Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster Returns

Meeta Kabra28 February 2013, 11:01 AM IST A sequel which actually is a sequel, and not just cashing in on the prospect of a franchise - that's welcome already. So, we'll be back in the aristocratic world of the prince, his wife and a new gangster...

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Are you bothered by Ram Gopal Varma's bad personal ethics?

Babita Basu28 February 2013, 05:53 PM IST The year was 2008. The month was December. Film director Ram Gopal Varma took what was widely understood and interpreted as a terror tour, barely two weeks after ISI-trained terrorists left Mumbai's...

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A tax and spend budget

Pyaralal Raghavan28 February 2013, 07:28 PM IST The only things that have gone up are taxes and subsidies.The finance minister Chidambaram who is widely acclaimed for his acumen and hands on approach to governance seems to finally slipping up....

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How to create new Haji Mastans with Budget 2013

TK Arun27 February 2013, 12:31 PM IST The FM should mind the law of unintended consequences when levying new taxes With his forthcoming budget, finance minister P Chidambaram could add a few noteworthy examples to the field of...

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Anubhuti? What Anubhuti?

Gautam Siddharth27 February 2013, 05:33 PM IST Recoiled in dread on hearing the Rail Mantri, Pawan Kumar Bansal, say that he plans to introduce luxury coaches called "Anubhuti" — to be connected with Shatabdis and Rajdhanis.Dread because although...

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Pain self-inflicted, so relatively easy to relieve, finds the Economic Survey

TK Arun27 February 2013, 06:44 PM IST The Economic Survey 2012-13 is lucid, well-argued and short of new big ideas, commendably so. New brainwaves are the last thing we need in India, while ignoring well-identified action imperatives. The Survey...

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A point by point rebuttal of Jaitley’s letter opposing NCTC….

Prashant Panday26 February 2013, 12:36 PM IST Arun Jaitley has said that the BJP is opposed to the NCTC "in its current form". The lame duck excuse he is given is the same old argument – that the NCTC "impinges upon the powers of the state government"....

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Television Reloaded

Rumy Agarwal26 February 2013, 04:27 PM IST Well, okay, so most of us are TV buffs; or, at least we like watching TV…after all, the idiot box has come up with a delightful smorgasbord of fare that we can pick and choose from—daily soaps, 24x7...

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Teachers learn to be Leaders too

Meeta Sengupta26 February 2013, 05:36 PM IST Sometimes teachers have to face the strangest situations.    "My student will not stop crying and won't tell me why' is probably the most common. Every teacher has had these days when...

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Truth or Dare: Games teachers play

Swaty Prakash25 February 2013, 01:44 PM IST When he stepped in the room with his parents in tow, he had an air of defiance, only this time it was not targeted towards me but his parents. "So, he tells us we should meet you at the end of the...

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Mandatorily philanthropic?

Sukanti Ghosh25 February 2013, 02:42 PM IST A shade over two decades ago, while conducting a study at Tata Steel, I remember being astounded by the work the steel major was doing in the area of community relations, social development and tribal...

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The age of ambiguity

Pritish Nandy25 February 2013, 03:52 PM IST I grew up in an era of certainties. We knew what was right, what was wrong. So even when we did wrong, often in defiance of authority, we believed we were in the right. There was no ambivalence, no...

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Design Thinking

Abhijit Bhaduri24 February 2013, 11:19 AM IST When we are given a problem to solve, we spend time thinking about the problem and reframe the issue and try many things in our head to move towards a solution. Design thinking actually takes the...

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Wrestling & Olympics: is it just a drama?

Amit Karmarkar24 February 2013, 12:01 PM IST I was on the verge of shedding a tear for wrestling's demotion from the core sports of the Olympic Games. There was a feeling of anger about IOC's executive board too for voting the ancient sport...

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Remembering Readers Digest

Santosh Desai24 February 2013, 07:01 PM IST Growing up, it was an unspoken rule of some kind, that middle class homes with any pretensions to education, must have as part of their drawing room display, a row of Reader's Digest magazines, preferably...

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Quality of debates in Parliament more dangerous than even terror attacks….

Prashant Panday23 February 2013, 10:06 AM IST Thank god Parliament is at least functioning. Usually, the first few days (at the very minimum) are just washed out on one excuse or the other. But its hardly a happy feeling one gets when we consider...

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Debate on terror blasts generates more heat than light

Dileep Padgaonkar23 February 2013, 11:26 AM IST Double-speak is what we have heard since the latest terrorist attacks in Hyderabad. We'll come to that in a minute. But for the country, the only question is: could the government have been better...

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An Oscar award for a 19th century Kerala poet?

Viju B23 February 2013, 05:54 PM IST I hope classical singer Bombay Jayashri, in case she wins an Oscar in the original song category for the movie Life of Pi, will have the humility to say in her Oscar speech that there is nothing original...

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Can govt share values with repeat offenders among corporates?

Rema Nagarajan22 February 2013, 01:40 PM IST A few days back, a report from Indonesia in the Guardian newspaper explained how the baby-formula making company, Danone, in the name of running training for midwives, was distributing gifts for midwives...

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Why India is hit by terrorism – again and again

Minhaz Merchant22 February 2013, 02:44 PM IST The twin blasts in Hyderabad underline how the politics of communalism has made India vulnerable to terrorism imported from Pakistan and executed by Indian extremists. While Union Home Minister Sushilkumar...

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