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February 6, 2016 How Saudi Arabia’s grip on oil prices could bring Russia to its knees
Photo Credit: Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters 27.3K Total Views When Saudi Arabia led an OPEC decision to end a restraint put on oil production in November 2014, it marked the beginning of a new era in oil economics. It has given us a tumbling oil price, prompted huge losses and job cuts at oil firms like BP […]
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February 6, 2016 A rebuttal to Rajiv Malhotra, by an ‘elite leftist goon activist’
31.1K Total Views Wherever Rajiv Malhotra goes, controversy unfailingly follows. The self-taught social scientist who is an important ideologue for the political right delivered a talk at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai on January 29, and it quickly devolved into a hail of accusations at his audience. Since then, US-based Malhotra and […]
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February 6, 2016 Delighted, charmed and horrified: Steve McCurry’s vibrant photos of India (and Indians)
Photo Credit: Photograph by Steve McCurry (courtesy Phaidon/Roli Books) 59.6K Total Views “There’s a lot of people here.” This was Steve McCurry’s first thought when he arrived in India for the first time in 1978 with just a few clothes and a bag of film. Over the next three decades, the celebrated American photographer returned […]
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February 6, 2016 Yoga guru Ramdev’s Patanjali is in a four-front battle with India’s consumer goods giants
Photo Credit: Money Sharma/AFP 20.8K Total Views Last week, Patanjali Ayurved, a company promoted by yoga guru Baba Ramdev, took a big bite of the share held by American multinational, Colgate-Palmolive, in the Indian toothpaste market. Patanjali’s share of the toothpaste pie stood at 4.5% and is poised to grow into double digits through 2016, […]
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February 6, 2016 Drama The director of ‘Million Dollar Arm’ sails into the high seas.
10K Total Views In Craig Gillespie’s imagining of the true events of 1952, you feel the snowy, stormy winter day with a sea and waves so harsh that they split not one, but two oil tankers in half. The Finest Hours recreates what is considered the greatest small boat rescue mission in American Coast Guard […]
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February 6, 2016 Detective Feluda was Satyajit Ray’s way of coping with the nightmare called Calcutta
19.4K Total Views Ray’s antipathy towards having Feluda drawn into contemporary political and social settings has a deeper root: he didn’t like what he saw happening around him. This bhadrolok abhorred the breakdown of reason, the flood of chaos, unthinking violence and unintelligent criminal acts – even if he had separate problems with middle-class hypocrisy […]
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February 6, 2016 The latest adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks novel is reliably mawkish.
13.4K Total Views The world is probably divided into those readers (mostly women) who devour Nicholas Sparks’s novels and daydream about those ruggedly handsome, slightly flawed but ever-so charming men who are perfect boyfriends and husbands, and those who don’t. Full disclosure: I fall in the latter category. In The Choice, Benjamin Walker (who could […]
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February 6, 2016 Why Nepal’s poorest people are risking their livelihoods by blockading the border
Photo Credit: Anumeha Yadav 16.6K Total Views A broken road, with brief patches of asphalt punctuating potholes filled with water from the previous night’s rain, led to the ancient temple town of Janakpur in Nepal. Revered as the site of the mythological kingdom of Mithila, the birthplace of Sita (or Janaki), the town attracts thousands […]
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February 6, 2016 The sequel can’t dislodge memories of the original, but the action is spectacular.
13K Total Views Sunny Deol is back, and this time he is throwing punches from the director’s chair. In Ghayal Once Again, Deol stars in and directs the sequel to Raj Kumar Santoshi’s vigilante drama from 1990, which featured the bulky actor as a boxer who kills a slimy businessman in full view. Ghayal’s Balwant […]
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February 6, 2016 As garbage continues to pile up in East Delhi, a lesson on how to better manage our waste
Photo Credit: IANS 14.4K Total Views For the past week, thousands of hapless East Delhi residents have had to wade through piles of garbage to get anywhere. The municipal workers entrusted with keeping the area clean are on strike because nobody has bothered to pay them. Even if residents manage to skirt the waste, they […]
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February 3, 2016 Business Books Are Virtually Worthless Without This
I love reading business books. You love reading business books. But all that reading is nearly worthless if you don’t apply what you’ve learned. And unless you’re writing something down, you’re not applying most of what you learn when you read the latest book by, say, Gary Vaynerchuk, Jim Collins, Clayton Christensen or even […]
