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The poverty debate in the country reached a fever pitch ever since the Planning Commission accepted Prof Tendulkar's report which kept the poverty line at ...

04:43 PM, Oct 14, 2011
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Apart from being the toughest place to get into, the IITs are probably the most talked about technical institutes by the citizens in any country. ...

03:27 PM, Oct 07, 2011
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It's a sad day for citizens of the world. Rarely does one get to see a single individual impacting so many lives across the world ...

11:17 AM, Oct 06, 2011
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New data presented at the 1st Global Forum on Bacterial Infections in New Delhi this week showed that bacteria carrying the NDM-1 gene have been ...

05:06 PM, Oct 05, 2011
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With Dussehra around the corner and an uneasy truce between the Home Minister and Finance Minister, Panditji's prediction is that the 'devil' lies in the ...

01:30 PM, Sep 30, 2011
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How different could a 23-year-old Mumbaikar be? So I thought, before I met Pramod, an animator by profession. Stuck in a sort of limbo, a ...

04:34 PM, Sep 28, 2011
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Lawyers appearing in the Special Court trying the accused in the 2G Scam and those appearing for various parties in the Supreme Court affirm this ...

02:00 PM, Sep 27, 2011
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One would think that the focal point of any university and the experience of being at university is the institution's library. Not for students of ...

07:29 PM, Sep 26, 2011
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With so many political figures holed up in Tihar, the ones that are outside look pristine white, like the proverbial super-white shirt in a detergent ...

11:43 AM, Sep 26, 2011
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At the end of Narendra Modi's Sadbhawna fast, it is evident that Modi has taken a clear and decisive lead in pitching himself as BJP's ...

11:35 AM, Sep 26, 2011
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Everyone seems to be changing their game these days. Is it an effect of Rahul Gandhi's "game changer" comment? This week's Chanakya's Chant wonders who ...

05:23 PM, Sep 23, 2011
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LK Advani is officially pulling out of the race for prime ministership. Or is he? He has said he's happy as a party worker. An ...

06:39 PM, Sep 21, 2011
![Soumyadip Choudhury Soumyadip Choudhury]()
The single biggest reason I love the Oscars (apart from the fact that it's a traffic generator for the website I work for) is that ...

12:35 PM, Sep 17, 2011
![Tathagata Bhattacharya Tathagata Bhattacharya]()
A senior colleague of mine pinged me a Facebook post today. He was already facebooking and I was yet to hop on. Anyways, the post ...

04:32 PM, Sep 16, 2011
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A friend of mine messaged me a couple of days back on Facebook. The message was a succinct but terse expression of his grief on ...

01:14 PM, Sep 06, 2011
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The writing on the wall is loud and clear. The communication machinery, method, strategy, substance and speed of the Government of India (GoI) require a ...

03:55 PM, Sep 05, 2011
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This depicts the traditional Indian custom of appending the suffix "Ji" to each and every name that we come across. Enjoy it Ji. ...

01:49 PM, Aug 22, 2011
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Why in Christ's name would I want to write about love now, of all times? As Rick would say "With the whole world crumbling, we ...

01:23 PM, Aug 20, 2011
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Things were going well for Oommen Chandy after the initial hiccups of forming a UDF government with the macho allies. His ambitious 100-day governance program ...

04:29 PM, Aug 10, 2011
![Sriram Balasubramanian Sriram Balasubramanian]()
Education in India is a conundrum. A few years back my cousin just completed her 12th standard and she had a percentage of 94.2; a ...

11:37 AM, Aug 10, 2011