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Haima Deshpande

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Real India
Graveyard Cafe

Patrons of Lucky Restaurant in Ahmedabad have to keep their feet off the 18 graves in it

23 July 2009
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Real India
Your Eyes are Like…

In Pune, a naturopath is promoting the dying art of writing love letters by hand

16 July 2009
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Real India
A Curious Village

Do you sometimes feel like riding a buffalo, milking a cow or pelting stones at mangoes?

02 July 2009
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‘Advani has lost the moral stature to lead the BJP’

MG Vaidya on what ails Advani, Modi and the BJP at large. Also, his set of remedies

26 June 2009
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Revenge of the Sangh

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh ideologue MG Vaidya has some words of elderly advice for the muddled BJP

19 June 2009
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India
Vanity Fare

The rise of Raj Thackeray’s Maharashtra Navnirman Sena signals the decline of his uncle’s Shiv Sena

18 June 2009
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Real India
Ass You Like It

Abused and ailing donkeys have found a home in interior Maharashtra. Raising funds for a donkey sanctuary, though, is a problem

16 June 2009
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Confessions
Confessions of a Commercial Pilot

Piloting an aircraft is probably one of the most powerful jobs because anyone who is someone and travels by air is forced to trust the commander

12 June 2009
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Confessions
Confessions of an Encounter Specialist

My wife has never been comfortable with my encounters. Every time there was one, she would go to the temple and pray for forgiveness

11 June 2009
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“I Want to Enter Politics, but Saheb Tells Me to Wait”

One of the most newsworthy political bahus, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray’s daughter-in-law, Smita Thackeray, gets candid

09 June 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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