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15 Years Ago

Nandini Bandopadhyay on a mayor putting up an elephant show in Berlin: On Sunday, July 16, Berliners were treated to a rare spectacle at Hoppegarten. About 15 elephants raced along a 200-metre track for the Mah­araja Cup, a first-of-its-kind event in Europe, organised to celebrate India’s 50 years of Independence by the only non-white mayor in Germany, Ravindra Gujjala. http://bit.ly/1fGqKkX

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10 Years Ago

Sugata Srinivasaraju, on the Mysore maharaja’s makeover: Srikanta Datta Narasimharaja Wodeyar has had a makeover. The most apparent thing is his looks: he has lost a lot of weight and sports a goatee. His new avatar matches his new profess­ion as fashion designer. Wodeyar has also announced a string of new projects: an airline—”a palace on air”; an online university; his website. http://bit.ly/1JRle73

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5 Years Ago

Ashish Kumar Sen, on the ISI-Taliban nexus: WikiLeaks.org gave The New York Times, The Guardian and German magazine Der Spiegel unfettered access to more than 90,000 raw intelligence reports from Afghanistan. These documents affirm what many in the US administration and the chambers of Congress have been saying for long: the ISI is hand in glove with the Taliban. They say Polish intelligence had warned of an attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul a week before the July 7, 2008, bombing. http://bit.ly/1OO6uKC

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