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Thursday, 23 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

under Kalpish Ratna

Cry Rape and Be Noticed

How the Delhi rape has wrought a prurient me-too madness in the media and the average citizen

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21 Jan 2013 | BY Kalpish Ratna

The Last Free Lunch

The only way to evade diabetes is to stop evading responsibility for what we eat

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14 Jan 2013 | BY Kalpish Ratna

Notes to Ourselves

What must we do to survive the persistent onslaught of dengue, malaria, chikungunya, swine flu…?

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19 Dec 2012 | BY Kalpish Ratna

Sheep in Wolf Attire

Naomi Wolf’s new book on the vagina is as misogynistic as they come

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3 Oct 2012 | BY Kalpish Ratna

The Puzzle of Gilbert Hill

Signs of the Continental Drift are still visible in this densely populated part of Mumbai

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17 May 2012 | BY Kalpish Ratna

Mama Em’s Cope Book

In literature focused on insanity, the gaze seems to have shifted from the insane. The patient is no longer the victim; that status now belongs to the caregiver

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8 May 2012 | BY Kalpish Ratna

Finding Fact in Fiction

Real life intrudes on fiction all the time. Kalpish Ratna indulge in some literary detection as they search for clues to the true character of Arthur Conan Doyle in Sherlock Holmes’ life and movements

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25 Mar 2012 | BY Kalpish Ratna

You Might Be Dangerous

Shoot on sight, and don’t think twice. That seems to be the credo of the Italians on board the Enrica Lexie, unchanged since the European intrusion into our waters in 1498

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2 Mar 2012 | BY Kalpish Ratna

Mimics and Models

Whatever Jane Austen might think, PD James’ Death Comes to Pemberley ranks among the finest examples of literary mimicry, a genre that has good reason to exist

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23 Feb 2012 | BY Kalpish Ratna

Good for the Sole

The abject surrender of medical intelligence in the age of gadgetry

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17 Feb 2012 | BY Kalpish Ratna

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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

Collateral Clean-Up

It may not entirely be a sense of duty that is motivating CBI Director Ranjit Sinha

Mihir Srivastava

Let’s Not Ask Her Screen Age

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

Rajeev Masand

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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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Hartosh Singh Bal

Facebook to Bhaktbook

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

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Sumana Roy

Those Dozing Porn Gods

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

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Sonali K

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Rape at Home

The trial of a French Consulate employee, accused of raping his minor daughter, has begun in Bangalore. His wife Suja Jones speaks to Open

Aimee Ginsburg

Waiting for Deliverance

What families in Haryana will do to have a son. A witness’ account

Ruhani Kaur

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

most commented this month

Rape at Home

The trial of a French Consulate employee, accused of raping his minor daughter, has begun in Bangalore. His wife Suja Jones speaks to Open

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Aimee Ginsburg

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

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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

25

Hartosh Singh Bal

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
Soft Brains, Hard On

What makes Mumbai’s municipal corporators demand a ban on scantily clad mannequins

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LEGACY
A Classic and its Afterlife

CLR James’ Beyond a Boundary on its 50th anniversary

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CARROT AND STICK
Citizens and Soldiers

The CRPF’s missteps threaten its efforts to woo tribal youth in Chhattisgarh

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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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MODERN TIMES
Infernal Lessons

Deciphering Dan Brown’s bestseller Inferno

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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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THROWAWAY
The Bungle Jumble Party

God’s gift to the Congress

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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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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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