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| Postcards from the edge |
| They are the real nowhere people — men, women and children living in Indian enclaves in Bangladesh, and on Bangladesh territory within India. A new pact signed by the two governments seems likely to give them citizenship through an exchange of enclaves. But Debaashish Bhattacharya finds that the people there are sceptical that this will really happen |
| I t could well have been Akbar Ali’s moment of triumph. After all, he had waited for this day for nearly four decades. But when India and Bangladesh signed an agreement in Dhaka on September 6 to resolve long-simmering border disputes, Ali, who ... |
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| It’s a Wiki Wiki world! |
| Vaibhav Jain, 13, looks like any other child. The Delhi resident is crazy about animated characters Pokémon and Shin-chan, an
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| Lost in translation |
| This is at one level a salutary tale of how the “donkey”, a much loved if somewhat slow and docile friend of childr
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| Take a bow, Naseer |
| It just takes a simple text message to get an appointment with Naseeruddin Shah. And that’s saying something — for the a
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| Moments uninterrupted |
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| As a social media columnist and self-described “Twitter-aholic”, my previous “off the grid” experiences
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| Rich and busy dance guru |
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| Much like our cricketers who have a lucrative life between matches, filmmakers too have avenues that didn’t exist a d
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| IDENTITY CRISIS: Mansab Sheoraguri, an Indian enclave within a Bangladeshi onePicture: Debaashish Bhattacharya |
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