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Rivals on Same Platform to Oppose Gay Rights

Two sworn enemies are among 12 parties that filed Special Leave Petitions in the Supreme Court

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7 Nov 2009 | BY Shivam Vij
Faking it Gets IIM-A Alumnus the Hits

A Delhi-based IIM-A alumnus Rahul Roushan has started India’s version of The Onion.

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31 Oct 2009 | BY Shivam Vij
Why is China Afraid of Him?

The Dalai Lama is ageing, and a succession tussle could set off another crisis in Indo-Chinese relations.

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31 Oct 2009 | BY Shivam Vij
Google Wave

If your friend is typing in French and you in English, Google Wave can translate both as you chat

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17 Oct 2009 | BY Shivam Vij
Bomba(y)rding Raj

The idea is to write Raj Thackeray a postcard with a peace message, with ‘Bombay’ instead of ‘Mumbai’ in the address.

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17 Oct 2009 | BY Shivam Vij
Sena on Call, Marathi Style

It’s a call centre alright. Over 100 youngsters man phones round the clock here. But no American twang, the only condition for employment here is fluency in Marathi. Because the employer happens to be the Shiv Sena. A month ago, the party’s executive president Uddhav Thackeray started the call centre inside Sena Bhavan in Dadar. You can get Uddhav’s number, besides details on candidates—and even complain against the Sena.

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10 Oct 2009 | BY Shivam Vij
Palestine Gets the First Tweet Street

‘@arjanelfassed tweetstreet’, in the Palestinian refugee camp of Askar, has become the world’s first street named after a Twitter account. This is what Arjan El Fassed, a Netherlands-based Dutch-Palestinian writer-activist, had to do to get it: donate $146 to a Dutch website which passed it on to the Palestinian Child Care Society to fund ‘cultural and expressive after-school activities’ for 1,000 children in the camp at its youth centre. Another 199 street names are up for grabs.0

10 Oct 2009 | BY Shivam Vij
Now, This Guy Can Be Your Facebook Buddie

You can now be friends with a rare Ugandan mountain gorilla on Facebook, or follow one on Twitter, or even...

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10 Oct 2009 | BY Shivam Vij
New Low for Singapore’s Ris Low

Ever since Ris Low won the Miss Singapore title, the 19-year-old’s life has been hitting new lows. Soon after the crowning, it was revealed she had been convicted a year ago for using stolen credit cards. She bought lingerie, mobile phones and jewellery worth 8,000 Singaporean dollars (Rs 2.7 lakh). Low has also been ridiculed for her Singaporean accent and long pauses in answering simple questions. The organisers say her English was perfect in interviews, and that she suffers from bipolar disorder.0

10 Oct 2009 | BY Shivam Vij
Murder Most Foul

Was the killing of historian Papiya Ghosh linked to the book she was working on? We may never know, but we can now at least read her book.

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10 Oct 2009 | BY Shivam Vij
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