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40 Years On, 'The Passenger' Offers Lessons In Distance
In a conversation with Renee Epstein in 1975, Michelangelo Antonioni, the Italian virtuoso brings up dramatist Luigi Pirandello. The playwright was once asked, "Why does that character behave like...
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Calling People With Disabilities 'Divyangjan' Is A Cruel Joke
The term "disability" is accepted universally and has created a culture of awareness which allows various communities and agencies to work towards common goals. Rather than focusing on changing the...
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Dear Arijit Singh, Your Grovelling Apology To Salman Is An Insult To Your Talent
So Mr Arijit Singh, you posted a detailed apology to Mr Salman Khan (the only detail it didn't have was what you were apologizing for!) and then deleted it after it was widely shared and circulated....
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Meet The Stylists Behind The Sheen Of Our Favourite Stars
Your favourite actor may have that perfect look, but she has her stylist to thank Five years ago, celebrity stylist Ami Patel was shopping for accessories at a store in London's Oxford Street. She...
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Closing The Garbage Gap
Nowadays, when you look at company websites -- especially large, multinational corporations -- you expect to see a section devoted to their CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) division. In the late...
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25 Places To Visit In Mumbai Before Your Kid Turns 12 (Part 2)
By Priya Fonseca If you're a true-blue, born-and-brought-up-in-Mumbai person, chances are that your folks or school made sure you paid homage to every typical sightseeing spot in the city. Our kids,...
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Everything You Need To Know About Tax Saves Via NPS
Taxpayers are always on the lookout for legitimate ways to save more tax. While section 80C continues to remain a favourite, there are ways to increase your tax saves further. Have you contributed to...
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We May Not Be The Urban Poor But Our Struggles Are Not 'Stupid'
Yes, I get it. It's so easy and, dare I say, fun to call the younger generation "entitled" and "stupid". I think humanity has been doing that since the beginning. I bet the generation that learned how...
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Nominating This Man As India's Next President Could Make Modi The Next Vajpayee
Prime Minister Narendra Modi with N R Narayana Murthy (Photo courtesy: PIB) Recently, Amar Singh, a once-flamboyant politician who is now lying low, dropped a bomb in his usual style, saying, "Prime...
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Why Companies Setting Up in India Should Skip The Metro Cities
India has emerged as an attractive destination for multinationals. Any company looking for growth and expansion of their business cannot afford to ignore this country, but the infrastructural...
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6 Magical Experiences You Cannot Afford To Miss In Positano
In the 1950s, when John Steinbeck visited this gem along the Italian coastline he wrote an essay for Harper's Bazaar. "Positano bites deep. It is a dream place that isn't quite real when you are there...
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Why Pakistani Films Should Give Cities Like Lahore And Karachi A Starring Role
Courtesy: Matteela Films A few months ago, there was a clamour within the Pakistani film fraternity to choose an appropriate term to address the cinema. While some wanted to use the word Lollywood,...
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Weaving A Champa Chronicle
My last visit to Champa, in Chhattisgarh, was during the Navratri days. A great time to be there, what with the whole village coming alive in a festive mood, with kirtans and all-night jagarans...
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Can The West Indies Recover Their Lost Cricketing Glory?
When the West Indies won the T20 cricket world cup in April, it was a moment of joy for every cricket lover, even as England's Ben Stokes, who got hit for four consecutive sixes, burst into tears....
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The Clarity Of Dying
My father is dying. I watch him in his hospital bed, his face alternately contorted in pain and peacefully asleep. He has lost 10 kilos in the last year. The needles leave dents in his skin and every...
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Don't Hide Your Wounds If You Want To Heal
Ecstasy is only out of agony -- and the deeper the agony, the deeper the ecstasy will be; total the agony, total will be the ecstasy. Everything has to be paid for. For ecstasy, we have to pay in...
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Votes Matter, Voters Do Not
"Democracy" in India continues to be severely impaired. It is mercifully loaned to the citizens only to cast a vote during elections, but at all other times "democracy" remains a mere throwaway phrase,...
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Bar-Hopping In Bangalore: 13 Indiranagar Hot Spots You Must Check Out
There's no dearth of pubs in Bangalore. The swaying music and laidback ambience add to the experience when you are in the garden city. However, it'd be an understatement to claim that Indiranagar has...
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20 Signs That You Don't Give A Hoot About Fashion
To a woman who is a fashionista, my wardrobe might look a tad boring. That does not mean that my lifestyle is! In my growing up years, between books, hobbies, friends, family, a budding career and...
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The Indian Man's All-Too-Public Love Affair With Boxers
Not so long ago, the Indian Aunty discovered an unhindered, unclasped and drawstring-free existence in her nightie. In this stifling world of patriarchy that's constantly trying to suffocate her, she...
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