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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 2008 Malegaon blasts: NIA under fire from former prosecutor as it seeks to drop MCOCA charges
Photo Credit: IANS 17.9K Total Views “It is a political move,” former special counsel for National Investigation Agency, Rohini Salian said, when asked for a response to the NIA informing a special court that it intended to drop charges under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act against the 11 accused in the 2008 […]
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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 Connecting everyone to the internet won’t solve the world’s development problems
Photo Credit: Noah Seelam/AFP 29.7K Total Views By 9.30am today I will have skyped Malawi, emailed Ghana, Facebooked Nepal, paid a bill online and used the satnav on my mobile phone. It feels a long time since we first got colour TV at home and, years later, when I accessed the internet using a dial-up […]
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February 6, 2016 What’s going on at Yahoo?
Photo Credit: Omar Torres/AFP 12.6K Total Views Spare a thought for the CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer. Nearly four years on the job, the ailing internet giant is still struggling to deliver a credible path to growth. And following the US$4.3 billion loss the company reported for the year in its latest results, the Yahoo […]
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February 6, 2016 Four days of fear among African students, months of mistrust among Bengaluru residents
Photo Credit: Nayantara Narayanan 14K Total Views African students studying at Acharya Institutes in Bengaluru are still wary of stepping out of their hostels and rented accommodations. Four days after an accident involving a Sudanese driver and a subsequent mob attack on a group of Tanzanians, students at the college from Congo, Malawi, Namibia and […]
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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 Through the artist’s eyes: Life after devastation and the politics of identity in Nepal
Photo Credit: manishhorizon.com 8.7K Total Views Last year was a difficult one for Nepal. An earthquake in April killed over 8,000 people and caused widespread devastation. A few months later, the decision of Nepal’s top political parties to push through a Constitution after years of wrangling led to massive protests by marginalised groups like Madhesis […]