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Blanchett’s children loved The Hobbit set
15 Dec 2012 5:30 AM ISTOscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett took her sons with her during the shooting of the fantasy film The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and says her...
The importance of being Kejriwal
6 Oct 2012 3:14 AM ISTMy sixth sense, that gut feeling, or call it by any other appropriate term of your choice, tells me that Arvind Kejriwal’s new political party will...
Nightmare of the Emergency
28 Sept 2012 4:03 AM ISTWhilst reading this book focusing on the life and times of RahulGandhi – Decoding Rahul Gandhi, I have been sitting and thinking rather aloud – what...
Storms in their lives
13 Sept 2012 4:40 AM ISTThe latest documentary of New Delhi-based film-maker Shubhradeep Chakravorty, aptly titled, After the Storm, focuses on the stories of seven former...
The zone of forgetfulness
31 Aug 2012 7:52 AM ISTThough I have been writing on the Alzheimer’s Disorder (AD) ever since my father was struck by this disorder and died in 1996, after battling with it...
Leaders missing on every front
23 Aug 2012 9:11 AM ISTThe very fact that Baba Ramdev could attract crowds is not because he is some sort of a leader but because of the one underlying factor which is that...
Flowing against the tide
10 Aug 2012 8:16 AM ISTSo Team Anna couldn’t sustain the movement. Without clinging on to clichés, one can say that its not easy to flow against the tide but there are...
Farewell to a fighter
27 July 2012 6:24 AM ISTSIGNS OF THE TIMESAs the president of India, Pranab Mukherjee, takes charge, I have to request him to take charge of at least one family of this...
Babies, pirates and a superstar
20 July 2012 5:42 AM ISTSigns Of The Times Some dark realities emerged this entire week. In fact, my stomach churned as reports were splashed that a mother had to sell her...
Gritty woman, greedy MLAs
12 July 2012 6:51 AM ISTSIGNS OF THE TIMESLast week’s assault on Rumi Nath - Congress MLA From Assam’s Borkhola constituency, reeks of the unthinkable. In this day and age a...
Silence of the lambs
4 July 2012 8:09 AM ISTDidn’t really know there existed an ‘International Day In Support of Victims of Torture’. Well, did come to know of this when the day was observed...
In a state of nowhere
29 Jun 2012 6:45 AM ISTSitting in the midst of this terrible heat and dust, all that I’m somehow able to mutter and murmur is ‘only a couple of liveable months… the rest of...