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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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The Housing Woes Of Lord Jagannath
Everything about us Oriyas is connected to Lord Jagannath. The Lord is a highly humanized deity. He brushes his teeth, takes baths, changes his clothes umpteen times. He falls ill after an extended...
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Why CSR Is As Vital To A Company As Sales Or Marketing
This happened 10 years ago when I was heading corporate communications for a company, and CSR or Corporate Social Responsibility was slowly attempting to penetrate our plans. The CEO said, "We need to...
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Why Sound IT Systems Will Be The Backbone Of A Successful GST Rollout In India
The Goods and Services Tax (GST) proposed to be introduced in India has been designed as a destination-based consumption tax which proposes a unified tax structure for the entire country. Since this...
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What The Decline Of The West Could Mean For The World
Here's the bald but axiomatic truth. The West has shaped the modern world. Be it through colonialism or/and the marriage between capitalist modernity and colonialism, the West has left an indelible...
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Brexit Or Not, The EU Needs To Make Itself More Competitive
Too many cooks spoil the broth, and this seems particularly true in the case of the European Union (EU). The Brexit debate, on whether or not Britain will leave the European Union, has raised questions...
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The Best Way To Become Nobody
We live in a world where you've got to a) be yourself, b) be different, c) be extraordinary. Whatever you do, you've got to be somebody. Run of the mill won't do. We're constantly searching for an...
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They Kill The Insects, But What Are They Doing To You?
Every kid has heard his or her mom order them to eat their vegetables (as a vegetarian, it was either that or nothing for me!). Even in school, we were taught that vegetables are an important source of...
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Can Iran Match Lifting Of Sanctions With Freedom For Its Own People?
The Iranian revolution of 1979 ended 2,500 years of uninterrupted monarchical rule and ever since then, the country has been hit with a series of sanctions that have had a huge impact on it...
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How To Take Over A Country In 10 Easy Steps
So how does one take over a country in the 21st century? It's a lot simpler than you might think. The great European banker, Mayer Rothschild, summed it up beautifully when he said, "Let me issue and...
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