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Avantika Bhuyan

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Real India
India’s Own Madame Tussauds

A little away from Kolhapur is a unique museum: an entire village sculpted from stone, brick and cement.

10 September 2009
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Real India
A Hotel for Change

11 Dalit girls who were doing menial jobs are now part of the hospitality staff of a converted palace

03 September 2009
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Business
Stamped and Cast Aside

Come 2010, mobile phones and emails will have taken another victim. India Post will no longer extend the licences of letter writers

02 September 2009
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Living
Revival of the Fittest

Bored with your morning jogs and routine aerobics? Check out the latest craze of fitness enthusiasts—ancient martial arts that have kicked in afresh

26 August 2009
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Real India
Brewing up Books

Laxman Rao, a tea stall owner, has written 20 novels in Hindi, which is not his mother tongue

06 August 2009
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Living
Sushi Goes Desi

Its creator in Japan had always envisioned sushi as fast food, to be savoured even by the road side. Here is what it is doing on Indian streets

06 August 2009
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Cinema
Virtual Terror, Real Animation

A desktop movie made on a shoe-string budget draws international attention to the surprise of its makers

15 July 2009
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Living
Our Own Green Warrior

Shaping opinions on global warming demands passion and perseverance. It’s why Aarti Bhalla will be the only Indian at Al Gore’s upcoming Climate Project summit

10 July 2009
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Art & Culture
Remembering Tyeb Mehta

Arun Vadehra of Vadehra Art Gallery picks five landmark paintings which defined the late Tyeb Mehta’s art

10 July 2009
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Art & Culture
Did You Say Poetry Is a Bore?

Maybe no more. It’s leaving its stuffy image behind as performance poets jump onto stage and get the crowd high on their rhythm

03 July 2009

Authors

Brahma Chellaney

Brahma 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

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

Ram Madhav

Ram Madhav is president, India Foundation, and is with BJP

Makarand R Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.

TCA Raghavan

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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