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Wednesday, 22 May 2013

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The hilarious case of Avatar Tulsi

The Ramayana essay that Delhi University banned

The man who survived 42 hours trapped in a lift

The hypocrisy of Indian fashion designers

The fraud of Vedic maths

The making of Baba Ramdev

The mystery of the leopard that was not

IN Voices

My Lipstick and Other Discoveries

Why sexual fatigue is the best thing that’s happened to me lately

25 May 13 | BY Sonali K

Finding Shimit Amin

Finding Shimit Amin • Boney, Will You Cast Your Son? • Presenting Mr Expensive

25 May 13 | BY Rajeev Masand

Those Dozing Porn Gods

It’s time they’re jolted awake by women who watch

18 May 13 | BY Sonali K

The Emperor’s New Values

On the absurdity of the nude dance of an NSUI president becoming such a big deal

18 May 13 | BY Madhavankutty Pillai

Let’s Not Ask Her Screen Age

Let’s Not Ask Her Screen Age • Tears of Luck • To Act or Not To Act

18 May 13 | BY Rajeev Masand

The All-Seeing Eye

What cases of police personnel getting caught on camera hitting women say about a welcome new world in the making

16 May 13 | BY Madhavankutty Pillai

The Unreliable Source

The second rung of the Congress party, where there is much jostling for power, is the origin of some of the most ridiculous political spin in recent times

16 May 13 | BY Hartosh Singh Bal

The Games We Play

Our strategies for surviving singlehood may not save us

11 May 13 | BY Sonali K

What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard

How to create opportunity out of exaggerated humiliation à la Azam Khan

11 May 13 | BY Madhavankutty Pillai

The Absentees

The Absentees • One for the Self-Help Book • Some Unusual Weight Gain

11 May 13 | BY Rajeev Masand

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The Man Who is Afraid of a Skullcap

Two books on Narendra Modi establish why it is silly to hope that the bigot will ever be any less bigoted

Hartosh Singh Bal

The Unreliable Source

The second rung of the Congress party, where there is much jostling for power, is the origin of some of the most ridiculous political spin in recent times

Hartosh Singh Bal

IN Lounge > Arts

REPURPOSED, UNFINISHED: As the performance progresses, Chopra transforms from an austere figure standing out in white against the bare concrete walls of an unused space in a half-empty mall to a dark shadow, blackened and enervated by the labour of recreating a remembered Saket (BLACKENING V, 2013/KIRAN NADAR MUSEUM OF ART | PHOTOS: SAHEJ RAHAL/COSTUME: LOIS BRAGANZA)

Inside Out Artist

Nikhil Chopra redraws history in performance

BY Divya Saxena

IN Lounge > Books

Selasi’s storytelling only bears fruit when you allow yourself to be rocked by the sometimes choppy wave motion of her prose—gushes, pull-backs, slowly building undercurrents—and surrender to the way she plays fast and loose with punctuation and sentence-structure.

Nothing Lush, Soft or Verdant

Taiye Selasi’s first novel runs circles around the ‘African story’ you’re used to

BY Devika Bakshi

IN Lounge > Cinema

That’s the thing about Mithun. He is not ‘cool’ like the English-speaking Amitabh.(Photo: DINODIA)

The Poor Man’s Pop Star

For years, Mithun Chakraborty has been a victim of elite prejudice—what multiplex goers call a ‘downmarket’ star.

BY Shaikh Ayaz

IN Lounge > Science

Why do identical twins who share their genes and environment grow up into such different individuals?

Of Mice, Men and Malleable Minds

Researchers say they have located the neurobiological basis of rodent and human individuality

IN Lounge > Www

The time it took to try cheating, by altering the ‘settings’, is enough to make one consider the consequences of doing so and decide against it.

Addicted to the Net?

If you are wasting too much time on ‘interesting’ sites, let this browser manage your time.

BY Avinash Subramaniam

Public Opinion
The Unreliable Source

The second rung of the Congress party, where there is much jostling for power, is the origin of some of the most ridiculous political spin in recent times

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On the Contrary
The All-Seeing Eye

What cases of police personnel getting caught on camera hitting women say about a welcome new world in the making

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LEGACY
A Classic and its Afterlife

CLR James’ Beyond a Boundary on its 50th anniversary

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THROWAWAY
The Bungle Jumble Party

God’s gift to the Congress

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RELOAD
Eternal Tales in The Electronic Age

The first act of Amar Chitra Katha’s rescue is over. The brand has survived. But Act Two will be tricky

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ARM’S LENGTH
That Fizzling Sound

As cola drinks are shunned by health junkies

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HAZARD
Poison in Paradise

How burning garbage and indiscriminate quarrying on the coast could spell the death of the Andaman Islands

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True Life
Just Another Massacre

Sinam Ongbi Chandrajini lost children in a massacre in Malom in 2000. It was the horror of this incident that led Irom Sharmila to begin her fast against AFSPA

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Media
Facebook to Bhaktbook

A Hindu devotional song calls out to Facebookers seen as sinners in need of redemption

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COOL-OFF
Inside Scoop

The joys of artisanal ice-cream

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Doosra
The Khan Who Couldn’t

Nawaz Sharif’s party won a near majority in Pakistan’s National Assembly. But it was Imran Khan’s campaign that animated the polls

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Divine
The Devil in a God-fearing Home

The parents of S Sreesanth, a devout couple, might be thinking even god can't help their son now.

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