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| A four-letter word — book — is hitting the headlines again as politicians in Maharashtra come together to trash James W. Laine’s work on Shivaji. But Smitha Verma and Sonia Sarkar argue that banning books — the State’s favourite pastime — is a weapon that’s losing its edge |
| The poor man didn’t know what hit him. India’s best loved sardarji was on a visit to Calcutta when he made some candid remarks about Bengal’s best loved poet Rabindranath Tagore, turning his nose up a bit at his poetry. The city... |
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| A tale of two Roys |
| Did Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy, West Bengal’s iconic chief minister from 1948 until his death in 1962, have a mystery elder
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| On a song and a prayer |
| Kunal Ganjawala has been hitting all the right notes. When the popular Hindi singer who made his mark in the film industry wi
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| The school that Uday built |
| Dada [Uday Shankar] had been planning a trip to Bali for some time, and I was extremely flattered when he agreed to take me w
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| Raju’s flight with the Idiots |
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| Ever since 3 Idiots was released in December, its director Rajkumar Hirani has spent more time on a plane than on t
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