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Khar racing (08 November 04:51) |
| Fifty-one years ago, Sonal Mamoowala was born in the Ajinkya nursing home on Khar’s 11th Road. Today, the interior designer stays in a plush seven-storeyed building where the nursing home ... |
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Almost famous (08 November 04:44) |
| The story of the young hopeful who leaves small-town India to make it big in Bollywood has been told and re-told in our popular culture. Yet there is something about that story that makes us... |
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Post-election musings (08 November 04:41) |
| Khushwant Singh analyzes reasons of the election outcome and speculate what they portend for the future. |
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The Boston Schoolboy (08 November 04:07) |
| Little Jigme Wangchuk turned out to be the first reincarnation of Gyalwa Lorepa, a Buddhist spiritual leader, in 759 years. Amitava Banerjee writes on how the spiritual leader has switched u... |
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Education can stop people from fighting in the name of religion (08 November 03:53) |
| Khushwant Singh’s article Terror in the name of God (With Malice Towards One And All, November 1) presents a cogent correlation between violence and religion. |
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One day one man (08 November 03:48) |
| The sheer sugar rush of watching Sachin (pronounced ‘Such-chin!’ each time he hits a boundary) single-handedly take on the Aussies as if he’s Karna in Kurukshetra, writes Indrajit Hazr... |
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Bluestar was too little too late (08 November 03:38) |
| The real criticism of Bluestar is not that the forces of the Indian State entered the Golden Temple in 1984. The real problem is that they did not go in much earlier and take out Bhindranwal... |
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Agit-prop tourism (08 November 01:17) |
| We at Political Tours Ltd bring you an absolutely unique experience, an amazing once-in-a-lifetime adventure. Manas Chakravarty on the itinerary for the Kolkata political tour. |
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Real security lapses (08 November 01:08) |
| Why did the PM not call on the grieving family? That would have been the proper thing to do, writes Karan Thapar. |
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Microsoft evaporating to a Cloud (07 November 10:05) |
| Call it a case of heated competition but a company once known for its packaged software is evaporating to a cloud quite literally this time, writes Puneet Mehrotra. |
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The size zero carbon footprint (07 November 04:23) |
| Several Indians are waking up to their carbon footprint and looking at it more and more as an individual quest rather than a global issue that ought to be fought on international platforms, ... |
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Paperback reader (07 November 03:14) |
| Weighing the Kindle: Can curling up with an e-book be as much fun as with a book? J Ford Huffman compares... |
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Old fair new ground (07 November 02:19) |
| The annual Dastkar Nature Bazaar is back for the 17th year at a new address. Out of the over-familiar Dilli Haat area, the bazaar is being held at Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts (IGN... |
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Love thy garden (07 November 02:15) |
| For avid gardeners, indoor plants take a backseat in winter. For the next few months, right up to March, Lutyens’s lawns and suburban balconies will be bordered with the likes of Dahlias, ... |
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A courageous leader a visionary (07 November 02:11) |
| Vir Sanghvi in Mrs G force (October 31) has rightly observed that the late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s foreign policy helped our nation to progress. |
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VIP security shouldnt become a headache for the common man (07 November 02:08) |
| The editorial Basic rules of protection (Our Take, November 5) provides the much-needed balanced view on the issue of VIP security. |
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Lose trust lose support (07 November 02:03) |
| The Centre seems to be blowing hot and cold on the Kashmir issue. No sooner than the Prime Minister offered fresh talks with Kashmiri separatists who have nothing to do with violence, a crac... |
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Too little too late (07 November 01:15) |
| Last year, PM Manmohan Singh had identified the Maoists as our biggest security threat. This week he publicly accepted the truth that has been obvious for decades — that Maoism will keep g... |
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Batman forever (07 November 12:44) |
| Tendulkar’s innings showed that the pleasure of watching him bat need not be nostalgia on the rocks, says Soumya Bhattacharya. |
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Three prostrations (06 November 03:11) |
| We surrender our so-called self to the stream of life and look deeply into our nature of interbeing. Every evening in my hermitage in France, before practising sitting meditation, I practice... |
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Poetry and a dash of good luck (06 November 03:07) |
| Union Minister Bijoy Krishna Handique’s friends call him a “good man”. His political opponents say he shirks work. Both agree that controversies don’t hound him: “How can they? If ... |
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End the unjustified violence (06 November 01:47) |
| Rajdeep Sardesai in A homing instinct (Beyond the Byte, October 30) has rightly used his journalistic abilities to throw light on ways to deal with Naxalism. |
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Dissolve Saarc the forum has failed to serve its purpose (06 November 01:41) |
| Lalita Panicker in Let’s face the truth (November 2) rightly pointed out that Saarc has failed to improve the lives of the people of its member-nations. |
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Editor zindabad! (06 November 01:35) |
| Perhaps the word ‘supreme’ will make many suited gents in the media business squirm, as it will remind them why in the first place they rushed in to a space that angels feared to tread. |
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Engagement is not support (06 November 01:30) |
