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Behind the evil faces

Mogambo. Gabbar. Dr Dang. Kancha Cheena: through the decades, Bollywood?s bad men have captured popular imagination.

Analysing communal violence

Anand Patwardhan?s brave film In The Name of God has a scene where the court-appointed priest of the chabutara at…

Drugs and Shame

Drugs, alcohol and gambling are three vices that have ruined the lives of many, starting from filmstars to sportsmen.

Water stressed

Punjab, also known as the foodgrain bowl of the country, grows about 11 tonnes of foodgrain from one hectare per…

Learning from skiing

This article comes hot off the cool slopes of Chamonix where I have had some very interesting parallels drawn up…

Theatre of dreams

Puppetry is a centuries-old tradition that has been evolving continuously.

Queen bee syndrome

?In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman,? remarked Margaret…

The two cow syndrome

Some version or the other of the two cow classification may have landed in your inbox at some stage, but…

An inconvenient, glaring truth

Mushtaq stopped running and turned to help Tabrez, who had fallen to the ground, bleeding, when he heard more shots…

The curious case of West Bengal

Passive Revolution in West Bengal: 1977-2011 was on my desk at a time when 22-year-old student activist Sudipto Gupta?s death…

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