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Sab kuch dikhta hai

Tweet As I’ve said here before, I’m a fan of the first season of Bigg Boss, which I watched raptly, even as I questioned my own voyeurism. True, the shock value brought me in. But what compelled

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Let Them Eat Cake

Tweet I read in the paper that Vijay Mallya was actually worried about something. That’s certainly news! And a relief for those who were wondering whether anyone could truly be so callous as to ig

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Old (boys) skool

Tweet By the time this appears, Karan Johar’s new film, Student of the Year will be out and probably have been declared a box office hit, endorsing Ram Gopal’s remark, made with his customary af

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Curing with kindness

Tweet Three-month old Ahuti Joshi died of cardio-respiratory failure brought on after she had been severely battered by her mother, who was young, frustrated and possibly suffering from post-partum

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A Single Shade of Grey

Tweet Madhur Bhandarkar is the modern day Mr Manohar Kahaniyan and generates film upon film about the venal worlds of seeming modernity and advancement which lead nice Indian girls into a hell of th

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English vinglish

Tweet The Karnataka government will be converting the Mysore house where the writer RK Narayan lived into a memorial. Several Kannada writers, among them DA Shankar, G Venkatasubbaiah, M Chidanandam

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All aboard the Sedition Express

Tweet With the media excitement around the arrest, defiance and subsequent release of Aseem Trivedi I am expecting a kind of sedition chic to hit the runways soon. Aseem Trivedi’s freedom of expre

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Student of the Year

Tweet I think Teacher’s Day is a great idea and I’m quite proud that we thought this one up. I was one of those socially awkward, permanently mortified nerds who just did not fit in. I was saved

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In memory of the past

Tweet Recently, Kolhapur’s Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Chitrapat Mahamandal protested against Lata Mangeshkar for selling the studio founded by the pioneering Marathi filmmaker Bhalji Pendharkar. Pend

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keeping it in the closet

Tweet Sunday, as all workaholics know, is not a day for snoozing, but for spring cleaning. My father loved sorting linen cupboards, grocery store-rooms, wardrobes and cluttered drawers on Sundays.

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