Congress

Rahul Gandhi wants to radically transform a party that had grown much too distant from ordinary citizens. He expects to have 20 million new recruits, but wants more.

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Mathematics

The mythical mathematician is a troubled but brilliant mind focused on truths that lie beyond the horizon. This may not be the entire truth, but then what is?

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Faith

Seven thousand fanatical Christians have boycotted the census because they believe the unique identification project is Satan’s plan to rule the world.

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soap queen

Maharashtra Election Commissioner Neela Satyanarayan has the most unusual of hobbies.

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Music

Decades after we banished LPs, collectors and newbies confess that vinyl is spinning its way back into their lives as audio-grade discs re-mastered to sound better.

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Skin
What Lies Beneath?

Skin, the largest organ in our body, is the subject of an artful yet macabre exhibition at London’s Wellcome Collection museum.

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patch-up
Deewar Breaks Down Between Salim, Big B

Amitabh Bachchan makes up with Salim Khan and credits the stalwart with shaping his career as a ‘Angry Young Man.’

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Rolls Royce
Chiru’s Phantom Gift

When politicians get Rs 4 crore gifts, normally they keep it under wraps. But not if you are a superstar and not if it is your son doing the gifting.

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Cinema
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Lafangey Parindey

A moving tale, supported by fine performances, about a friendship that comes with a price.

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Science
God’s Number

Google helps prove the maximum number of moves that a perfect puzzle solver would require to solve any Rubik’s Cube position is 20.

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Gadgets
Sanyo Dual Camera

A convenient 10 megapixel camera with full HD capability and long battery life.

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It is utterly graceless to grudge parliamentarians their pay hike—for a variety of reasons that matter to the future of Indian democracy.

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Ratan Tata retires in 2012 as Tata Group Chairman and a five-member panel is searching for his successor. A look at how they might choose and who it could be.

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Both the BJP and Left parties are hypocritical in their thrusts as they attack the Government on the Nuclear Bill.

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Senior Maoist leader Kobad Ghandy, presently under arrest inside Tihar jail, writes about how mining giants are making obscene amounts of money at the cost of the poor.

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Seeking therapy can work. Sadly, however, too many of us are completely unsure of whether it’s time yet, or not.

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This entrepreneur began bullet proofing vehicles in the 1980s’ Punjab, but now finds that demand is getting stronger and stronger.

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In the midst of the Afghan war, Indians have been conserving pre-Islamic art, Buddhist monuments and Mughal gardens, even tracing links back to the Bronze Age.

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from the open archives

remembrance

Ten years ago, when armed intruders tried to run over Kargil, nobody knew about this area. But the war has changed this place forever

language

Kapil Dev, without any struggle, has got complete independence from the rules of the English language

identity

On the Caribbean islands, the immigrant Indian story is laced with shame and bitterness. They are neither Indian enough nor Caribbean enough

bungle

Pushkar’s holy lake is dry. As the religious and secular alike are beset by a rising sense of panic, we get to the bottom of the crisis.

Tone deaf

He suffers from amusia and can’t tell the difference between the national anthem and Beethoven’s Fifth

Fashion

Streetwear has become quite a rage among urban youngsters with an attitude. Do we spy another revolution in the making?

audience

Today, poetry is a marginal mode of communication. Perhaps what the poet should look for is the intensity of his readership, not its size

qed

‘Satanic Verses’ was banned 20 years ago. In all the navel-gazing contemporary Indian fiction, where’s the book that has the power to offend?

QED

What’s with the BJP and its obsession with Jinnah? First LK Advani and now Jaswant Singh have gone out on a limb to say something charitable about the man.

It Happens

Olive Ridleys used to be food for this fishing village in north Kerala, until one man read a newspaper article.