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Google in a box? Just an out-of-the-box idea

Sunday 22 November '09

Pranali Kalbhor stands on her toes and peers into the little box outside her father’s kirana store....
The French windows are wide open

Friday 20 November '09

To be French, you must wear a beret and carry a baguette at all times. France is in the midst of a raging debate...
The French Windows Are Wide Open

Thursday 19 November '09

To be French, you must wear a beret and carry a baguette at all times. France is in the midst of a raging debate — initiated by Eric Bensson, France’s minister of national identity...
French Connection Wide Open

Thursday 19 November '09

To be French, you must wear a beret and carry a baguette at all times. France is in the midst of a raging debate—initiated by Eric Bensson, France’s minister of national identity...
What the world is reading

Tuesday 10 November '09

When Colombian druglord Pablo Escobar was gunned down in 1993, his teenaged son Juan Pablo declared: “If it’s true, I’ll kill all the sons of bitches.”
Edwina-Nehru relationship ‘mostly platonic’, not always: French author

Monday 9 November '09

Catherine Clement, French philosopher, feminist and the author of Edwina and Nehru, says Congress president Sonia Gandhi was not “shocked at all” with Clement’s novel in 1993....
A fight for life and death with dignity

Friday 30 October '09

In India, the world’s highest producer of legal opium — from which morphine is made — lakhs spend their last days in pain....
Girls at the front

Sunday 20 September '09

The first batch of BSF women constables has taken up position along Punjab’s border with Pakistan. The Sunday Express...
reporting from africa

Saturday 5 September '09

not untrue & not unkind Ed O’Loughlin Penguin, Pages: 276, 16.99 pounds
Changing course

Sunday 19 July '09

BY now, the Yamuna has seen it all—toxic slush from factories, offerings that come cruising down in plastic bags...
Riding the tiger

Sunday 21 June '09

For 19 years, Varatharaja Perumal, an anti-LTTE Lankan Tamil leader, has lived in political asylum in India, running from the LTTE’s hit squads.
Diary of EVM No. Chhattis

Sunday 10 May '09

Let’s call it ‘Chhattis’. That’s 36 in Hindi. Electronic Voting Machines don’t have names, only unwieldy identification numbers.
THE GOOD EARTH CLUB

Sunday 3 May '09

They take off on eco-caravans, cycle for change and represent India at climate meets. They are the young men and women who are taking the lead in whipping up opinion and lobbying the government into acting—fast.
Journalist vs politician, journalism vs stenography

Tuesday 14 April '09

At the awards ceremony, journalists turn light inwards - with help from some politicians
The anatomy of an uprising

Tuesday 10 March '09

Since the 1950 ‘Chinese invasion of Tibet’ (as the Tibetans call it) or the ‘Peaceful Liberation of Tibet’ (as the Chinese define it), the area has been under the Communist Party of China.....
An Open Web

Sunday 8 February '09

Madhu Trehan’s documentation of the Tehelka sting is valuable in more ways than one
Chota, Jayrami, Kani... 12 new frogs discovered in Western Ghats

Wednesday 4 February '09

Published in Zoological Journal of Linnean Society; first report of 12 frog species in a single issue
Being Parsi

Sunday 18 January '09

Parsi kaun? Fire tempil? Aag lagi hain? Aap kuch theek nahi bata rahein hain,” said the guard at Maulana Abdul Medical College on Delhi’s Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg.
Kerala searches for 'Mallus,' Bengal for IPL, India for Railways

Thursday 1 January '09

The zeitgeist list of how the world, and India’s states, used Google search in the year gone by.
Madam Politician

Tuesday 30 December '08

This year saw more women in politics worldwide than perhaps ever before. The two top draws were Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin, who captured the world’s attention with their candidacies in the US presidential election
Raging epidemic

Tuesday 16 December '08

Vibrio cholerae is back. WHO data released last week said 775 people had died of cholera and 16,141 had taken ill in Zimbabwe.
TV: The big picture

Monday 8 December '08

Zaid Hamid, ‘security consultant and strategic defence analyst’, is a fixture on this channel...
‘If you’re tired of india, you’re tired of life’

Sunday 16 November '08

Michael Wood is the writer and presenter of many acclaimed TV series. His The Story of India has been a hit worldwide and is now on Discovery India.
What the world is reading about...

Monday 27 October '08

The Sun has a little problem, they say. No, it's not turning red with envy - with the moon getting all the attention - but it's turning into a bloated red giant all the same.
THE GREAT DEPRESSION

Monday 13 October '08

A worldwide economic downturn that began on Black Thursday in 1929 in the US and had a ripple effect throughout the world.
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