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Hellelujah Its Straining Men (22 October 12:00) |
| There seems to be no end to the self-flagellation of men. It is so persistent that that we may have to replace 'masochism' with 'manochism'. |
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What SRK should learn from Kalam (23 August 02:13) |
| A celebrity is blessed with good fortune in many ways. A reporter, for instance, has to search for news. |
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To kill a tree (10 July 12:00) |
| The tree was young and strong and it took a long time to kill. It took two workmen with axes two days, including tea breaks.
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You NREGA, You FBT (09 July 12:00) |
| Listening to Pronab Babu, i wasn't able to make out if i'd be richer/poorer/neither. I was too busy trying to figure out all those groups of initials which kept streaming across the ticker. |
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You NREGA You FBT (09 July 12:00) |
| Listening to Pronab Babu i wasnt able to make out if id be richerpoorerneither I was too busy trying to figure out all those groups of initials which kept streaming across the ticker |
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Hygiene on tap (06 July 12:00) |
| What's the greatest invention India's ever come up with? The zero? IPL? The Nehru-Gandhi Family? All legitimate and worthy candidates for being called India's greatest invention. |
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Does justice matter after 17 years? (05 July 12:59) |
| Democracy is a volatile game played in the open. What was there left to inquire into?
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M J Akbar: Does justice matter after 17 years? (05 July 12:59) |
| Democracy is a volatile game played in the open. What was there left to inquire into?
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M J Akbar Does justice matter after 17 years (05 July 12:59) |
| Democracy is a volatile game played in the open What was there left to inquire into
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Does justice matter after 17 years (05 July 12:59) |
| Democracy is a volatile game played in the open What was there left to inquire into
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A truth nobody will ever admit (05 July 12:46) |
| The long campaign for a grand Ram temple on the site of the 16th century Babri Masjid in Ayodhya was, at a very basic level, an issue of faith.
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S Dasgupta: A truth nobody will ever admit (05 July 12:46) |
| The long campaign for a grand Ram temple on the site of the 16th century Babri Masjid in Ayodhya was, at a very basic level, an issue of faith.
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S Dasgupta A truth nobody will ever admit (05 July 12:46) |
| The long campaign for a grand Ram temple on the site of the 16th century Babri Masjid in Ayodhya was at a very basic level an issue of faith
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Temples of Boom (01 July 08:15) |
| Mumbai opened its pioneering sea link the day Judge Liberhan closed his inquiry into the Babri masjid's demolition. |
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Rum deal (29 June 12:00) |
| Ram Prasad, popularly known among his clientele as Rum Prasad, was a part-time bootlegger in Calcutta who specialised in police rum.
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The secret life of foreign secretaries (28 June 12:24) |
| Secret extra-terrestrial sources, with reliable knowledge of the future, have revealed the full text of the dialogue between the Indian Foreign Secretary and the Pakistan Foreign Secretary. |
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Santosh Desai: Accelerating change: No easy way out (22 June 08:10) |
| Change will not occur with the speed and thoroughness that is deemed ideal unless we accelerate the process through forceful and specific interventions.
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Santosh Desai Accelerating change No easy way out (22 June 08:10) |
| Change will not occur with the speed and thoroughness that is deemed ideal unless we accelerate the process through forceful and specific interventions
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Vinita Nangia: When did you last really look? (21 June 02:07) |
| God they say is in the detail and he who has mastered the art of focusing on the minutest details, has mastered the art of blocking out the unpleasant... |
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Vinita Nangia When did you last really look (21 June 02:07) |
| God they say is in the detail and he who has mastered the art of focusing on the minutest details has mastered the art of blocking out the unpleasant |
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West Bengal: Next time, the volcano (21 June 12:47) |
| The Left emerged out of the chaos and violence that fractured Bengal; as it dissipates, will the vacuum be filled by violence? It is tempting to see the immediate future as a mirror image, w... |
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M J Akbar: Next time, the volcano (21 June 12:47) |
| The Left emerged out of the chaos and violence that fractured Bengal; as it dissipates, will the vacuum be filled by violence? It is tempting to see the immediate future as a mirror image, w... |
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M J Akbar Next time the volcano (21 June 12:47) |
| The Left emerged out of the chaos and violence that fractured Bengal as it dissipates will the vacuum be filled by violence It is tempting to see the immediate future as a mirror image with ... |
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Why the twitter-bugs can't change Iran's regime (21 June 12:41) |
| It is possible the angry young men and well-dressed women in Victoria Beckham sunglasses in Tehran - the only place where Mousavi outpolled Ahmadinejad - have different ideas.
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S Dasgupta: Why the twitter-bugs can't change Iran's regime (21 June 12:41) |
| It is possible the angry young men and well-dressed women in Victoria Beckham sunglasses in Tehran - the only place where Mousavi outpolled Ahmadinejad - have different ideas.
