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Should Fiction Be Factually Accurate?
Edouard Manet's painting A Bar at the Folies-Bergere has been successfully casting an eerie effect on its viewers since the time it was painted in 1882. It's not an image of a graveyard or a haunted...
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Whatever Happened To Our Good-ol' Agony Aunt?
My fiancée is pregnant. And I've been sleeping with her sister. She's also pregnant. But I'm not ready for kids. Should I ditch them both? Remember hiding a magazine in your shirt and reading the 'Your...
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Podcast: Vikram Doctor On The Rise And Fall Of Old Monk
Old Monk is one of those rare brands that is synonymous with its category. When you think of rum the first thing that probably comes to mind is its classic, textured-glass bottle. Old Monk has a loyal...
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No Work, No Pay For MPs? Will Government Show The Way?
When the Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation "suggested" that Parliamentarians should have their pay docked for disrupting Parliament, it received widespread media attention. The view has...
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Seeing Stories Of Hope In War-Torn Northern Myanmar
In the north of Myanmar a war is still going on. Since 2011 reports estimate that at least 100,000 people have been displaced and over 364 villages have been partially or wholly abandoned. Over the...
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Why The RBI Should Have The Final Word On Monetary Policy
The objective of monetary policy, as defined in the revised Indian Financial Code dated 23 July 2015, is to achieve price stability while striking a balance with the objective of the Central Government...
View Article'Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation': An Emphatic Continuation Of The 'MI'...
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie, is the fifth installment in the popular Mission: Impossible film series. The movie stars Tom Cruise, who reprises his...
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It's High Time Bollywood Acknowledged Cancer Survivors
There are classics. There are superhits. And then there is Anand (1971). The Hrishikesh Mukherjee film, which needs no introduction, is a unique movie about Life -- what else will a movie that starts...
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The Importance Of 'Maya'
Maya ad Infinitum Deeper than gravity she anchors earth to the womb, she is the journey fifty million women could not make through life. More will be trashed; flesh ridden life-less. Fragmented after...
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What The Monetary Policy Committee Needs To Be Effective
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan delivered his bimonthly monetary policy review this week, keeping the key lending rates of India's central bank unchanged. But the debate on the...
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Yakub Memon And Selective Justice
With the execution of the only man sentenced to death for the 12 March 1993 Mumbai blasts, the families of the 257 victims, as well as those who were injured, must feel some sense of having got...
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Dear Mark Zuckerberg, India Doesn't Need You To Play Messiah
We love you for a number of reasons. Not the least of which is you helping us stay connected to our ridiculously large extended families, reminding us of birthdays of forgotten old aunts and giving us...
View ArticleA Call To Support Irom Sharmila And The People Of Manipur
Co-authored By Narayani Syal Anand. On the 15 August, while the world's largest democracy celebrates its independence; while the tricolour adorns the Red Fort and stirring speeches are made from the...
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'Baahubali' Fan Fiction: What We Can Expect To See In 'Baahubali: The...
The ending of Baahubali: The Beginning left us on the edge of our seats. It was a masterstroke by the magician S.S. Rajamouli to let the viewers crave for more. The following plot has been sketched...
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Explaining My God
Who is my God? I am asked. It's a question I have never been faced with before and clearly, I am stumped. It's never an easy task to explain your faith. Of course, indicating your religion with a...
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Why We Need To Stop Telling Women They're Equal To Men
The biggest disservice we do to women is telling them that they are equal to men. We fail to prepare them for their reality and, by doing so, we set them up for a lifetime of struggle, disappointment...
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Life, Death And Everything Else
It rained in Mahim on the July 30, 2015. The ubiquitous Chacha -- the kind that calls you Beta and uses chaste Persian words like Parvardigar (god) -- who sells cigarettes outside our office, put the...
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Where's The Romance In Music Today?
It is almost a ritual. After a deadly dose of negativity emanating from the news, I listen to a couple of old songs before calling it a day. Mellifluous voice of Rafi, and dulcet notes of Lata ensure...
View ArticleWhy A Monetary Policy Committee Is The Best Decision-Making Structure
Much debate has been generated with the revised draft of the Indian Financial Code, which has proposed an organisational change in decision-making with the introduction of a Monetary Policy Committee...
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Pause For Thought: Why The Arrival Matters As Much As The Journey
We venerate youth today, and worship milestones and achievements. All very well, but a recent trip to a place of worship of the old-fashioned sort had me thinking that we really need to pause in order...
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