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'They're suspicious of my success' (11 May 01:37) |
| Film-maker Manoj Night Shyamalan slams his critics in an interview with Joeanna Rebello. |
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The young and the restless (11 May 01:37) |
| Offbeat and creative professions are supposed to be more ‘fun' than the stolid medicine-engineering-management beat. But the attention span of many Gen X-ers is too short even for these. |
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A 'man' called Nandini (11 May 01:37) |
| A fascinating encounter with a wealthy eunuch who lives and works in Chennai's orthodox society. |
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'I am only scared of God' (11 May 01:37) |
| The Great Khali, WWE's only Indian wrestler, lives to tell the tale |
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The great 1857 fiasco (11 May 01:37) |
| The plans were lofty, the end result zilch. On Saturday, the curtain came down on the government's year-long 1857 celebrations with nothing to show for it. |
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Witness for the prosecution (11 May 01:37) |
| Some were clueless, others canny, fearful or flamboyant. Jyoti Punwani on the witnesses who testified in the 1992-'93 Mumbai riots cases. |
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'Naipaul is rude but straightforward' (04 May 04:01) |
| British writer Patrick French authorised biography of V S Naipaul has shocked the world with his revelations of how shabbily Naipaul treated the women in his life.
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The Poop Paper Chase (04 May 04:01) |
| This entrepreneur duo saw an opportunity in an elephant's bad digestive system.
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Where have all the Chinese gone? (04 May 04:01) |
| Joeanna Rebello seeks out the virtuoso hairdressers who once gave Bombay girls their mushroom and duck's bum cuts.
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'I'm a true Gandhian' (04 May 04:01) |
| Kamal Haasan has the distinction of being the only actor in Tamil Nadu whom Rajnikant secretly envies and openly admires.
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An area of darkness... (04 May 04:01) |
| ...will soon spring to light, thanks to development projects in Kashmir's villages.
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Have Money, Won't Donate (04 May 04:01) |
| Why are wealthy Indians so short on philanthropy?
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What Tibetans Do In Leh (27 April 10:25) |
| Tibetan refugees in Leh were once hungry and impoverished. Now their condition is better. But they bear a quiet sadness of living in hope.
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Art of the 'Criminal Tribe' (27 April 10:25) |
| One of the tribes that the government calls 'born criminals' is battling the insult through total drama.
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Sex And The Classroom (27 April 10:25) |
| Considering the realities of Indian classrooms today, the recent uproar of Maharashtra's MLAs against the state government's plans to introduce sex education in schools is based on an obsole... |
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Encounter With A Dreaded Man (27 April 10:25) |
| Mohammed Wajihuddin remembers a meeting with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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About a Jailed Doctor (27 April 10:25) |
| Anand Patwardhan profiles Binayak Sen, a reformist doctor who is in prison on charges of being a Naxalite.
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A Feminist's Worst Nightmare (20 April 01:40) |
| Andrabi founded a notorious moral police in Kashmir. Its members once sprayed paint on unveiled women.
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Memories of a Naxalite Friend (20 April 01:40) |
| Jyoti Punwani remembers a pretty girl who suddenly left the good life of urban communists to fight the government.
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Why Sir Salman Cannot Write A Novel (20 April 01:40) |
| Farrukh Dhondy argues that Salman Rushdie is not a novelist.
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Did the Snake Bite Srinivasan Symmetrically? (13 April 07:41) |
| A man dies of snakebite. The insurance company finds a loophole. The snake is an acquaintance. |
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Why The Pizza Comes When You Call (13 April 07:41) |
| Needless to say, pizza has influenced Mumbai deeply. |
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Is India Poor Because It is Dumb? (13 April 07:41) |
| One of the many problems with IQ tests is that they measure a correlative of intelligence, and are often tough to test across cultures. |
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Beautiful World of the Backbenchers (13 April 07:41) |
| A far greater injustice than reservation is the derogatory mindset of Indians that overrates maths, physics and chemistry. |
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Return of the Enchanter (13 April 07:41) |
| The Enchantress of Florence has been variously described as fantasia, a love story, and a ribald adventure filled with more sexual tittle-tattle than all of Rushdie's works put together. |
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Free Tibet. And what about Kashmir? (13 April 05:32) |
| 'The problem of J&K is the elephant in the room which Indians debating Tibet are doing their darndest to ignore. There is just no public or political pressure to resolve it.'
