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The Fading Red Light
Chinki Sinha
As builders take over Kamathipura to build residential towers, the queen of India’s red light districts heads towards certain extinction
Why?
Why did Kanu Sanyal, the very first Naxalite, take his own life? Ill health? Despair? Or was he making a final statement? The most profound of all.
The ‘Raj’ is Dead. Long Live the ‘Raj’
From Lala Amarnath to Douglas Jardine to his favourite CK Nayudu, Raj Singh Dungarpur was a treasure trove of stories. And a cricket romantic without a peer.
Death of Ms Supermodel
Nobody could fully explain why she was special, but she was. Once. It was clear she was more than just a pretty face. Alas, that was the last we saw of her. A report from her funeral
‘What Is It to the Corpse If the Maggots Nip?’
She had three names, and was famous in all of them. Poet Kamala Das, who wrote in Malayalam under the penname Madhavikutty, passed away on 31 May in Pune
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