Good news behind rising food prices?

Jug Suraiya31 October 2013, 02:16 PM IST Is there good news behind rising prices of food? Perhaps.Who's responsible for food prices which keep going higher and higher and refuse to come down, no matter what? Hoarders and blackmarketeers are...

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Letter from a Gathering of Educators

Meeta Sengupta31 October 2013, 11:13 AM IST An old fashioned letter to all of you educators   Greetings from Doha. I hope this finds you in the best of health, the highest teacher attendance levels and the best student achievement levels...

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Rajmohan Gandhi: “Sardar Patel belongs to all of India”

Minhaz Merchant31 October 2013, 02:50 PM IST Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel died 63 years ago. His legacy is monumental. Apart from unifying over 500 self-governing princely states into a nation, Patel was one of the two men – Jawaharlal Nehru was...

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The bogus crowds at Modi’s rallies….

Prashant Panday29 October 2013, 09:01 AM IST The media is impressed with the turnout at Modi's rallies and believes that this represents actual support for him and his party. Modi's PR set-up has again managed to con the media. Because the numbers...

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Radio GaGa - or, story of Onions

Veeresh Malik29 October 2013, 01:09 AM IST For the last few weeks we have been doing very well without onions at home. And also seeking out restaurants which serve food that does not use onions. So much so that while on a tran journey from Delhi...

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Dawood in dressing room: Are you shocked?

Rajesh Kalra29 October 2013, 12:19 PM IST That big money and interest from mafia and politicians has turned cricket into anything but a sport, is well known. There is so much money riding on it that players have become mere gladiators, who must...

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The realm of informal power

Santosh Desai27 October 2013, 07:32 PM IST Increasingly, Narendra Modi's speeches write themselves; every time Rahul Gandhi says something, Modi gets fodder for his next speech. Rahul Gandhi's comments have a strange disconnected quality about...

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Needed: EC code on coalitions

V Raghunathan27 October 2013, 11:49 AM IST Few of us are likely to disagree that in recent years, the Supreme Court (SC) and the Election Commission (EC) have been among our more performing institutions. In myriad ways, the two institutions...

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An eccentric list of rare gems by Manna Dey

Avijit Ghosh27 October 2013, 05:57 PM IST The singing career of Manna Dey spanned over six decades. He sang dozens of chartbusters. But he also gave voice to a lot of numbers that did not get the kind of popular acclaim they perhaps deserved....

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NaMo and the lotus

Jug Suraiya26 October 2013, 12:18 PM IST Will the 2014 elections see a battle of flowers, a battle between the Nehruvian rose, as represented by Jawaharlal Nehru's great-grandson, and the BJP's lotus, as represented by Narendra Modi, whom the...

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Manna Dey - His Ten Best Songs

Abhijit Bhaduri26 October 2013, 07:20 PM IST Manna Dey began his career when he sang a duet with Suraiya in the film Tamanna in 1942. A year later he followed with his first solo "Gayi tu gayi Seeta sati" from the film Ram Rajya....

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Around the world in photos: October 20 - 26

Team TOI26 October 2013, 07:30 PM IST Every week, we bring you a roundup of the best photos from around the world. Let us know which is your favorite in the the comments section and check again next week for new images. Pakistani boys, who...

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Picasso and Warhol prints rub shoulders at Sotheby’s

Uma Nair25 October 2013, 03:46 PM IST When the world's finest artist Picasso explores into the art world's myriad moods he comes up with the fascinating world of Prints - and at Sotheby's is an exemplification of the artist as explorer' and...

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Have we flogged the C word to death?

Pritish Nandy25 October 2013, 03:48 PM IST Is there a politician around, any politician apart from Arvind Kejriwal, who sees corruption as an election issue? I am not counting Anna. He is a social worker and, in many ways, our conscience. But...

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Stock market rally is because of Narendra Modi. Oh really??

Prashant Panday25 October 2013, 03:49 PM IST Chidambaram must be squirming. Poor man, he's been slogging it out for the last year and a half, trying to get important decisions taken. Now that the stock market has started responding, here comes...

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The difference between the Gujarat and anti-Sikh riots….

Prashant Panday24 October 2013, 08:14 AM IST While watching another inane debate on a news channel last night, I was appalled by the attempt made by the anchor and the BJP spokesperson to compare the anti-Muslim Gujarat pogrom of 2002 with the...

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ISI-terrorist meet, a Pak propaganda exercise

SD Pradhan24 October 2013, 12:24 AM IST The reported meeting of the ISI Brigadier and terrorists on 20th September was an exercise planned by Pak authorities to project that political leaders and Pak Army/ISI are trying to restrain terrorists,...

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Is RTI really a Congress creation?

Rajesh Kalra24 October 2013, 01:04 PM IST As the crucial state elections and the big general elections draw closer,  the political parties are losing no opportunity to claim credit for what they have done and increasingly also for what...

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India's Big Leap to 2018

Veeresh Malik23 October 2013, 09:50 AM IST   What I really liked was the fact that this debate was moderated by ex-Civil Servant and ex-Main Stream Media journo friends of mine who (1) kept their questions and interjections brief as well...

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Krrish 3

Meeta Kabra23 October 2013, 11:48 AM IST It might sound like I'm joking, but I am really looking forward to see the special effects in Krrish 3. The trailer indicates that they are done pretty well. Even if they have been copied from all over...

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