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Welcome to the pressure-cooked novel (02 November 01:56) |
| Joeanna Rebello checks out an offbeat endeavour centered around the philosophy that creative writing is too much fun to leave to the professionals. |
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No charity please, we're broke (02 November 01:56) |
| Ketan Tanna on how the economic meltdown is hurting NGOs dependent on corporate funding. |
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Rafi to Reshammiya, sublime to ridiculous (02 November 01:56) |
| Meena Iyer meets Amod Mehra, whose music collection includes every Hindi film song recorded from 1950 onwards, and then some more. |
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Cry freedom (02 November 01:56) |
| Mohammed Wajihuddin talks to Pakistani human rights activist Ansar Burney who's helped release over 700,000 prisoners. |
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No charity please were broke (02 November 12:13) |
| Ketan Tanna on how the economic meltdown is hurting NGOs dependent on corporate funding |
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Rafi to Reshammiya sublime to ridiculous (02 November 12:11) |
| Meena Iyer meets Amod Mehra whose music collection includes every Hindi film song recorded from 1950 onwards and then some more |
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How to shoot a politician (26 October 03:48) |
| Men whose tough job involves making a posterboy of a neta.
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Defanging the Indian MCP (26 October 03:48) |
| A progressive UGC-financed programme trains boys to cook, clean, respect women and spread the gospel of gender equality. |
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Torchbearer of change (26 October 03:48) |
| The Asian University for Women (AUW) in Chittagong was inaugurated on October 18 at a glittering function at Dhaka's stone Bangladesh-China Friendship Centre. |
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Show me the funny (26 October 03:48) |
| Laugh with Canadian comedian Russell Peters who performs in Mumbai tomorrow.
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A non-actor prepares (26 October 03:48) |
| Himesh Reshammiya, Farhan Akhtar, Karan Johar... Half of Bollywood now wants to be in front of the camera.
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Gilli danda versus Gameboy (26 October 03:48) |
| The boys played everything from lagori, where two teams have to unheap a bunch of flat stones piled atop one another, to gilli danda, which is played with two wooden sticks. |
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Brevity, the new flavour (26 October 03:48) |
| In a country obsessed with Bollywood, why are television channels looking for short films? TRPs or hara-kiri.
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Brevity the new flavour (26 October 02:24) |
| In a country obsessed with Bollywood why are television channels looking for short films TRPs or hara-kiri
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The novel in a speech balloon (19 October 02:01) |
| Graphic novels have risen on the popularity barometer, with mainstream publishers lapping up any story thrown their way.
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Praying is not enough (19 October 02:01) |
| As the saffron inquisition continues to assault the Christians from without, the tremors have roiled the ancient status quo within.
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Challenging the big fat Oligarchy (19 October 02:01) |
| Small films by unknown film-makers are outdoing the monster movies at the box-office. |
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Notes from the interiors (19 October 02:01) |
| Isn't it surprising that little known performers have audiences in more provincial cities? Thanks to the internet, residents of small towns and cities are up to date on new artists and trend... |
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Going beyond the raddiwala (19 October 02:01) |
| The Freecycle Network, an innovative way of saving the planet, is now in India. |
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A politician's avenger, an MLA's keep... (19 October 02:01) |
| ...and many other stories that make up Jantar Mantar, India's official protest zone. |
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Kill a dacoit, get a promotion (19 October 02:01) |
| As the Madhya Pradesh police surrounded Chambal dacoit Pratap Gadaria in the Kanerkho-Amkho forest on a spring morning in 2007, they had little idea that a bloody chapter of bounty-hunting w... |
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Glitches behind the glitz (12 October 03:56) |
| The secret is out: film corporates are losing vast amounts of money on all the junk being produced.
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This Qazi is a woman (12 October 03:56) |
| Meet activist Syeda Hameed who defied the Muslim clergy to solemnise a marriage recently.
