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 11:41 | 23/Aug/2006 |
| India, a million mutinies, still | |
| Nine years ago, when India celebrated 50 years of independence, I joined hundreds of other girls from Sophia College, where I was studying then, and dressed in the tricolour, we marched from Breach Candy to Azad Maidan, carrying flags, singing patriotic songs and revelling in the spirit of freedom. When I look back, it's possibly the best morning I...
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| 12:52 | 16/Aug/2006 |
| Here's to a resurgent India! | |
| In the ancient land of tradition that is India, 60 years is considered a milestone, a second innings in one’s life -- to employ a contemporary metaphor. In some communities, on the father reaching 60 years of age children perform their parents’ second wedding ceremony, where the marital vows are reaffirmed, since he is believed to have set out on a...
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| Raja Sen | 18:39 | 19/Nov/2007 |
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| Surreal lunacy with a fun filmmaker |
| When you write a negative review, there is almost always backlash. Most of you who have read me before do thus realise I'm not the most popular man in Bollywoodland -- to say nothing of Rediff's messageboards -- and there are filmmakers who loathe me, having taken a review too personally.Anyway, last week I wrote a column about Anurag Kashyap and h...
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| ganesh nadar | 04:36 | 1/Oct/2007 |
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| City: Panickanadarkudieruppu
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| annual day and temple festival |
| The village temple festival and the school annual day The quarterly exams were over but holidays were not declared. The school had to celebrate its annual day on October 4th. The children would be practicing dance and drama. At least the selected ones, the rest would just laze around and play games.They needed two chief guests for the annual show. ...
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