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Zimbabwe When Sehwag's Food Bill Was Just $150,000 (06 April 07:36) |
| Everybody is a billionaire in Zimbabwe today. As its currency plunges so low that the government has issued a $10 million note, which can fetch two toilet rolls, Manu Joseph remembers passin... |
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A Crop Called Suicide (06 April 05:33) |
| Not all recorded farmer suicides in Vidarbha are suicides. Some of the dead are not even farmers. And some have died due to love, not debt. But their families have claimed government relief.... |
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Cross-dressing for the Goddess (06 April 03:29) |
| During a festival in Kerala, regular men dress up as women to please the deity.
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Revenge of the Native (06 April 03:29) |
| Indians have invented hilarious ways to settle scores with foreigners who insult them
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A Beautiful Accused (06 April 03:29) |
| Sharmila Ganesan profiles a valiant social worker who was arrested on charges of abusing a tribal.
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How Do You Get To Cannes? (06 April 03:29) |
| Farrukh Dhondy answers a deep question.
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The Great Research Bull (30 March 03:55) |
| Personality traits of Kho-Kho players, hairy roots of apples, poets who wear silk, are among the research topics of PhD aspirants. |
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The Secrets of Hawkers (30 March 03:55) |
| Is the crowd of buyers around a hawker real? Why does a lemon vendor yell out a whole recipe?
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Memories of a Boyfriend (30 March 03:55) |
| It is sad but not surprising that many North Indians have not heard of the gifted Tamil actor, Raghuvaran who died last week.
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The Monk Who Sold A Story (30 March 03:55) |
| The Tibetans skillfully supply the media with gory tales and images of Chinese aggression whose authenticity cannot be verified independently.
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Fate of the English Play (30 March 03:55) |
| Theatre director Rahul da Cunha on the enchanting nervousness before the big night.
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When Stars Moonlight (30 March 03:55) |
| Dancing to a live audience has become so obscenely lucrative today that film stars know the embarrassment is worth it.
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The Rogue Sociologist (23 March 03:40) |
| A man who hung out with cocaine peddlers in Chicago for his PhD discovered that a gang is, in a way, run like a company.
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In Pursuit of Mohandas (23 March 03:40) |
| IITian Mazhar Kamran, cinematographer of Satya, on how he escaped the fate of becoming a techie in America, and how he transformed instead into a film director.
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Madam Can Read a Balance Sheet (23 March 03:40) |
| A group of rich housewives have come together to understand things like GDP, IPO and rupee appreciation.
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Tale Of Two Curses (23 March 03:40) |
| Every time a hockey debacle hits India, two curses come to mind. One curse local, the other international.
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A Donkey's Suicide (23 March 03:40) |
| Donkeys in Sudan are so miserable, they end their own lives. Can animals really do that?
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Of Sex and Politics (23 March 03:40) |
| An incorrigible French cartoonist searches for his place in a world that is not shocked by sex anymore.
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How To Die Beneath a Tree (23 March 03:40) |
| What happens if you are a tribal widow.
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Last Men Standing (16 March 03:32) |
| Time kills. The cultures of a whole age are vanquished by the merciless surge of modernity. Professions of beautiful old minds disappear. Dialects die. But some residues do remain. |
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Destination Oshiwara (16 March 03:32) |
| A building is visited, where a thousand Bollywood strugglers descend every day in search of fame. |
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Of Holi and (16 March 03:32) |
| Holi, suddenly, is about hot incest. |
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Surviving Bai (16 March 03:32) |
| A maid who drinks wine, another who laughs at her master's tiny television. |
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Return of the Writer (16 March 03:32) |
| The co-writer of Black, Bhavani Iyer, says that the wronged scriptwriter is finally fighting back. |
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