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 | Taslima’s book release: Mullahs scream, secularists surrender
Our Correspondent
Our politicians have done it again. A few days after our ‘secular’ leaders abjectly submitted to the diktat of mullahs over Salman Rushdie’s presence from the Jaipur Literature Festival, they have stopped exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasrin’s book.. [ full story ] |
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An encounter with Dev Anand Ravi Shanker Kapoor
The man loves color. This is the first impression that one gets when confronted with Dev Anand. Bright, dark green suede suit, a yellow shirt, a red apple in hand—this is how the evergreen film star stepped out of the red Santro for a short visit to th.. [ full story ] |  |
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 | Dev Anand—a gentleman hero
Ravi Shanker Kapoor
It’s a bit clichéd all right, but that is what I really felt when I heard of Dev Anand’s death—a void. Like the one I felt after the demise of my elder brother, Gauri Shanker Kapoor, two decades ago. Of course, that was much more personal, poignant, he.. [ full story ] |
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Cricket establishment, Cong victimize Kambli Ravi Shanker Kapoor
In its response to former cricketer Vinod Kambli’s statement about the 1996 World Cup semi-final, the cricket establishment appears to be intriguingly united in its support for the then captain, Mohammed Azharuddin. Kambli had said on a TV channel that.. [ full story ] |  |
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 | Art faces moral policing
Our Correspondent Now art is facing censorship. A Delhi-based artist Damayanti Sharma had been told by Mumbai’s oldest public art gallery, the Jehangir Art Gallery, that she could not display some of her paintings “for fear of offending the sensibilities of some quarters.”.. [ full story ] |
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