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| Man who has seen three centuries |
| He is as old as Gandhi would have been today. And he too has a message for the nation. Habib Miyan may be 136 years old but he sure is one heck of a posterboy for AIDS awareness. G.S. MUDUR reports |
| Frankly, for a man tasked with preaching safe sex, Habib Miyan tells stories that are particularly raunchy. It’s a sweltering summer afternoon, and India’s longest surviving centenarian ' by one count he is as old as 136 ' is counting beads... | Read.. |
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| Sunrise over tide country |
| For Niranjan Giri, life ebbs and flows with the rhythms of the tide country. Giri is a boatman in the Sundarbans, the generic ... | Read.. |
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| An eye for an eye |
| When Aishwarya Rai finally met Kiranjit Ahluwalia, the Sikh woman she is portraying in the film, Provoked, the two women hugged each other. The director, Jagmohan Mundhra, had deliberately kept Aishwarya away from Kiranjit until the shoot was ... | Read.. |
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| Get in the ring |
| In the film Million-Dollar Baby, Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris says of bloodsport: “If there’s magic in boxing, it’s the magic of fighting battles beyond endurance... | Read.. |
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