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Ban The Bandh
28 Aug 2008, 0010 hrs IST
The illegal practice of bringing life to a halt must stop.

Country's Roads
28 Aug 2008, 0008 hrs IST
State of city roads indicates widespread corruption.

 

The
28 Aug 2008, 0013 hrs IST,V N Bali
The musicality of sound produced by strings is incomplete without the sound lent by the sympathetic unstruck strings.

Knitting together to love and heal
27 Aug 2008, 0025 hrs IST,MARGUERITE THEOPHIL
Shawl is not only a gift to the receiver, but also of unimagined value to the giver.

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Letters to the Editor   Blog

Readerspeak: India should take stern action against Pakistan's misadventures
26 Aug 2008, 2119 hrs IST
India needs to give up its timid approach and act sternly against Pakistan's misdeeds, says a reader.

Readerspeak: Farooq Abdullah shouldn't play with public sentiments
7 Aug 2008, 0720 hrs IST
It is high time politicians like Farooq Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti stop playing mind games, says a reader.

 

Four years of UPA govt
22 May 2008, 1202 hrs IST
The UPA has managed to keep together all the coalition partners except TRS (Telangana) which left midway.

UPAs terror slumber
22 May 2008, 1202 hrs IST
The attacks prove that the government lacks a coherent nationwide strategy to deal with internal acts of terror.

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My Times , My Voice

Will you buy eco-friendly Ganesha idols this year?
28 Aug 2008, 1509 hrs IST

Eco-friendly idols can help prevent the damage idols made of plaster of Paris cause to the environment. But will people buy them?

Are Gujaratis India's biggest ambassadors on foreign shores?
28 Aug 2008, 1508 hrs IST

In US alone, economic clout of Gujaratis extends to billions of dollars, with them playing a key roles in retail businesses, diamond and motel industry.

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Interviews   Sunday Specials

'Krishna is to be adored through singing, dancing'
27 Aug 2008, 0020 hrs IST
Ottawa-based Harsha V Dehejia is a physician, a professor of Indian Studies at Carleton University, and the author of several scholarly books.

Q&A: 'Home is a key theme in Brick Lane'
25 Aug 2008, 0000 hrs IST
The film 'Brick Lane', directed by Sarah Gavron, unfolds the life of Bangladeshi immigrants in Britain through the emotional journey of a Bangladeshi woman.

 

  • A tale of two Tibets: Tibet's no longer just a celeb cause. Protests this year saw ordinary folks re-energise the 'resistance'.

  • 'Winning a gold is not impossible': Abhinav Bindra: I am the way I am. Plus, it won't be right to compare cricket and shooting - cricket is a much more aggressive game while shooting is all about internalizing everything.

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Subverse  

Our PC is showing
27 Aug 2008, 0029 hrs IST,Jug Suraiya
Like stock markets, which keep going up and down, PC (politically correct) is a highly changeable index: yesterday's totem could well be today's taboo.

Gays and democracy
25 Aug 2008, 0000 hrs IST,Jug Suraiya
The statute of the Indian Penal Code which makes homosexuality a crime is a fossilised relic of Victorian Britain.

 

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Columnists
24 Aug 2008, 0245 hrs IST,Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar
S A Aiyar: Can high food prices win votes?

In urban areas, high food prices will increase poverty by 1.6 percentage points. But in rural areas, poverty will fall 1.5 percentage points.

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