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LIKE A BUILDING FALLING ON YOUR HEAD BY NISHA SUSAN
Nisha Susan urges you to forget the high/low culture debate and fall right in
 
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THE FOREIGNER
BY AMITAVA KUMAR
You enter a country. But can you really live it or breathe it or feel it until you enter its people?
  THE HERO’S ENTRY
BY SOURABH RATNU
A beautiful companion, a slow and winding train and how accidents sometimes have their own scripts
THE GLASS PRINCESS
BY KALKI KOECHLIN
Locking yourself away could have consequences worse than a broken heart
  LOST & FOUND
BY MUSHARRAF ALI FAROOQI
Run your finger down its spine, that book might know what you're thinking
LOVE & THE MADMAN
BY NABARUN BHATTACHARYA
Maybe you've only seen it dressed in frills and lace, but love is brewed in darkness, on cold winter nights
  THE QUEST
BY SUNITI NAMJOSHI
Can you buy it in bottled jars? Can you read it off a page? Where do you go looking for romance
HABI-B-UN NISA
BY SHAMSUR RAHMAN FARUQI
A night of fierce passion and longing. But will Wazir give in to Habiba's advances
  THE ELEPHANT & THE GOLDFISH
BY RAHUL SONI
Some people stitch you shiny, new memories. Others help you forget what you cannot
WE’RE ON A MISSION NOW
BY JUGAL MODY
Nikhil, Danny, Aman and Suparna find themselves in a field of pot
  THE HANGMAN
BY KR MEERA
For some there are ties that bind, and for others, those that choke
GOAT GETTING
BY SIDDHARTH CHOWDHURY
Because you never know it's hit you until your heart skips a beat
  THE CORRESPONDENCE OF HARPER & MADELEINE BY PRASHANT MIRANDA
This gaping distance feels much better, every time I open your letter
THE ABSENCE OF GOD
BY AKSHAT VERMA
What he didn't know about the woman he had been waiting for

  ROGUE
BY SNEHA RAJARAM

Some girls want to put down roots. Some girls.
SERIES At The Heart Of It with Shoma Chaudhury Tehelka presents The Music Project In Conversation with Writers Cinema & Me: The Movies That Made Me

AARUSHI MURDER
Talwars to face trial next month, could be arrested
Supreme Court rejects the couple’s plea for quashing criminal proceedings against them in the Ghaziabad trial court


SLY CULTURE
Rakhi Sawant’s shocked, Naomi Wolf’s vagina tales & German art
Why bra shopping is more fun in Saudi Arabia, Facebook censors and the ultimate Pakistani movie


NAME GAME
Bid to rename Chandni Chowk after Sachin goes for a toss
Delhi Government tells MCD renaming will undermine great cultural heritage of the iconic place

MANIPUR
Manipur DGP removed on Election Commission’s directive
CEC Qureshi says People’s Democratic Front, BJP had expressed concerns about Singh

MCD
Online approval of building plans aims to curb graft
The idea is to reduce face-to-face interaction completely so that there are no chances of bribery

ATTACK
Artist assaulted over erotic paintings, attacker flees
Balbir Krishan’s current collection celebrates homosexuality and depicts male figures in erotic positions

2G SCAM
Essar, Loop plead HC: CBI court shouldn’t hear our case
CBI and ED “going soft” on Essar by not charging them under Prevention of Corruption Act

AUTO EXPO 2012
Peugeot to roll out luxury sedan 508 by 2014
French carmaker to invest about Rs 4,000 crore on its Ahmedabad unit, eyes 15 Indian cities

NRHM SCAM
CBI raids Kushwaha’s properties, arrests aides
Recovers Rs 1.10 crore and 3 kilograms of gold from the residence of general manager of UP Jal Nigam

AVIATION
2012 may mean more turbulence for the aviation industry
Former Executive Director of Air India Jitender Bhargava warns against crisis in the Indian aviation industry

POLITICS
Kushwaha won’t be a star campaigner, announces BJP
Growing resentment within the BJP over Kushwaha’s induction stirs up a hornet’s nest

CRAFT
Delhi's date with Dastakari - a melting pot of eclectic style
The ongoing 25th Dastakari crafts bazaar celebrates African handicrafts from five countries


CULTURE
Rediscovering Tagore: To the poet With Love
Tagore is viewed through fresh lens at the Vikram Sarabhai International Arts Festival, says Anil Mulchandani


 
  CITIZENS CHARTER
‘The government’s Citizens Charter Bill is a great breakthrough’
Activist Nikhil Dey tells Shoma Chaudhury why this Bill is a historic opportunity and must not be held hostage to Jan Lokpal politics.

IN COLD BLOOD
'No political party wants an independent, strong Lokpal'
Team Anna member Prashant Bhushan tells Kunal Majumder that politicians are afraid of coming under scrutiny

BHAGWAD GITA ROW
From Russia With Love
The Bhagwad Gita case is much ado about nothing and the Russians are hoping it will blow over soon. Revati Laul reports

PROS&CONS
Something is rotten in the state of India
The government’s indifference towards food being allowed to go waste is a cunning ploy to open up agriculture to corporates

  TELEVISION
Prime-time Confessions
A new channel, a new reality show and a new concept. Sunaina Kumar explores how Life OK aims to be different

BOOKS
The Polyphony of the Past
For Delhi’s centennial, this coffee table book celebrates the capital’s pageantry, poetry and its traditions of tolerance, says Mushirul Hasan

PERSONAL HISTORIES: PET
‘I didn’t realise back then what Brutus brought into my life’
By Yogita limaye

     



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