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| A harvest of Khans |
| Bombay’s superstars are Muslim, but they mostly play Hindus |
| Recently I fulfilled a long-standing ambition to see a Bombay film in a Bombay theatre. I bought a ticket at the Regal in Colaba for a late-night screening of Luck By Chance, which is the thinking man’s Om Shanti Om with Farhan Akhtar p... |
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| Clean up the mess |
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Sir — It seems that there is a huge gap between professing good corporate governance and its actual ... |
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| Minor power |
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Sir — Ashok V. Desai in “Energetic flailing” (Feb 10) proposes that there should be a second House ... |
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| TRICK OR TREAT |
| An interim budget is ideally a non-event; the government by convention cannot raise or reduce taxes or subsidies in it. And t...|
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| NEVER AGAIN |
| Hugo Chávez has done it again — the 15th time in 10 years — and done it better than all previous times when the nation was c...|
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| Making fiery news |
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Who would have thought that the world economic meltdown was affecting China? CCTV, the state-owned TV network, ordered firecr... | Read.. |
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| The ladies do protest too much |
| To protest against the assault and molestation of girls in a Mangalore pub by Pramod Mutalik’s Sri Ram Sena, the Pink Chaddi Campaign was launched by the Consortium of Pubgoin... |
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| With a blazing tail |
| You have to do what you have to do. Isn’t that what the Gita says? No one needs to read the Gita to know this, no one needs to read anything at all. A strange spectre called I... |
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| It’s easy, it’s so easy |
| I remember reading Kate Millet’s Sexual Politics for the first time at university, in the mid-Eighties, as a confused and un-self-aware young person. I found her exciti... |
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The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men in history.
— BERTRAND RUSSELL
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