Why be someone else when you can be you?

Pooja Bedi30 June 2013, 06:01 AM IST Our lives are like a train journey.  Imagine it as a black line on a white canvas. There is a starting destination which is birth and the final stop which is death, and in between a bunch of "common...

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Say no to domestic abuse

Vinita Dawra Nangia30 June 2013, 08:53 AM IST Women must not stay silent about domestic violence; think of the legacy you are leaving your children"Mom, what then is the difference between Meena (our part-time help) and Nigella Lawson?" asked...

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Aakar Patel blows the lid off Narendra Modi’s “strong governance” hype….

Prashant Panday30 June 2013, 01:21 PM IST A few weeks back, Manohar Parrikar, the Goa CM and visible Modi backer, offered an impossible explanation on why Modi failed to control the mobs during the post-Godhra riots. Back then in 2002, Modi...

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EC should listen to Gopinath Munde…..not disqualify him

Prashant Panday29 June 2013, 06:30 PM IST Gopinath Munde, senior leader of the BJP in Maharashtra made a rather candid admission the other day in Mumbai. He said that he had spent Rs 8 crores four years back on his LS election. The Election...

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Tips to select the right branch of engineering

Ajit Varwandkar29 June 2013, 06:47 PM IST   The two most prominent questions bewildering parents & engineering aspirant children these days are:                         ...

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Why Modi’s rescue act backfired, and why it needn’t have

Anand Soondas29 June 2013, 07:39 PM IST On June 22, as Narendra Modi held a meeting in Dehradun's Hotel Madhuban with top BJP leaders and bureaucrats from Gujarat regarding the crisis in Uttarakhand, a party worker, clearly impressed by the...

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Raj Jain, Politics’ Fall Guy

TK Arun28 June 2013, 11:44 AM IST So long as Indian democracy is funded by the proceeds of corruption , business will stay dirty Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die — the maxim spelt glory in the military context. It spells wastage...

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Kerry home message

Anoop Kohli28 June 2013, 11:52 AM IST Had it not been the Mother of all tragedies, and  the daily heart-breaking news from the Kedarnath shrine of rescues, and the challenges of more to come, the coverage of the US Secretary of State's...

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272: The 2-tier strategy to get there

Minhaz Merchant28 June 2013, 02:53 PM IST On two recent programmes – NDTV and TimesNow – I was consistently asked this question: but where are the allies? The debates were on the NDA's departing allies – the JD(U) principally – and how it made...

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A navigation guide for you in New Digital Age

John Cheeran27 June 2013, 11:24 AM IST Can you keep your privacy online? With the US National Security Agency's Prism programme snooping on social media networks to collect data, you have reasons to be highly sceptical. People who are not on...

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What do you do for a friend?

Indrani Bagchi27 June 2013, 11:27 AM IST What did you make of John Kerry's whirlwind run-through of the India-US strategic dialogue? "Well, we didn't expect much, so we were not disappointed" runs the dominant response in this city. On paper...

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BJP's bid to turn Muslim friendly!

Akhilesh Kumar Singh27 June 2013, 04:48 PM IST Their 17 years' bonhomie "rests in peace" notwithstanding Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has made a visible impact on BJP leaders. The BJP leadership seems heeding to Kumar's much hyped comment...

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One year on, women reap a bitter harvest in Egypt

Saumya Pant25 June 2013, 10:29 PM IST Much like their male counterparts, young women were part of the tour de force of the uprising that gave rise to the forces that created the Arab Spring. Women stood not only in defiance of brutal dictatorships,...

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Can we kill cancer before it kills us?

Shuvendu Sen26 June 2013, 10:22 AM IST According to literature, the first documented cases of cancer came from the Egyptian civilization. Egyptians are also credited for capturing time in their clepsydra, the hourglass predecessor. But like...

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Now a proposal from the right-wingers to rename Malabar Hills Ramnagari!

Prashant Panday26 June 2013, 10:30 AM IST The right-wing lobby, this time led by the MNS, but otherwise dominated by the BJP/Shiv Sena, has had another brainwave. It wants to rename Malabar Hills – probably one of India's proudest business addresses,...

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Do Muslim girls want to marry at 16?

John Cheeran25 June 2013, 01:20 PM IST Getting married still remains a big deal in India. Kerala is no exception. These days a few Malayalis do not marry at all, but prefer to be in live-in relationships. But this is not about them. It is about...

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Return of (& end of?) the priviligentsia?

Veeresh Malik25 June 2013, 01:32 PM IST   There are two online references to the term "priviligentsia" pertaining to the widely used Chinese term meaning the same thing as pertains to matters of the WaBenzi sort in India. One is by Rajiv...

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Rahul & Modi, Chalk & Cheese during crisis

Sharmila Ravinder25 June 2013, 02:10 PM IST The scenes from Uttarakhand have been nothing short of horrific. The mighty Ganges has literally swallowed everything in her path. Dark swirling waters ferociously gorged the innocent, those lucky...

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