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Victory Is Just A Number
Poaching, the BJP avers, is never its business. Yet the party won’t say how it is to muster the numbers it lacks.
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May 28, 2018
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Ping-Pongology: Table For Ten
The story behind the gradual, gratifying turn of Indian table tennis
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May 28, 2018
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I'd Make Sanju Even If I Hadn't Worked With Sanjay
They collapsed the boundaries between mainstream entertainers and meaningful cinema much earlier in the day and, released at crucial post-lib junctures, came to almost define a 21st century national cinema—passing muster with the masses and the classes alike. Just four films—Munna Bhai MBBS (2003), Lage Raho Munna Bhai (2006), 3 Idiots (2009) and PK (2014)—make Nagpur-born director Rajkumar Hirani one of the finest filmmakers of his generation. The 55-year-old auteur is now ready with his next, Sanju, a biopic depicting the turbulent life of Bollywood’s enfant terrible, Sanjay Dutt. With Ranbir Kapoor in the lead, the film, due for release on June 29, may well be the master filmmaker’s litmus test, as he has made a foray into the unfamiliar and dicey terrain of biopics with a movie on the life of somebody he has known professionally and personally for years. In conversation with Giridhar Jha, Hirani spells out the reasons behind making the biopic, dismissing the charge that he has made it to glorify his actor-friend, known for his chequered life and career. Excerpts from the interview:
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May 28, 2018
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On The Board In Testing Times
Pushed by WADA, the national anti-doping agency seeks cricketers’ samples. But BCCI hides behind the ICC Code.
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January 29, 2018
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All Those Colours Beyond Bling
Once again, glamour is not the sole yardstick for the success of an ­actress in Bollywood
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January 29, 2018
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Indo-Pak Talks: So Where Were We?
After what seemed like an intractable chill, India and Pak get to the talks-table again.
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December 21, 2015
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Starry-Eyed At The House Of Reels
The big screen. Up there dreams are built and spilt, lives are lived, loved and lost and all of us are along for the ride.
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January 11, 2016
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Pathankot Attack: Would The Army Have Handled It Better?
Did the NSA’s ‘civilian’ NSG botch up the Pathankot operation? Would the army have handled it better? With the NSG out of its depth, the army was called in to deliver the final punch.
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January 18, 2016
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Kitchen Confidential: Five Star Experience At Home
Bring the five-star experience home. Gourmet savants are now bringing their business to the family kitchen.
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January 18, 2016
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Koramangala: The Startup Universe
Bandra of Bangalore, GK-I of Delhi, that’s Koramangala. This is startup universe, the hub of ideas, inspiration and all the action.
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January 25, 2016
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A Clowning Glory: An Alternative Healing Method
A few doctors are bringing an alternative healing method to town.
5 min |
February 08, 2016
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Feel the Bern Yet?
In Donald Trump season, here comes a wildcard: a plodding, avowed socialist!
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February 15, 2016
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Narendra Modi, Stuck In Abraham's Triangle!
Modi is caught between a military alliance and crucial oil diplomacy in West Asia.
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February 22, 2016
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Arvind Kejriwal's Jack-In-The-Box Street Cred Intact, A Year Down
A year down, a battle-scarred Arvind Kejriwal survives, with his jack-in-the-box street cred intact.
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February 22, 2016
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Divide And Rue
The mob is suddenly everywhere: not just on the streets, but on the TV, in our minds. Is this a rebirth of the nation, or is something going horribly wrong?
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March 07, 2016
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Divided They Pinprick
The BJP ought to be pinned down to the ground. Yet the Opposition watches, and waits
6 min |
March 07, 2016
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His Other Chariot Is An Alpha Romeo 8C
Classic motors are a sight to behold, and more Indians are in their hopeless thrall than ever
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March 21, 2016
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Can Modi Sarkar Pass The Great Urban IQ Test?
It began with a scintillating vision—urban utopias going by the spiffy name ‘Smart Cities’. But is the focus all wrong? Is the model elitist? Many questions abound.
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March 28, 2016
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Vijay Mallya- Politicians Who Backed Him
Mallya cadged loans and hedged around law with help from politicians.
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March 28, 2016
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Ghosts In Bengal Have New Admirers Now
Ghosts in Bengal were literary or underground. They’ve new admirers now.
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April 04, 2016
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Is The Congress, BJP Without The Lotus?
Is the Congress nothing but the BJP without the Lotus? Despite holding the secular of saffron banner, time and again it has faced the soft Hindutva charge. Such as now.
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April 04, 2016
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Four Shades Of Irony, One Of Fury
The Purusha Sukta glibly drops the four varnas on Hindus. Lit by a holy rage and unwavering in scholarship, Ambedkar exploded the very purity of the chaturvarna.
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April 18, 2016
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The Classic Caste Confrontation Over Water
It was the classic caste confrontation—over water. Eighty-nine years ago, Ambedkar led a group of Dalits to drink water from this lake in Mahad.
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April 18, 2016
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No Thing As Geneteic Merit
Sangh arguments for only economic quota are specious. Actually, the private sector must pass on its privileges.
4 min |
April 18, 2016
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Where Crackdowns Are As Common As The Azadi Chant!
Where crackdowns are as common as the azadi chant, what is different about police action at NIT Srinagar?
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April 25, 2016
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Why The World's Biggest Movie Star Can't Speak On Indo-Pak Peace?
It's a shame that a superstar can't talk of Indo-Pak peace
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April 25, 2016
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From China, With Love
Chinese smartphones offering the price-conscious India a fascinating new range of products right now
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April 25, 2016
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Cures That Make A Big Killing
People exploded in anger at Bengal’s notoriously coercive hospitals. Now, a new law will take them on.
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May 08, 2017
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The Valley's New Curriculum
Girl students pelting stones at the police in the heart of Srinagar marks a shift in the Kashmir unrest’s visual profile
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May 08, 2017
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Is There A Future For AAP?
AAP was not just another party. It came not as a regional force or a lobby—it deigned to be a universal alternative to everything. If the promise is fading, it must examine the mirror, not just the EVM.
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