Navarathri is an inviolable tradition of nine-day festivities running into eight days this year. No, that is not a joke. Navarathri is indeed truncated by a day this year. Why? Did Standard & Poor, while bringing down its outlook on India, reduce the rating on Navarathri, too (if a Tamilian had authored that report it would doubtless read: Kajana kali… Read more →
This year’s Nobel Prize for Literature is out, and it has gone to the writer Mo Yan, for the ‘hallucinatory realism of having a Chinese name that could be spelt easily in English’. If you think that I am kidding, then it means you did not come across the citation of the previous full-fledged Asian to win the prize, Gao… Read more →
New Delhi: In what is being seen as the most logical and acceptable response to the charges leveled against it by Arvind Kejriwal, realty major DLF today explained that the money and the land that it gave to Robert Vadra was fully based on the Duckworth-Lewis method. In a carefully-compiled rebuttal to Arvind Kejriwal’s accusations, a spokesperson of DLF said… Read more →
Many passionate Indian cricket followers, who had kept track on TV the World T20 matches, would doubtless be in a mood to ask the captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni a few pertinent questions. Let me, as a person who had once been a sports correspondent and covered international cricket matches, start off with the most important one that begs an immediate… Read more →
Public forbidden from talking about film’s story with anyone Chennai: Ace director Mani Ratnam is known to be assiduously secretive about his film projects. He ensures that sturdy firewalls are always in place to prevent details of his films from slipping into public domain. In a logical extension to this, his production house, Madras Talkies, has moved the Madras High… Read more →
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