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A New Site On Old Bombay
The ‘Bombay Samachar’ building near Horniman Circle. Photo: Dj Murty. If you’re a history buff, then you can get your fix of old Bombay at Bombaywalla.org, a new site started by Simin Patel, a final...
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The Supreme Court has notified various ministries in the government about a Public Interest Litigation filed by Indore-based advocate Kamlesh Vaswani, which demands that Internet laws be changed to...
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Watch Out For A 24-Hour Matrimony Channel
Photo courtesy of Shagunindia.com. In a country that’s so obsessed with marriage, it was only a matter of time before we got the matrimonial equivalent of Aastha TV. Shagun TV, a new 24-hour Hindi...
View ArticleA Pimple Mars Indo-Chinese Relations, Says Salman Khurshid
“One little spot is acne, which cannot force you to say that this is not a beautiful face…that acne can be addressed by simply applying an ointment,” said External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid...
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The Good Word: Reads From Around The Web
Our round-up of the week’s news stories worth reading: Whirly Koliwada The Caravan Issue dated May 2013 Chakri cricket is a variation of the sport played in the Dharavi, Worli and Prabhadevi koliwadas...
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‘Mumbai Mirror’ Is Mean To Sanjay Dutt
Photo courtesy of Star World. Sanjay Dutt might deserve to go to jail for his idiotic mistake before the 1993 blasts—there’s a reason the 53-year-old actor is still called Sanju baba—but he also...
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That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore: The Indian Government’s War Against Laughter
It was late January 2012, and my wife Aadya and I were skipping through movie channels with the remote, hoping to find something to watch. As is often the case with cable, the selection was bleak, a...
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There’s Twice As Much Sonam Kapoor In This Month’s Issue Of Vogue
Weren’t we just lamenting how Sonam Kapoor shows up on a magazine cover every month? Turns out that was waaay back in 2011. So in 2013, Ms Kapoor is allowed to plaster all the mags she wants,...
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The Good Word: Reads From Around The Web
Our round-up of the week’s news stories worth reading: Adverse Reaction The Caravan Issue dated June 2013 In April, the Supreme Court rejected pharmaceutical giant Novartis’s attempt to patent its...
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Editor’s Notes: GQ’s Che Kurrien
When Che Kurrien returned to India from New York about a decade ago, he was presented with two job options: an unpaid internship at the Indian Express, or an opportunity to be on the sports desk of the...
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News Corp
Photo: Satish Krishnamurthy via Wikipedia. Earlier this month, four senior editors of the Indian edition of Forbes were booted out of the business magazine. Editor Indrajit Gupta, managing editor...
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The Good Word: Reads From Around The Web
Our round-up of the week’s news stories worth reading: Big Brother Is Watching You? Hindustan Times Issue of Saturday, June 22 The American government’s PRISM programme has been in the news ever since...
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Editor’s Notes: The Caravan’s Anant Nath
Anant Nath, 32 always knew he would join the family business. Nath’s grandfather Vishva Nath was the founder of Delhi Press, the 73-year-old company that publishes such popular magazines such as...
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The Good Word: Reads From Around The Web
Our round-up of the week’s news stories worth reading: Anatomy Of A Disaster Open Issue of July 2-8 Open magazine travels to Kedarnath in Uttarakhand to gauge the destruction wrought by floods that...
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Crest Fallen
While the news had been out for a week, The Times of India officially announced on Saturday, July 20 that this weekend’s issue of The Crest Edition would be the last. A note that appeared in both Crest...
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