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| What does your bucket list read like |
| One theory has it that “to kick the bucket” originates from the idea that people hanged themselves by standing on a bucket with a noose around their neck, then kicked the bucket away. Which raises the question that if you had to hang yourself to death, would you trust a bucket? Another theory says that bucket didn’t mean bucket at all, but in Shakespeare’s days meant a beam. It cites Henry IV Part II: “Swifter then he that gibbets on the Brewers Bucket.” So it also means that Shakespeare is no longer relevant. And that “kicking the bucket” has expanded its meaning a great deal. It now means “to die”, in general. Everyone, then, has a bucket waiting for him at the end, plastic, aluminium or metaphysical. |
| But a bucket list? We mean the number of things that you would love to do... |
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| Bollywood |
| It’s his life |
| After a hat-trick of hits — No Entry, Welcome, Singh Is Kinng — director Anees Bazmee is already busy shooting his next It
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| Star-unstruck! |
| He swings from one building to the next, extracting from New York City any and all threats that may captivate the fictitious
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| TOLLYWOOD |
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| AAAAAAA... thud! |
| Fifteen minutes into the two-hour-forty-five-minute-film you know what Shibaji is all about. That’s how novel the
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| TELEVISION |
| Hug before heartbreak |
| When Shilpa met Jade in the house of Bigg Boss, (telecast on Colors, 10pm every night) after their infamous stin
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| IN THE ACT |
| Santiago’s Indian jaunt |
| The magical tale of Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist is on its way to the Indian stage. Mumbai-based theatre producer
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| OUR FILMS, THEIR FILMS |
| Window to the world |
| Contemporary foreign cinema is finally playing at a theatre near you. You do not need to spend over Rs 100 to rent a DVD and
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| To quit being a quitter |
Having done a management course as a distance learning programme, I felt co... |
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| Graphic glory |
Sleep evades Devashish Makhija on most nights. The insomniac uses the time ... |
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| Netbook necessity |
The personal computer industry is poised to sell tens of millions of ... |
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| Fighting fit at 50 |
The improvement of medical facilities has ensured that there are lot more s... |
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