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| Catch
me if you can |
| As a drug peddler and a gun-runner
in Mumbai, Gregory David Roberts lived life on the knife’s edge. And Shantaram,
his novel set for release in June in India, doesn’t flinch from telling the truth.
Avijit Ghosh reports |
| When you live in a junkie’s
hell called heroin, rob enough banks to become your country’s most wanted outlaw,
and finally, as a fugitive take to gun-running and hobnobbing with hitmen in a
foreign land, in this case India, chances are you may not live... |
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| Reign of tyranny |
| “The subjects treated are partly scientific, literary, artistical (sic), scriptural, historical, natural and fictitious… t
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| One
size doesn’t fit all |
| Forty years ago, when Marianne Legato had joined the heart surgery unit of New York Presbyterian Hospital, she’d wondered why doctors attending heart attacks in the emergency room had an obvious male bias. Although she was just a rookie in the ER, sh... |
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| Last
Word: Mother India? |
| She’s “nothing more than the mother of two children”. She is the “mother of the nation”. She’s a blackfaced widow, who will bring bad luck to the nation. She’s the inheritor of her late husband’s legacy. She’s India’s bahu. No, she’s a foreign... |
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| ASH COLOURED: Aishwarya Rai’s poster in Cannes |
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