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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 […]
