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Thursday, May 17, 2012
Silhouetted against the evening sky at sundown, this group presents a sharp tableau of a small beast, its handler and a tourist who wants a picture....
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
DAUGHTER of the late Deputy Prime Minister and prominent Dalit leader, Babu Jagjivan Ram and freedom fighter, Indrani Devi, speaker of the Lok Sabha, the elegant and equable-tempered Meira Kumar is our choice for President....
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
WE don’t know what you plan to do this weekend, but we could very well by at the Residence Hotel and Convention Centre in Powai, absorbing the atmosphere and imbibing the excitement of watching 70-odd determined players show their virtuosity over words....
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
WE had a rather good time recently, re-watching Aamir Khan’s in-house production Peepli Live, and admiring the virtuoso performances put up by such ordinary people as villagers from a small hamlet in Madhya Pradesh....
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
YOU are beginning to see them increasingly in the city, bands of folk comprising young, old and children, the men wearing large turbans, the women dressed in nine yard saris, rural folk trekking into the city to escape the drought in the hinterland....
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Saturday, May 12, 2012
PR man and regular ADC reader Mohan Rajan, is just back from Sri Lanka, waxing lyrical over bits of the country and also the fact that his piece about his travel has made it to The Lonely Planet magazine in its May issue....
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Saturday, May 12, 2012
AHEAD of the London Olympics, those planning to visit, especially for the first time, might want to go through an article by UK’s top food critic A.A. Gill, writing for The New York Times....
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Saturday, May 12, 2012
Much of the excitement over Satyamev Jayate and the possibility of actually being able to do something about the horrendous crime of female foeticide, practiced with such insouciance by us Indians, is negated by the stated fact that mindsets must be changed at the very highest level....
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Friday, May 11, 2012
Amid the ghastly reality of the daily struggle for water in hundreds of village in the state, the spectre of very death looms large over farmers and their families. Already the shift has begun, with drought-effected people streaming towards cities in Maharashtra and Karnataka to earn a crust or just get enough water to drink. Suyash Padate reports....
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
A year ago, almost to the day, tickled about the fact that we shared an office floor with a descendant of the late Morajibhai Desai, we met and interviewed young Vishaal Desai and asked him a lot of “how does it feel to be” type questions. ...
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
Sudhakar Gandhi is a cheerful sort, with a smiling face that gleams with good humour. He came to see us a couple of days ago, and that is when we heard how much he has to smile about....
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012
TRUST Aamir Khan to do it again and again and again, this time with a television series that looks like becoming as big as Lagaan and Rang de Basanti and Taare Zameen Par put together with an even longer reach because it shows on several channels at the same time....
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012
Stand-up comedian or just a taxi driver doing exercise? Our lensman caught this unusual use of one of Mumbai’s black and yellow brigade, doing his morning kasrath at Juhu yesterday, as a huge sea rolled in on the tail of supermoon. Or maybe he was trying to get a vantage view!...
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012
Mumbai is one international city that lags way behind London, Paris or New York with regard to its open spaces. It does not have the green patches of gentleness displayed by all the afore-mentioned cities? ...
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Saturday, May 05, 2012
Mumbai Indians co-owner Nita Ambani seeks blessings for her team at the Ambaji Temple in Ahmedabad on Friday. ...
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Saturday, May 05, 2012
TOMORROW (May 6, 2012) at 9.03 a.m., the Moon will reach the closest point (Perigee) in it orbit. Further at 9.05 a.m (3.35 a.m. GMT) moon would reach its monthly full total phase when its disk is fully illuminated (Full Moon)....
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Saturday, May 05, 2012
THE Press Club has decided to honour veteran journalist and Outllook group Editorial Advisor Vinod Mehta with a lifetime achievement award....
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Saturday, May 05, 2012
Maharashtra Governor K. Sankaranarayanan wants some initiative on creating a vocational training university in the state....
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Saturday, May 05, 2012
A US treasure hunter claims to have found the exact spot where Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden's body was dumped in the Arabian Sea, about 320 km off the Gujarat coast....
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Saturday, May 05, 2012
...to exercise their right in the forthcoming Legislative Council polls...
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