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Art sprouts at Kochi Biennale, bringing hope to a contrarion state
Kochi: Over 1.5 lakh people have visited the first Kochi-Muziris Biennale, making it one of the biggest public art shows mounted in India. The biennale which began on 12/12/12 amid the contrarion culture of Kerala, with the culture minister slapping a case against the organizers for alleged misuse of government #art #installations #Kochi biennale #ThingsWeLike
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Digital Newsweek with video covers is an awesome experience
In the murky history of magazine reinvention, Newsweek, which turned fully digital this year, seems to have pulled off a marvel. After reading two editions, it can be said that the future of current affairs weeklies may lie in following the footsteps of Newsweek digital, down the virtual highway full #androids #digital magazine #Digital Media #iPad #MediaWatch #news magazines #Newsweek #The Wall Street Journal Online #Time of India
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Protests: A new class stakes claim to India of the future
The angry protests against the increasing criminalisation and lumpenisation of New Delhi over the last two weeks have captured the attention of the entire world. While there are protests all over the globe, significantly the anti-capitalist sit-in movement of Washington, there has seldom been such a spontaneous and leaderless urban #Anna Hazare #InMyOpinion #urbanisation
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‘Photography strictly prohibited’: The image and why we are scared of it
The ongoing retrospective of Kulwant Roy’s historic photographs at New Delhi’s, National Gallery of Modern Art flanking Indian Gate, is an example of how valuable photographs have been to the study and understanding of history and our leaders. Such a grand retrospective also brings a #Indira Gandhi #InMyOpinion #Kulwant Roy #Shastri Bhavan
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‘No sex involved in Nehru and Lady Mountbatten’s love’
Edwina Mountbatten and Jawaharlal Nehru were deeply in love according to her daughter Pamela Hicks whose autobiography Daughter of Empire (Weidenfeld and Nicolson) has just been released. It was blissful romance but there was no sex involved for the simple reason that they did not have time for it. Excerpts from #Daughter of Empire #Jawaharlal Nehru #Lady Edwina Mountbatten #Lord Mountbatten #Pamela Hicks #TheySaidIt
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Is the Congress leaning to the right with Kasab’s hanging?
Two recent decisions by the Congress-led UPA government would have stumped the BJP. Apart from taking the wind out of their sails on the eve of a Parliament session, these decisions may force the BJP to take tactical steps to counter the rightward sway of the Congress. The decision of #BJP #Congress #Elections #Gujarat #InMyOpinion #Mohammed Ajmal Kasab
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Why India adores its ‘returnees’ and the logic of its love for ‘Amrika’
We believe that a western stint is a necessary appendage to higher accomplishment. We are a self-criticial nation and see ourselves as survivors in a chaotic society with neither order nor governance nor intellectual heft. And hence, we foster this constant longing for Western thought and accomplishment as was seen in #ConnectTheDots #Kaushik Basu #Raghuram Rajan #Salman Rushdie #US Education #Western Civilisation
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1962: The national memory and the Himalayan Blunder
For a nation which lives in the past, and constantly looks to the past for succour from the daunting problems of the present, the 50th year ‘celebration’ of the 1962 war beats everything. The three chiefs of services and the Defence Minister AK Antony were at the New Delhi’s India #1962 India-China War #Arunachal Pradesh #Ch-India #Himalayan Blunder
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What death of Newsweek print means for Economist and Time
The foretold closing down of the iconic Newsweek weekly news magazine after 80 years, the last two years under the ownership of digital upstart The Daily Beast, holds warning signals and lessons for the future of many Indian magazines and newspapers struggling to survive or just pretending to have a #digital #Huffington Post #MediaWatch #Newspaper #Newsweek #The Economist #Time magazine #Week
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Why our xenophobhia has diminished us as a nation
Now that our collective euphoria over winning six medals (one by default) in the Olympics is over, it is time to figure out why we do not grow as a nation in any walk of life, and sports particularly. The known factor is that we are poor managers of anything and #OnlyInIndia #Xenophobia


