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New Delhi, Sunday May 19 2013
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...
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New Delhi, Sunday May 19 2013
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...
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New Delhi, Sunday May 19 2013
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...
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New Delhi, Sunday May 19 2013
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...
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New Delhi, Sunday May 19 2013
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...
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New Delhi, Sunday May 19 2013
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...
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New Delhi, Sunday May 19 2013
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 ...
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New Delhi, Sunday May 19 2013
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...
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New Delhi, Sunday May 19 2013
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...
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New Delhi, Sunday May 19 2013
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...
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New Delhi, Sunday May 19 2013
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...
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New Delhi, Sunday May 19 2013
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...
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New Delhi, Sunday May 12 2013
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...
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New Delhi, Sunday May 12 2013
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...
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