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Time to rise to next level - Mar 16, 2009
It may be pure irony, or indeed a bad omen, that India's team for the upcoming tour to New Zealand has been selected on Friday the 13th.
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Slumdog Oscar-aire - Mar 16, 2009
It is about a slum kid who stumbles into the Indian version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire (Kaun Banega Crorepati) and manages to answer all questions to win the big prize.
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Fat lot of bad - Mar 15, 2009
Forget Lashkar-e-Taiba and al-Qaeda. The new t-word is not terrorism but trans-fats, which recent medical surveys say are more injurious to our health than Pakistani Strontium 90.
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O-zone: Beyond the gates... - Mar 15, 2009
Watching a kid move towards the exam hall even as you stand beyond the gates, unable to do anything more to help him, seems uncannily symbolic of life. Indeed, if telepathy had found more acceptance, these parents could well risk endangering their kids fo
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Dharma fails on Wall Street - Mar 15, 2009
It is a lesson for the millions in India who have just risen into the middle class. Successes of capitalism produce over time enervating influences when a generation committed to saving is replaced by one devoted to spending.
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If the US is bad, its rivals are worse - Mar 15, 2009
The five biggest investment banks in the world (Lehman Brothers et al) have vanished in the financial carnage. The two biggest mortgage companies in the world, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, are under government overlordship.
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Slum like it hot - Mar 14, 2009
Did Mumbai's socialites discover zopadpattis via Danny Boyle in the way that they had suddenly discovered street children after Salaam Bombay?
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Buying back Gandhi legacy - Mar 09, 2009
Buying back of Gandhi??™s material possessions at an auction by a liquor baron known for living the good life loudly is no less compelling a symbol.
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