Endowed with shorter arm lengths, females tend to hold reading material closer to their eyes
02 July 2012It was in the 1980s, when two scrap mafia gangs got involved in a bloody rivalry, that the British Raj era town earned its notoriety
02 July 2012Nightlife is under threat across urban India, as overzealous policemen are encouraged by hypocritical politicians to wage a war against a form of modernity that appals as much as terrifies them. Listed here are some of their attacks
23 June 2012“Pop music was a rage in the 90s but eventually became monotonous and died out. Indie music is doing the rounds now”
23 June 2012In August 2011, S&P downgraded America’s long-held triple-A rating, prompting a global sell-off
23 June 2012“For my bail, my father sold off his land, and in October 2007, I got bail... in 2009, I was sentenced to prison by the trial courts”
18 June 2012Who the President calls to form a government might be crucial in the 2014 polls
18 June 2012“As a nation, we are ruled by complacency. The top brass of the Army has to speak up and take charge if things are to change”
12 June 2012Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground
MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns
TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle
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