2012: The 10 comic books you shouldn't miss

Anish Dasgupta31 December 2012, 12:53 PM IST 2012 was a great year for comic book fans - not just for reading, but for viewing as well! We watched The Avengers finally get the Hulk right. We saw Bane and Batman battle it out in the final chapter...

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Mera Bharat mayhem

Jug Suraiya31 December 2012, 03:02 PM IST Like other communities around the country, the National Media Centre (NMC), the co-operative housing society in Gurgaon where I live, shared the nationwide grief over the tragic death of the young woman...

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Family, Socialization and Subversion of ‘Shame’

Ragini Nayak31 December 2012, 03:55 PM IST 'Shame' is a powerful word because it is associated with something as pure and as forthright as the conscience. . In the societal purview, its presence in a person exemplifies a sense of pride and dignity....

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Delhi gang rape girl: Salute the braveheart

Jitendra Verma29 December 2012, 09:57 AM IST Yet again a life has been snuffed out, very violently at that. Yet again, a woman has been violated and killed in cold blood. The nation will pay homage to the 23-year-old Delhi gang rape victim who...

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Be grateful, there won’t be any rape on Raisina Hill

Kannan Somasundaram29 December 2012, 02:37 PM IST Anthropo-legal theories cruise unstoppably like that bus with tinted windows,And legislators say you have no moral right if a salon has fixed your eyebrows,Water canons to the right of Indians,...

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Nirbhaya the revolutionary

Akhilesh Kumar Singh29 December 2012, 02:48 PM IST Dear God, As a firm believer in divinity, I am convinced that Nirbhaya (the name TOI coined for the Delhi gang-rape victim) would have been offered a coveted seat in your heavenly durbar. She...

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2014: the electoral math-II

Minhaz Merchant28 December 2012, 02:22 PM IST With the 16th Lok Sabha election likely to be held in late-2013 or early-2014, four key factors will affect its outcome: First, intractable inflation and sluggish economic growth despite a slew...

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Nirbhaya shifted in her interests or govt interests?

Rema Nagarajan28 December 2012, 02:55 PM IST The shifting of the 23-year-old rape survivor to a Singapore hospital has raised innumerable questions about government intentions rather than reassuring the public of the government's 'best intentions'....

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India must not take Nepal for granted

Rudroneel Ghosh28 December 2012, 04:13 PM IST Nepal President Ram Baran Yadav's ongoing visit to India comes at a crucial time. For months now Nepali politics has been stuck in a painful impasse. Having missed several deadlines, the country's...

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India 2013. A time for New Year resolutions?

Sukanti Ghosh27 December 2012, 11:06 AM IST Come end December and people the world over start to think about the year gone by – the highs, the lows, the achievements, the failures, things to laugh about, things to worry about, new friends made...

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The fear factor

Swati Sucharita27 December 2012, 01:01 PM IST Some of us might remember a TV reality show, the Indian adaptation of a hugely successful US daredevil stunt series, which tested (male and female) contestants' endurance of various phobias, like...

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Apocalypse, NOW!

Meeta Chaitanya27 December 2012, 12:35 PM IST The world has come to an end. The precise day, Dec 16, 2012 will be inked in our minds, in our writs, in our social media boards and forums, in our blogs, in our comments and maybe, for a change,...

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Highs and lows of Indian Art 2012

Uma Nair25 December 2012, 10:44 PM IST 2012 in the Indian art world was at best a stage with many acts- drenched  in the delights of pretension  and debauchery.And when  the dust  settles on deals and the lack of money flow...

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India’s dying need for new-age social reformers….

Prashant Panday26 December 2012, 01:33 PM IST The recent rape case in Delhi (and the hundreds others across the country which didn't get as much publicity and attention), along with a hundred other types of atrocities against women shows us...

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Tender minds angry questions

Kingshuk Mukherji26 December 2012, 02:27 PM IST The savage gangrape of a 23-year-old woman and the angry outburst of youngsters thereafter, have left a mark on children. I am not using the word scar here, for fear of overstating the case. Twelve...

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With Constable Tomar dead, there is blood on the protesters’ hands….

Prashant Panday25 December 2012, 04:33 PM IST Shocking, the extent to which the demonstraters in Delhi have lost their mental balance. What was once a noble fight has suddenly become a lowly brawl. What was once a gathering of "revolutionaries"...

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Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola

What a lovely way to start the year it will be! A Vishal Bharadwaj film that looks like it is full of energy and fun. And if we know anything from his filmography, it will surely have something more. What a pleasant surprise it is to see Shabana Azmi...

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Her story. Our story.

Soma Ghosh25 December 2012, 06:17 PM IST She is still alive and she is still willing to live. Her sodomized, gangrenous intestines have been removed surgically and yet her heart feebly beats on. Her body has started to reject antibiotics so...

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One week later

Deepan Joshi24 December 2012, 03:18 PM IST It's like a winter chill that sets on you, leaving you numb. In this cold they threw out the boy and the girl naked around 10.15pm as a living system throws out its refuse. After they were done, they...

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