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On the other side of the firing line (12 October 03:56) |
| Chhattisgarh DGP Vishwa Ranjan had to face tough questions about human rights violations at a conference at UC Berkeley.
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Threat from the Net (12 October 03:56) |
| On the concluding day of Mental Health week, a look at the alarming sites and online games that are messing up kids' minds and lives.
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Ode to a tree (12 October 03:56) |
| Sulking, pleading, making up... these were all an integral part of breezy romances, and none of the songs would have been quite the same without the backdrop of the great outdoors.
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'Today's terrorist is a sociopath' (12 October 03:56) |
| Colonel K D Pathak, who commanded the cabinet secretariat's first counter-terror unit speaks...
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Cryptic passions (12 October 03:56) |
| Limca Book record-holder who's collected 4,00,000 crossword puzzles and solved 1,29,462 of them.
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A great creative silence (05 October 01:51) |
| Why writers, artists and intellectuals are moving en masse to Goa. |
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A sea of tears (05 October 01:51) |
| Visit to a village where 120 women await the return of their husbands from Pakistani jails.
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Of nude scenes and dogs (05 October 01:51) |
| A day spent in LA with John Travolta, Jim Carrey, Johnny Depp and Sandra Bullock at the Walt Disney Co do. |
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Rioters are people like us (05 October 01:51) |
| It’s not just political party goons who throng the streets to throw stones and burn buses. Many ordinary people do too... to regret it later.
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Playing for the Don (05 October 01:51) |
| A meeting rock bands who’ve had to do all manner of things to survive.
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An accidental Indian (05 October 01:51) |
| Wondering what the definition of an IWE (Indian Writer in English) should really be.
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In their own write (05 October 01:51) |
| Times Review ferrets out some of the last handwritten newspapers in the country. |
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Portrait of the Mahatma as a young man (28 September 03:44) |
| Vikram Doctor walks the streets of South Africa in search of a Gandhi India never knew.
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Tum na jaane kis jahaan mein kho gaye (28 September 03:44) |
| As Lata Mangeshkar steps into her 80th year, Hrishi Dixit tracks down some of her forgotten gems.
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Jab (28 September 03:44) |
| Mohammed Wajihuddin mourns the death of India's national language in Bollywood.
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Argentine tango in Mumbai (28 September 03:44) |
| Pronoti Datta meets expats who're making a mark on India's cultural scene.
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Lions in Winter (28 September 03:44) |
| Past 70, one made her acting debut, another got married, yet another learnt to scuba-dive. Sharmila Ganesan profiles youthful seniors on the occasion of World Elder's Day next week. |
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The testimony of one Christian (28 September 03:44) |
| Former supercop Julio Ribeiro reacts to the communal killings in Orissa.
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Abstinence Army (28 September 03:44) |
| Madhavi Rajadhyaksha meets a bunch of gutsy women who braved all odds, including a murder, to banish booze from their village.
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Sick of being single? (21 September 03:47) |
| But where are all the men, asks Ramya Sarma.
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Let them eat cake (21 September 03:47) |
| Anirban Bose, a Have, who lives in a gated complex with a pool, wonders if the guillotine blade is being sharpened.
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Bathroom breaks and other leaks (21 September 03:47) |
| A profile of a TV chat show host who revels in making his guests stomp off in a huff
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Limping on after (21 September 03:47) |
| Rock bands in India have more attitude than fans.
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Dear Wife, feed the cows well (21 September 03:47) |
| The plight of the letter writers of Mumbai is nothing to write home about.
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Speak, Memory (21 September 03:47) |
| Ketan Tanna speaks to the man whose lie-detector technology is so loved by the police.
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Chikna Jailbirds (14 September 04:06) |
| They may have the looks but most of them are unbelievably dumb, says Kartikeya of the new breed of criminal
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Moong beans at CERN (14 September 04:06) |
| The seeds of the Big Bang experiment had just been sown when Ramya Sarma was a CERNite's daughter |
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