If I were Zaibunissa Kazi…

Shobhaa De31 March 2013, 04:02 AM IST Question: What is the one thing Zaibunissa Kazi seems to have done right in her 70-plus years? Answer: She has produced one hell of a smart daughter! Listening to Shagufta Kazi arguing her mother's case...

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Slums are hubs of hope, progress and dignity

SA Aiyar31 March 2013, 05:42 AM IST The Census Commissioner has released a new report showing that 64 million people, representing one in six urban residents, live in slums with unsanitary conditions "unfit for human habilitation." This has...

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Let’s celebrate the ‘good enough’

Vinita Dawra Nangia31 March 2013, 08:54 AM IST Why must life be a swinging between extremes? Let us learn to enjoy the in-between state when we are 'ok' "Is that dish good?" I asked my husband at the dinner table. "No," he replied frankly,...

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Mavericks to Modi’s rescue

Chidanand Rajghatta30 March 2013, 06:47 AM IST The word maverick is derived from an American cattle rancher named Samuel Maverick who was best known for NOT branding his cattle at a time when marking them for ownership was the done thing. Those...

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Will Supreme Court rule for patients over patents?

Rema Nagarajan30 March 2013, 12:47 PM IST   The Swiss pharmaecutical company, Novartis, having lost the case to change India's patent law in the Madras High Court and before the Intellectual Property Appellate Board, is now making a last...

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Karunanidhi arrested for stopping Jayalalithaa’s escort

Arun Ram30 March 2013, 07:34 PM IST I didn't make that up.Dr Karunanidhi, a 70-year-old physician in Chennai was arrested on Thursday and kept in prison overnight. The charge: Causing hurt to a public servant. What he did: Asking a police sub-inspector...

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Gujarat's swine flu puzzle

Rajiv Shah29 March 2013, 01:28 PM IST It was October 29, 2009 evening, around 5.00 pm. I had just reached my office in Gandhinagar after my routine round of Sachivalaya. A journalist-colleague, representing a vernacular daily, came down to me...

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In the name of the father!

Rumy Agarwal29 March 2013, 03:14 PM IST Sometimes simple gestures can be so much more eloquent than words… I realized this recently when my husband, our younger son Abhinav and I were driving through some rush hour traffic in the city and hubby...

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Vellore in limelight - Rare album at Sotheby’s

Uma Nair29 March 2013, 05:55 PM IST The genre of British watercolours and cultural accessories of the British Raj have always stood apart for their touch of class and their elusive candour.Sotheby's presents a rare set in the month of April....

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Indian artists under 40 - Jitish Kallat tops popularity international market

Uma Nair28 March 2013, 10:55 AM IST Artprice.com gives us a chart that looks at popularity of Indian contemporary artists under 40 and Mumbai-based Jitish Kallat tops the list while Raqib Shaw of London comes a close second followed by Thukral...

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Politics killed dinosaurs?

Manas Gupta28 March 2013, 01:37 PM IST What really killed the dinosaurs? A comet, a meteor, a super volcano, or plain stupidity?  Weeks after a study found that dinosaurs were wiped out from the earth due to a massive meteor strike comes...

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Finally, an affordable tablet you can buy

Javed Anwer28 March 2013, 06:45 PM IST No, it is not Aakash, Aakash 2, Aakash 3 or the mythical tablet Moses carried. It is Nexus 7, Google's first tablet. A few weeks ago, I wrote about Micromax Canvas HD, terming it the phone to buy if you...

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Working Women and Working Men - A Country Divided

Rukmini Shrinivasan27 March 2013, 11:35 AM IST When I wrote about Delhi's extremely low female workforce participation rates last weekend, several people emailed asking if I had numbers for their states. It's something I'm curious about too,...

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India, Sri Lanka need to revisit the past for a better future

Manimugdha S Sharma27 March 2013, 11:43 AM IST Over two millennia ago, a great emperor who called himself Devanampiya Piyadassi (beloved of the gods) and who believed in Dhamma-vijaya (spiritual/moral conquest) more than digvijaya (military...

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Strobe Talbott: An American at large

TK Arun27 March 2013, 12:21 PM IST At large' is a term that fits Strobe Talbott rather well. Not so much because it has been part of his official designation on two occasions in the past — editor-at-large for Time and ambassador-at-large for...

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Whats wrong with our politicians??? Demand for Sanjay Dutt release, suspension of Mumbai cop unacceptable….

Prashant Panday26 March 2013, 09:39 AM IST I am usually nice to politicians. I think we malign them too much; fail to understand their contribution to society. All of us armchair critics simply cannot get it that many of them are genuine leaders...

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For the love of Sanjay

Sharmila Ravinder26 March 2013, 11:41 AM IST Heroism is celebrated best in India and the definition of a different kind of heroism too is also bizarrely unique to our part of the world. Most of us have a very misguided sense of gallantry; valiance...

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No political instability, stupid! Get on with your business.

TK Arun26 March 2013, 03:57 PM IST There is a lot of speculation about the stability of the central government. Elections, it is being suggested, might be held in September-October this year, rather than in May 2014 as scheduled. This instability,...

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A status update on various recent “scams” shows it was mostly froth….

Prashant Panday25 March 2013, 09:53 AM IST Since a lot of so called "scams" have "broken" on media in the last few months, I think it's a good time to look at their current status. How much of all was this was just hot air (or gas), and how...

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Online or Offline?

Shubho Sengupta25 March 2013, 10:40 AM IST Twitter really happened, exploded 'offline'. Not online. The Twitter founders decided to attend the music-film-and-tech conference South by Southwest (SXSW) in Texas, 2007. Now this was risky because...

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Countdown to 2014 – or 2013?

Minhaz Merchant25 March 2013, 03:46 PM IST The UPA government, adrift at the centre, would like to advance the 2014 Lok Sabha election to October-November 2013. That would serve three purposes. One, avoid the electoral blowback of four likely...

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