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True Life

Peta’s Sexiest Man Alive

Mihir Srivastava

The story of how an arthritic village boy who was laughed at became a celebrity wrestler with a cause

How I found my daughters

Adopting kids in India isn’t easy to begin with; adopting twin girls has legal complications. Anuradha Nagaraj recounts her struggle to bring her daughters home

‘Put the CBI Under the Judiciary’

Trinath Mishra on his refusal to give in to political meddling, which led to his decision to bow out of the agency after just 14 months

Just Another Massacre

Sinam Ongbi Chandrajini lost two young sons and a sister when Assam Rifles personnel arbitrarily opened fire on civilians in Malom in 2000. It was the horror of this incident that led Irom Sharmila to begin her fast against AFSPA

How I survived 42 hours in a lift

Suresh Sonawane, an inspector working with the Missing Persons Bureau of the Mumbai police, went missing—only to be found two days later trapped in an office elevator

Birth of a Tycoon

How Rama Prasad Goenka got baptised by fire in the acquisitions game to emerge as India’s ‘takeover specialist’

Waiting for Deliverance

What families in Haryana will do to have a son. A witness’ account

The Hills Go Red

Memories of an agitation unsettling the calm of Kalimpong and of a human head on a lamppost

The Show Goes On

A decade into her modelling career, at a stage when most others would have thought it prudent to call it quits, Candice Pinto still walks the ramp nearly 300 days a year. The secret of her career longevity

Wrong Place, Wrong Time

Abdul Wasey Mirza has survived two bomb blasts, one in Hyderabad in 2007 and another in the same city in February this year. Hundreds of pieces of shrapnel lodged in his body are proof of the ordeal, but what he wants to rid himself of are the scars of being branded a terror suspect

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