| Chidambaram’s speech at Deoband, in which he drove home the point of the “golden rule of democracy”: the “duty of the majority to protect the minority” is not something that any se... |
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Bittersweet tidings (06 November 01:16) |
| Sugar, to mix one’s metaphors, is heading for a perfect storm. And this is being made because of our own policies, writes Ashok Gulati and Tejinder Narang. |
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Politics of popcorn (06 November 01:08) |
| The questions to ask about a Bollywood film are not whether they are aesthetically good or bad, but how effective they are socially and politically, writes Soumitro Das. |
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India is a critical location for us (06 November 12:40) |
| Honeywell is a Fortune 100 diversified technology and manufacturing leader engaged in developing, designing, and engineering products and solutions ranging from collision avoidance systems f... |
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Envy our enemy (05 November 03:32) |
| When we see someone else having all that we ever wanted to have for ourselves, we feel envious. But we are unaware that by this feeling, we are actually preventing the universe from giving t... |
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Watch what you say Mr Thackeray (05 November 01:58) |
| The report We’ll be more aggressive now (November 2) calls for appropriate action to be taken against Raj Thackeray. |
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Those symbolic gestures (05 November 01:49) |
| Who cares about academic veracity when politicians ransack history? Nayanjot Lahiri elaborates. |
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Science friction (05 November 01:20) |
| Oh these talented, naïve NRIs roaming about the motherland! Don’t they know that when in Rome they should wear their togas tight? |
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Basic rules of protection (05 November 01:18) |
| VIP security must become professional. That means being less callous towards the citizenry |
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We are going to grow aggressively (05 November 12:55) |
| After acquiring Wockhardt Hospitals for Rs 909 crore, Fortis Hospitals is now scouting for more acquisitions in India and abroad. Malvinder Mohan Singh, Group Chairman, Religare and Fortis H... |
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There should be no film censorship Anurag Kashyap (04 November 11:15) |
| Bollywood director Anurag Kashyap feels there should be no film censorship at all. Even as he tries to push the boundaries, he says in India it's not easy to make films criticising real life... |
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Its Greek to us (04 November 01:39) |
| When we heard that Supreme Court judges have finally ‘voluntarily’ put the details of their wealth up on the apex court’s website, the first word that came to our classical heads was ... |
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Pointing the gold finger (04 November 01:34) |
| Our gold reserves are still way below levels central bankers in the West are comfortable with. |
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Unease in the museum (04 November 01:26) |
| For me, the slaughter of 3,000 Indians just because they were Sikh during those days after Indira Gandhi died remains the greatest act of terrorism in our 62 years. Dilip D’Souza examines.... |
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Can we make a car with a bikes DNA (04 November 12:57) |
| Having championed Bajaj Auto’s shift from scooters to motorcycles, and been the force behind the twin successes of the Pulsar and Discover, Rajiv Bajaj told Hindustan Times that he i... |
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Looking into nature (04 November 12:56) |
| Our quest for understanding the mysteries of nature would lose its worth if conducted in a manner that’s not in harmony with nature, writes Raj Gandhi. |
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Flashes in the pan (04 November 12:49) |
| Priorities have drastically changed for cricketers today. Which is why we won’t be seeing the 100-Test cricketer again, writes Anand Vasu. |
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Aladin was a loser (03 November 09:18) |
| ...Though he had a Genie, says Riteish Deshmukh. He is a loser who gets bullied, can’t stand up for himself and can’t tell a girl that he loves her. So, even if I am Aladin, he remains a... |
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The best-selling sports Jerseys (03 November 05:41) |
| It's no contest--NFL quarterbacks dominate the field. Tom Van Riper reports. |
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Whats That Brand Doing in My Show (03 November 04:53) |
| Product placement is old hat. Try weaving Windows 7 into the plot of ''Family Guy'' or Bud Light into an SNL sketch. |
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Insider leaks can be good data for investors (03 November 01:37) |
| The recent case in the US of prominent hedge fund manager R Rajaratnam has put the spotlight on insider trading. Rajaratnam, who apparently knew the who’s who of the tech industry in the U... |
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Rates are a factor of cost of funds (03 November 01:16) |
| Having completed six months as the head of India’s second largest bank, Chanda Kochhar, MD and CEO, ICICI Bank, spoke to Hindustan Times about her tenure and the challenges ahead for the b... |
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Its back to square one (03 November 01:02) |
| In a broad sense, the presidential elections reflect the failure of the non-Taliban and non-Islamicist Afghan leadership to find a power-sharing formula among them. |
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Praise be upon her (03 November 12:59) |
| Queen Elizabeth II in a burqa? The 26/11 attack in Mumbai not a terror act? UK nutters ahoy! |
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One-point agenda (03 November 12:54) |
| There will be no peace in Afghanistan as long as the US views it as a transit route for oil from West Asia and uses the military to further those interests, writes Sitaram Yechury. |
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Some curdled logic (02 November 01:53) |
| There’s a link between climate change, productivity of milk and India’s Commonwealth medal prospects. |
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