Preview: Indian Art Fair 2013: Best sculpture

Uma Nair31 January 2013, 02:38 PM IST Art from Alphabets by Jaume Plensa In the year 1999 at Chicago, the Catalan sculptor Jaume Plensa created a work called Whisper. It was made of a large circular bronze plate, string and a stick. Now so...

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Bangalore blues and Raag Bhayanak

Jayanth Kodkani31 January 2013, 03:22 PM IST Orhan Pamuk uses the beautiful Turkish word huzun to portray the state of mind of Istanbul. Huzun has been described as a melancholic state which denotes spiritual loss, but at the same time, entails...

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Amazing. All parties gang up against AIADMK on Kamal Haasan’s Vishwaroopam ban….

Prashant Panday31 January 2013, 04:08 PM IST It's amazing what's happening in India these days. It looks like political parties first gauge the public mood, and then decide what stand they should take on issues. Gone are the days when they would...

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Special Chabbis

Meeta Kabra30 January 2013, 04:37 PM IST I doubt there's anyone who has seen director, Neeraj Pandey's A Wednesday who won't want give Special Chabbis a chance. Despite Akshay Kumar. And of course, Akshay Kumar fans who haven't seen A Wednesday...

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ABCD Anybody Can Dance

Meeta Kabra30 January 2013, 06:55 PM IST Kay Kay Menon! Oooooh...playing a dance teacher? Wow, really? Oh maybe that's what they mean by 'anybody can dance'. Or maybe he's just playing the dance company's manager. I have hardly ever seen Kay...

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Come home to Kerala, Kamal Haasan

John Cheeran30 January 2013, 07:13 PM IST The only qualification I have to write this is that I have watched Kamal Haasan's controversial film Vishwaroopam. And I found nothing objectionable. All right, I'm not a Muslim. But not a single person...

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Eggs myths busted!

Rachna Chhachhi28 January 2013, 10:51 AM IST Before you abandon it, read this: One of nature's most perfect foods may be even better for us than previously thought. Myth 1: Egg is equal to cholesterol!Reality: Eggs are an excellent source of...

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For fewer rapes in India, moral courage is a start

Sucheta Dasgupta28 January 2013, 11:32 AM IST Those who would 'sacrifice' liberty for security deserve neither, Benjamin Franklin once said (hard as it is a true sacrifice always involves giving up something of a lesser value for something of...

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30 smartphones in a year? Slow down, Micromax

Javed Anwer28 January 2013, 05:30 PM IST Micromax is on fire. It is riding the Android wave. As smartphones get more popular, the Indian company is launching handset after handset. And many of these are pretty good devices for the price at which...

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Ashish Nandy’s statement shows how poor our language and mathematics skills are….

Prashant Panday27 January 2013, 11:35 AM IST Further evidence of how poor we Indians are with language and mathematics came yesterday when Ashish Nandy said "most of the corrupt came from OBCs, SCs and STs" (Indian Express). This was interpreted...

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Only disrupters bring change

Pritish Nandy27 January 2013, 12:47 PM IST Rahul Gandhi's coronation at the Chintan Shivir intrigued me. Apart from the noisy fire crackers, and the equally noisy TV debates that followed his appointment as Congress Vice President, nothing has...

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The Reclaiming of the Republic

Santosh Desai27 January 2013, 03:26 PM IST The 64th anniversary of the Indian republic is worth celebrating for the usual reasons but this year there is an additional reason for cheer. It is true that India has been a republic for 63 years,...

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Still a country for old men

Gautam Adhikari26 January 2013, 06:00 AM IST Did Beyonce lip-sync or did she actually sing America's national anthem on Monday at the inauguration of President Barack Obama? This momentous issue remains unresolved at the time of writing. But...

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We should celebrate Headley’s 35-year sentence, not complain….

Prashant Panday26 January 2013, 09:19 AM IST After the 35 year conviction of David Headley, the Pakistani-American terrorist who aided and abetted the Mumbai attacks, the Government of India and the Indian media appear to be disappointed with...

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Do you need to be liked all the time?

Vinita Dawra Nangia26 January 2013, 12:41 PM IST When an innate need to be liked and respected drives our actions, there is a fear of being low on substance and moral fibre Have you noticed two types of confident people at gatherings — those...

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Transfer pricing on home turf

Lubna Kably25 January 2013, 10:56 AM IST Zenobia Aunty recently met her CFO friend over tea. When she heard of the problems emanating from the domestic transfer pricing provisions, introduced last budget, she nearly fainted.  From financial...

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Now neither the Congress nor the BJP wants to name it’s PM candidate….

Prashant Panday25 January 2013, 11:01 AM IST If ever there was evidence required that neither the Congress nor the BJP was confident about 2014 (irrespective of their public posturing), it is that neither party is willing to name a PM candidate...

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Is 'Hndu terror' so shocking?

TK Arun25 January 2013, 03:33 PM IST The BJP has reacted very sharply to home minister Sushilkumar Shinde's accusation that the RSS and the BJP are training terrorists. It is entirely understandable that the party should demand solid proof and...

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David

Meeta Kabra24 January 2013, 02:16 PM IST Even though I didn't particularly like Bijoy Nambiar's debut Shaitan, I am looking forward to his next one, David. With Shaitaan I got this distinct feeling that he wanted to put in everything he had...

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In defence of Kamal Haasan's 'Vishwaroopam'

Arun Ram24 January 2013, 03:43 PM IST Kamal Haasan has made many good movies for which he got bouquets; and some bad movies for which he got brickbats. Now he is getting punished for making a movie that virtually nobody has watched. It's unfair—and...

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