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A shrine for a love story
‘I conceived, thought of, imagined both the novel and the museum together'. Orhan Pamuk speaks about the making of The Museum of Innocence in an exclusive interview.
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Related: Pamuk flags the question of love
Related: World of books hardly lags behind
A multifaceted legend
It wasn't just her dance that made Balasaraswati special. It was also her outlook towards art and life.
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The other half : Aamir, listen in
Here's a subject you can consider for your show. The subject I suggest is a programme on domestic help. All of us have people "working" for us. Yet, we do not grant them the rights of workers.
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All work, no play
May 12, 2012
Showcase: Brilliantly unpredictable
As you read this, At the Drive-In will have played their first reunion show since 2001 at the Coachella festival. Vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala and guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez gave up on that ba...
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May 12, 2012
Showcase: Jihad redefined
In the summer of 1995, six tourists were kidnapped from the lush, pine-scented camping spot, nicknamed The Meadow, in the valleys of Kashmir. The ransom note said the kidnappers were from an Islami...
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May 12, 2012
Rendezvous @ Raffles
A hotel as a National Monument! Just imagine that! It can only happen in Singapore where its ancient and more recent past are as important as its present. We in Tamil Nadu keep talking of doing eve...
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May 12, 2012
Sudden death
Football is often seen as the sport of the absolutely fit. After all, running across a field for more than over two hours needs the best of human ability and strength. But recently there have been...
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May 12, 2012
A show-stopper still…
When actor Shabnam returned to Pakistan last month, she brought back memories of what can now be called the golden era of Pakistani cinema. Though age has caught up with the actor who had ruled Pa...
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May 12, 2012
Where it all began
In a sense, Bollywood — Bombay's Hollywood, in other words — can be said to have had its beginnings with Dadasaheb Phalke shooting his first film “Raja Harischandra” almost a 100 years ago in Bomba...
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May 12, 2012
Fighting smart
All married couples fight. Sometimes we call it a row, sometimes a spat, sometimes a scrap. But whatever it actually is, we do engage in a not-always-polite exchange of hostilities every now and ag...
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May 12, 2012
The making of "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel"
To kick off the U.S. launch of the British film “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,” a press conference was recently held at Manhattan's posh Waldorf Astoria Hotel. The film, set in Rajasthan, stars r...
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May 12, 2012
Showcase: A cop and his camera
“Face Two Face”, a solo exhibition by Shivaraju B.S., is creating ripples in Bangalore. A policeman by profession, Cop Shiva — as he is called — has had no formal training in photography. The exqu...
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May 5, 2012
The other Miss Koovagam
Behind a marriage hall in Villupuram — named, somewhat ironically, Sri Anjaneya, after a deity who opted to remain wifeless — I run into Shakila, a startlingly tall and statuesque transgender who h...
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The Hindu Crossword No. 2685
Barefoot: Still under siege
The pigeon's passengers
Making a creative statement
That breathless feeling
Bridge: Out of the ordinary
Gourmet Files : Right on course
Showcase: Open air gallery
Showcase: On a figurative note
May 12, 2012
Showcase: Bhutanese gala
It's springtime in Bhutan and the Land of the Thunder Dragon is gearing up to host one of the fastest growing literary festivals in the world. Mountain Echoes is an annual literary and cultural fes...
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May 12, 2012
Oh for a shiny nose!
Will I return to this part of the Arctic as a reindeer in my next birth? I smile silently at the mental image. But to my host, dressed up just then as a serious, magic-chanting wiseman, a shamam...
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May 12, 2012
Power pods
For centuries garlic has been used as a medicinal and culinary substance in India, China, Greece and other countries. It has been used as a salve for everything from headaches to colds to infection...
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May 12, 2012
Be bygone
For rail enthusiasts, who want to re-live (re-ride) the Raj era trains and associated systems, there is no place like Sri Lanka. Most of Sri Lanka is trapped in this past, barring a few busy stretc...
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May 12, 2012
The poetic Taliban
From what we know about the Taliban — ill-humoured, no taste for aesthetics, averse to the arts — poetry is the last thing one would associate with them. But, apparently, there are Taliban who, con...
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May 12, 2012
Stoking the embers
The tussle between coal mining and nature conservation has been long standing. But things have risen to a new level with the GoM (Group of Ministers) set up to consider the various issues around co...
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May 12, 2012
My fair lady
The inelastic nature of some businesses is amazingly profitable, as companies selling fairness creams will tell you. The key is to have a marketing strategy with a human face. What better than exte...
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May 12, 2012
The Hindu Crossword No. 2686
Across1 Something attractive, foremost of gardens captured by French painter (6)4 Operator needs a fresh start and to develop quickly (7) 9 Knife left in various places...
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May 12, 2012
The urge to laugh
Aamir Raza Husain is quite clear about why he does theatre. “Theatre is for entertainment; it is not a vehicle for directors to make a statement, not a platform for them to achieve nirvana but help...
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May 5, 2012
In the line of faith
Dr. Eboo Patel is a man of peace in a time of violence. At a time when a Muslim name is automatically equated with terrorism and Islam itself is misunderstood, this young Muslim Indian-American sh...
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Cambridge Letter: Time for reforms
The case of the missing artists
Worldspace: Contradictory colours
New style capitals
Short of breath
Berry bounty
In the wild woods
Showcase: Keep it simple
Slideshow
Once on the edge of extinction, the Totos of Totopara, one of the country’s oldest indigenous tribes, have embraced modernity and ensured their survival. Photos: Arunangsu Roy Chowdhury
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- Affluenza: Hindol Sengupta
- Barefoot: Harsh Mander
- Bridge: L. Subramanian
- Cambridge Letter: Bill Kirkman
- Fiscally Fit: Shyam P.
- Gourmet Files: Vasundhara Chauhan
- In Passing: Suchitra Behal
- Lit by Books: Nirmala Lakshman
- Media Matters: Sevanti Ninan
- Pacemaker: Yogacharini Maitreyi
- The Other Half: Kalpana Sharma
- The Shrinking Universe: Vijay Nagaswami