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S Dasgupta Why the twitter-bugs cant change Irans regime (21 June 12:41) |
| It is possible the angry young men and well-dressed women in Victoria Beckham sunglasses in Tehran - the only place where Mousavi outpolled Ahmadinejad - have different ideas
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S A Aiyar: Killing me softly with your beedis (21 June 12:36) |
| Why have finance ministers over the years not done this? Because the beedi is the poor man's smoke, and the beedi industry employs millions. Yet, these are horrifying, cruel reasons for tax ... |
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S A Aiyar Killing me softly with your beedis (21 June 12:36) |
| Why have finance ministers over the years not done this Because the beedi is the poor mans smoke and the beedi industry employs millions Yet these are horrifying cruel reasons for tax conces... |
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Suit yourself (20 June 12:00) |
| The other day I regretfully turned down an invitation to a get-together. The reason? The postscript tagged on at the bottom of the invitation card Dress: Lounge Suit. |
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Shiney saga: Rape as national entertainment (18 June 11:49) |
| Mumbai should slap an entertainment tax surcharge on the rest of India. Whether from box office or botox office, its celebrities have been working overtime to serve an important social agend... |
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MJ Akbar: The US advice on Kashmir is lunacy (14 June 12:38) |
| There is nothing particularly new about the proposal of an interim balm for the wounds of Kashmir, demilitarization on both sides of the Line of Control. What is novel is the heavy Washingto... |
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The US advice on Kashmir is lunacy (14 June 12:38) |
| There is nothing particularly new about the proposal of an interim balm for the wounds of Kashmir, demilitarization on both sides of the Line of Control. What is novel is the heavy Washingto... |
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MJ Akbar The US advice on Kashmir is lunacy (14 June 12:38) |
| There is nothing particularly new about the proposal of an interim balm for the wounds of Kashmir demilitarization on both sides of the Line of Control What is novel is the heavy Washington ... |
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SA Aiyar: An open letter to Kapil Sibal (14 June 12:31) |
| Kapil Sibal, your new government is committed to affirmative action for the historically disadvantaged. This can be an excellent launching pad for school vouchers.
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SA Aiyar An open letter to Kapil Sibal (14 June 12:31) |
| Kapil Sibal your new government is committed to affirmative action for the historically disadvantaged This can be an excellent launching pad for school vouchers
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Shobha De: Why Sheetal and Kalavati are women on top (14 June 12:24) |
| Both ladies are media savvy — they have perfected their sound bites. Their lives are not all that dissimilar — they make headlines for the wrong reasons.
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Shobha De Why Sheetal and Kalavati are women on top (14 June 12:24) |
| Both ladies are media savvy €” they have perfected their sound bites Their lives are not all that dissimilar €” they make headlines for the wrong reasons
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Talking back (13 June 12:00) |
| Forget swine flu, or World Cup-itis. The real pandemic doing the rounds these days is backache, in its myriad manifestations. Everyone's got a bad back. |
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The business of fear (12 June 07:07) |
| Did the person next to you sneeze? Could he have swine flu? Can he give it to you? With WHO having declared it to be a pandemic, swine flu has added to the sum of all our fears. |
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The world is flattery (11 June 12:23) |
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The amaltas's secret (10 June 11:11) |
| I watch the amaltas outside my window. I try to describe the tree in words. But the more I try, the more the beauty of the tree escapes my attempts. |
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Bobilli Vijay Kumar: Federer awaits tryst with destiny (07 June 01:27) |
| Federer, probably nudged by his own providence, sensed his opportunity: he woke up from his sleepwalk and began playing like himself again; inside-out forehands, down the line backhands and ... |
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Bobilli Vijay Kumar Federer awaits tryst with destiny (07 June 01:27) |
| Federer probably nudged by his own providence sensed his opportunity he woke up from his sleepwalk and began playing like himself again inside-out forehands down the line backhands and tanta... |
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Vinita Nangia: O-zone: Dear Betty (07 June 01:23) |
| As Archie Andrews gears up to propose to Veronica Lodge, here is a heartfelt letter to Betty Cooper... |
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Vinita Nangia O-zone Dear Betty (07 June 01:23) |
| As Archie Andrews gears up to propose to Veronica Lodge here is a heartfelt letter to Betty Cooper |
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Swapan Dasgupta: Don't tar all of Australia as racist (07 June 12:34) |
| The feeling of cultural superiority that coexisted with the exercise of power in the pre-World War II era has yielded place to a new moral relativism. |
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Don't tar all of Australia as racist (07 June 12:34) |
| The feeling of cultural superiority that coexisted with the exercise of power in the pre-World War II era has yielded place to a new moral relativism. |
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Swapan Dasgupta Dont tar all of Australia as racist (07 June 12:34) |
| The feeling of cultural superiority that coexisted with the exercise of power in the pre-World War II era has yielded place to a new moral relativism |
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S A Aiyar: India is now flooded with $1 billion per week (07 June 12:30) |
| After six months of financial drought, global money is flooding into India at the rate of $1 billion a week. If sustained, this will be the mother of all financial stimuli, eclipsing the fin... |
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S A Aiyar India is now flooded with $1 billion per week (07 June 12:30) |
| After six months of financial drought global money is flooding into India at the rate of $1 billion a week If sustained this will be the mother of all financial stimuli eclipsing the finance... |
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