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World Cup

Don’t be Dumb, Sports and Politics Go Hand in Hand

It’s one year to the day when India won the World Cup, beating Sri Lanka in the final. And while the whole country is busy celebrating, trying to figure out… Read more »

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The Delhi Summit and Building BRICS for a New World Order

The fourth BRICS summit being held in New Delhi has invited a lot of optimism and curiosity from various corners of the world, albeit a trifle bit scepticism among the… Read more »

Sachin's 100th hundred

Ramblings of a Sachin Fan: 100 Hundreds is Just a Number, Not the Final Destination

It was a day of introspection and honestly I didn’t think much about the game (India vs Bangladesh) as I had work and safely thought India would win the match…. Read more »

Vidya Balan

Oh Kolkata: Sujoy Ghosh’s Kahaani Does Justice to the City of Joy

Reaching the hall slightly late, I missed the opening but what followed for the next 100 minutes, or slightly more, left me gasping for more. Yes, Kahaani is a film… Read more »

Puri beach

Lens, Lights and Action

Amit Sahoo is just an 18-year-old who discovered that he liked photography just one and half years back. Nothing much has changed since then. He still holds his first digital… Read more »

Agneepath

Agneepath: Remake Lacks Fire and Vijay Still Needs More Work to be Done

Okay, so the K-Jo take on the chronicles of the iconic Vijay Dinanath Chauhan (pura naam, mind you) is out and is raking up big bucks at the box office… Read more »

Mumbai

Mumbai: Shorn of the Glitz and Glam, a City of Guts and Glory

Yeh hai Bombay meri jaan. It’s been 45-odd years since the film CID hit the screens and Johnny Walker crooned the life and times of Bombay. That’s a generation, and… Read more »

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Didi Sees Red over Anti-Mamata FB Campaign, Talks of Stringent Steps

In Indian politics, megalomania comes in different packages. For someone like J. Jayalalitha, it’s about amassing wealth, for Bal Thackeray, it’s becoming Lord of Mumbai and for Mamata Banerjee, it’s… Read more »

clown fest

At the Clown Fest, Capturing People Who Make a Business Out of Laughter

Jeena yahan, marna yahan, iske siva jaana kahan… Remember Raj Kapoor in Mera Naam Joker, making us laugh and cry at the same time with the antics and life story… Read more »

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Shoaib Lends Perfect Marketing Spin to Memoirs with Controversial Comments

I must say the title of Shoaib Akhtar’s book is apt as controversy is his middle name. Akhtar has been the most controversial cricketer around in the recent times. No… Read more »