: andhra pradesh

Easy Matronymy

Students to be free to go by mother’s name

Feb 08, 2010

| Madhavi Tata
opinion

The Claws Of The State

The war on Maoists is backed by a parallel war on rights activists

Feb 08, 2010

| Jyoti Punwani
jnu: quota in faculty

A Few Misread Signs

The questioners of quotas in higher faculty now become the questioned in their community

Feb 08, 2010

| Anuradha Raman
opinion

Aye Aye, MK

Will a gubernatorial role contain a lifelong top cop?

Feb 08, 2010

| R.K. Raghavan
culture: literature

Read Betwixt Lines

Open, lithe, eclectic—the Jaipur Litfest’s roaring success may prompt many to ask for more

Feb 08, 2010

| Sheela Reddy
review

The Munshi Of Bartania

Victoria’s reliance on Abdul Karim and his misuse of it is seen through the web of a much-mythologised age

Feb 08, 2010

| Swapan Dasgupta
review

First Light

Embodies the spirit of Kalakshetra style of Bharatanatyam in content, style and visual appeal

Feb 08, 2010

| Jaya Jaitly
indians in australia

Do You Speak Australian?

The new visibility of Indians—fresh off the ships, insufficiently ‘Aussie’, swamping the job scene—feeds a latent racism

Feb 08, 2010

| Pranay Sharma
Environment controversy

Frost Bites

Himalayan blunder or fudged fact? Anyway, Dr R.K. Pachauri’s is a fall from grace.

Feb 08, 2010

| Lola Nayar Debarshi Dasgupta Ashish Kumar Sen
- ‘An Intentional Effort To Distort The Debate...Borders On Outright Fraud’
- “Certain Countries Are Dictating IPCC’s Line’
opinion

So What If You Aren’t Shahrukh, You Can Still Be An Ass

You may win the tactical fairness battle but consider the long-term costs involved—a life-long cosmetic prison, irreversible health damage

Feb 08, 2010

| Shefalee Vasudev
EXCLUSIVE
investigation ashok chaturvedi

A Spy And His Soup

A former RAW chief gets the rules bent to obtain diplomatic passports and immunity

Feb 08, 2010

| Saikat Datta

Last Page

Bombay Diary

Has the mafia taken over our financial capital? What’s Marathi for Cabs? Raj Thackeray has got his New Year’s gift and he is bound to make the most of it.

Feb 08, 2010

| Rahul Singh

Glitterati

The page 3 people, the chatterati and those in the news for being in the news

Letters

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10 Questions

Reena Kaushal

The first Indian woman to ski to the South Pole

Feb 08, 2010

| Snigdha Hasan
gossip

Bibliofile

Feb 08, 2010

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hyderabad Restaurant

Speciali-Tea

Feb 08, 2010

| Anvar Alikhan
The Secret Diary Of

Lalit Modi

When the IPL commissioner commandeth, the team owners obeyeth. So when I said, ‘No Paki players this time’, no one dared bid for them.

Feb 08, 2010

| Ajith Pillai
showtime

Veer

Anil Sharma’s film reminds you of many others—Sholay, Lagaan, Dharam-Veer, Braveheart, Gladiator, Troy, Conan the Barbarian, to name a few. But...

Feb 08, 2010

| Namrata Joshi