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STOP PRESS. SRK-SALMAN HUG
Last night I felt the stars slowly align and the Fates murmur quietly. And then came the announcement on Twitter. The sub-continent’s two superpowers had broken bread, or in this case biryani. If you...
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NOT IN OUR BEST INTEREST
Imagine a device following you every minute of every day, listening into your telephone calls, reading your emails, intercepting your text messages, shredding any privacy you may have in life. Sounds...
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A POINTLESS AGENDA
What happens when you have too many star anchors on just one channel? You have to allot each of them a solo programme. Even if the programme is completely redundant. At 7:30 pm every weekday, Sunetra...
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PUTTING THE DONKEY LAST
Co-authored by Anand Ranganathan You can take an Indian out of India, but you cannot take his foot out of his mouth. In an interesting piece about himself in Mint, noted economist Jagdish Bhagwati...
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WHO’S THE REAL FASCIST?
One fine day, the landmass cracked and Gujarat was no longer a part of India. It broke away from the mainland just as Pakistan had in 1947. It is now very much a separate country and its citizens, the...
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SHOULD SEN BE STRIPPED?
Dr Chandan Mitra, Editor-in-Chief, Pioneer yesterday demanded that Dr Amartya Sen should be stripped of his Bharat Ratna when the next NDA government takes office. The reason stated for his ire is...
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MMS: AAJ KA ABHIMANYU
Manmohan Singh enters his bedroom. His gait is weary. He looks tired as he sinks into the sofa. He plucks his spectacles and places them on a side-table and stares at a peg on the wall. He sighs....
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LESS MURROW, MORE BACHCHAN
As a kid I was a huge fan of Amitabh Bachchan (indeed I still am a massive fan) and his movies. I vividly remember the high I used to get while watching the climax of the film where he would pound the...
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UPA’S MONKEY BUSINESS
‘Imagining the silence? Really?’ Pawan Khera’s (Indian Express, July 19, 2013) rejoinder to Pratap Bhanu Mehta’s exquisitely crafted article ‘While we were silent’ (Indian Express, July 11 2013),...
View ArticleCLOTHESLINE EPISODE 11
The wrap of the good, the bad & the funny on this week’s news TV. Sombre news channel promos, NDTV’s Midday marvel, burning issues on Big Fight, Arnab, Bhagwati vs Sen, Khera vs Mehta, Tehseen vs...
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WILL ALL LIFESTYLE MAGS DIE?
This month, Outlook announced the closure of all its three licensed international publications: Marie Claire, People and Geo. Last month, my previous company had shut down two of its publications -...
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RENAMING THE POVERTY LINE
What is poverty? Who is poor? According to the Planning Commission only 22% of Indians are now Below the Poverty Line. This means that 78% of Indians are blessed. To define a line that stands at Rs 27...
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A BLEAK OUTLOOK
Barely had the dust settled from Crest announcing its demise last week, that on Friday (July 26, 2013) afternoon I was told by a friend that the Mumbai teams of People and Marie Claire had been...
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TOI – TAKING PRISONERS
http://www.firstpost.com/bollywood/when-sanjay-dutt-forgot-how-to-write-828649.html
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WELL PLAYED ASLAN
Lauren Green was hardly a worthy adversary, but well played Reza Aslan. By now most of you have probably seen this takedown of the Fox News anchor who made a complete ass of herself - nudged along by...
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WHAT IS “REAL INDIA”?
Did you know that India’s GDP numbers occur in a parallel universe? It was news to me too. But hey, if it’s on national TV and Nidhi Razdan asks the viewer - “while we obsess over GDP numbers, what...
View ArticleI AGREE WITH MEENAKSHI LEKHI
Meenakshi Lekhi on why Sonia Gandhi refrains from debates, the importance of facial expressions and more…
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POVERTY OF SENSE
The circus is back in town with an obscenely low poverty line and tall claims of poverty eradication. The Planning Commission has claimed poverty is at a record low of 22%, a first for India. And that...
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