The advertising agency Lowe Lintas upped the budget from a planned Rs 4.02 crore to sign Bachchan on for Rs 6.31 crore to promote DD Kisan
23 July 2015More sex does not necessarily spell more happiness. It can make people feel worse
22 July 2015State governments merely dole out compensation packages, apologies on Twitter and press conferences and empty promises of corrective measures
16 July 2015Most ‘oldest living persons’ happen to be residents of Japan, which at last count was home to over 58,000 people aged over 100
09 July 2015The brain activity of so-called ‘porn addicts’ is the opposite of cocaine and gambling addicts
08 July 2015Hooch was being sold in connivance with local cops and excise officials for some 30 years in the slums of Malwani, where the tragedy occurred
02 July 2015Males are not more skilled, they just overestimate their arithmetic prowess
02 July 2015Lashkar-e-Islam first stormed the Valley with posters that threatened mobile network providers, asking them to wind up their operations
25 June 2015Gajendra Chauhan’s FTII posting is viewed as politically motivated and students are worried that this might affect their creative freedom
18 June 2015Brahma 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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