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BREAKING NEWS: SMS poll gimmick kills ‘Mukta’
SUMERU S. RAJU writes: Let me confess. I watch Mukta, the primetime Kannada serial on ETV regularly. For people whose idea of a soap opera is defined by Ekta Kapoor‘s …
CHURUMURI POLL: Are we a dying democracy?
Look at the Nepalese pro-democracy protestors. Look at the French students who rioted to save their pensions. Look at the Filipinos who take to the streets almost every year to …
Why couldn’t the Sardar buy an Arrow shirt?
Ever since I was told by my father of a possibly apocryphal angadi in Shimoga called Devare Gathi Stores, I have always been fascinated by the names of shops. And, …
TOP SECRET: Guessin’ jaisa kuch bhi nahin
"I think he is overestimated as an economist, and underestimated as a politician." Who on whom? Our lips, as usual, are sealed.
QUESTION: Is Pramod Mahajan a 2,000 crore man?
A couple of days after Pramod Mahajan was shot, one of the news channels ran purported excerpts from Pravin Mahajan's deposition before the Bombay police. Besides the usual dhaap about being humiliated …
How Kaavya Got Fame, Fortune and Got Screwed
Why Kaavya Vishwanathan did what she did we will never know (maybe V.N. Narayanan can enlighten us). Peer pressure? Overweening ambition? A thirst for success at all costs? Teenage mischief? DKCS: …
If we are so good in IT, why are we so bad at BT?
A. MADHAVAN writes from San Francisco: Foreign travel stimulates the mind and the senses. We are constantly asking ourselves, how does this experience match with what we are used to at …