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Fun in the games

Player in the House Gary Fernandes, 28 DJ Gary Fernandes does not like cricket. In fact, he deplores it. Even a ringside view of all the IPL matches held in Mumbai in the last five years has not chan......read more

Questions on Campus

The sharp division in Delhi University over a new academic programme leaves aspiring students from across the country confused Six months ago, Mandakini Gupta, a student of Delhi Public School, told h......read more

Stranger Truths

The 1969 literary hoax that became a bestseller Richard Nixon, Jumbo jet, Concorde, Apollo 11, Woodstock, the Manson Family rampage, colour TV, Unix, Led Zeppelin, Monty Python, Butch Cassidy, Midnigh......read more

A Life Less Hackable

I love contemplating productivity solutions, but never get around to applying any Like everyone else, the more chaos my life is pitched into, the more I seek out visions of calm and control. As we pre......read more

Revolutionary Notes

How Beygairat Brigade used the online space to create political rock ‘n’ roll in Pakistan It was after midnight when three boys from Lahore uploaded a three-minute song on YouTube titled Aalu anday in......read more

‘I don’t like being mature and responsible’

With three major films — Lootera, Ram Leela and Gunday up for release, are you happy with the way your career's shaped up? I think so. Lootera is poetic, Ram Leela is intense with mainstream sensibil......read more

Pecking Order

Following the Supreme Court’s censure of the Central Bureau of Investigation for being a “caged parrot” and echoing “its master’s voice” in the coal scam report, Ranjit Lal imagines the repercussions ......read more

Learning to be Free

Thirteen-year-old Minon, who won the National Award for the best child actor this year, on the unusual decisions that have shaped his life In the Malayalam film 101 Chodyangal (101 Questions), the pro......read more

Picking up the Threads

Doosra Aadmi starts where most Hindi movies end Kanu (Rishi Kapoor) and Timsi (Neetu Singh) are the prime examples of khullam khulla pyaar karenge love birds. They defy everyone, marry in haste and ho......read more

Raag Kirwani on Android

Indian classical music is now on your fingertips, thanks to a smartphone app It is 9 am and Bangalore is engulfed in the drone of a workday traffic. Negotiating his way through the chaos, Anirudh R, a......read more

All Rounder

Intel finally enters the tablet segment with the Asus Fonepad By the time Intel decided to step into the tablets segment, most mobile devices already use Apple, Qualcomm or MediaTek processors. But th......read more

Torch Bearer

An elderly widow cremates corpses every day in Dehradun Everyone knows Lalita in Dehradun, and will easily give you her address: “Lalita, Lakhibagh Cremation Ground”. This is no ordinary address, even......read more

Telly Me the Future

The most popular astrologers on news television and their turf wars. If there’s anything that can stop you dead in your tracks while surfing TV channels, it is the 56-year-old Acharya Indu Prakash Mis......read more

Hole in One

How 12-year-old Ranveer Saini overcame autism to emerge a winner at the recent Asia Pacific Special Olympics Golf Masters. In one corner of a classroom at Scottish High International in Gurgaon, Ranve......read more