Yeh Fugly Fugly kya hai?

Observer
Others
Bollywood heart throb Akshay Kumar's Grazing Goat Production house releases Fugly on 13 June. Naturally Kabir Sadanand, the youthful director has his reasons to be excited about the date. But audiences in the c...

Reflections of Lucknow in Letters

Observer
Literature
By Saman Habib and Sanjay Muttoo The writing of long, intimate, humorous, poignant personal letters is now part of a vanishing world for many of us. We were exposed to the experience of a shared reading of l...

Modi in and mother and son out!

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Politics
Never before has a General Election changed the political hue of a country like the 2014 elections, writes Vijay Dutt. By the time counting was over on 16th May, a saffron tsunami took over the country, givi...

The many stories of one man

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People
Renowned journalist and film-maker par excellence Khwaja Ahmad Abbas was born on 7 June in 1914. A hundred years later Dr. Zoya Zaidi takes a look at his short stories. Khwaja Ahmad Abbas started writing rea...

Chupke chupke Hasrat…

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Literature
Team TLO resurrects the memories of the man who gave India's freedom fighters the slogan 'Inquilab Zindabad!' "Hai Mashq-e Sukhan Jaari Chakki Ki Mashaqqat Bhi, Eik Turfa Tamasha Hai Hasrat Ki Tabiyat Bhi...

All for the Love of Cricket!

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Sports
Kakul Hai fields for young cricketers at the stadium here Young cricketers had a ball at the recently concluded fifth edition of the Times of India School Cricket League. Hosted by the K. D. Singh Babu St...

Woh Kaata!

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Lifestyle
Let the chorus soar... On Makar Sankranti day in January, Ahmedabad's skyline turns colourful with the young and the old, the kakas and the kakis, the bhais and the bens, and the chhoras and the chhoris, al...

The joy of diving into the female heart

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Literature
Leaving their men at home, women from different walks of life met at the Press Club recently, to enjoy shaame afsana, or an evening of tales that revolved around forgetting, forgiving and the depths of a female...