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Nov 08, 2011
Love, sex and the dhoka of pushing the envelope in Bollywood
No sex please, we're Indian. That old saying has gone out of the window in Bollywood. Indian cinema is stripping down and getting to business. But does that mean it's all grown up now? -
Nov 08, 2011
The corruption gene: Are Indians culturally wired to be corrupt?
We often say corruption is a cancer on our society. What if this is literally true? Have the very same cultural traits that define us – and even enable us to rise and shine – produced a cancerous growth of venality and greed? -
Nov 07, 2011
Politicians can learn from how Team Anna used social media: Tharoor
One of India's most media savvy politicians Shashi Tharoor grades Team Anna's political movement for the Jan Lokpal Bill. -
Nov 07, 2011
Seven ways India can rescue Pakistan
Can India and Pakistan live together peacefully? But Mani Shankar Aiyar reminds us that the current European Union would have sounded as impossible hundred years ago. -
Nov 06, 2011
Aamir Khan: Breaking the Rules
Polite, engaged, charming, with a dash of un-fake humility, Khan seems the very antithesis of anyone’s idea of a rule-breaker. -
Nov 05, 2011
Arvind Kejriwal: 'Anna is not India. India is not Anna'
A whooping, hollering audience cheered both sides, as Arvind Kejriwal and his fellow RTI activist Shekhar Singh went back-and-forth on the virtues and follies of the Hazare movement. -
Nov 05, 2011
What ails America: Tom Friedman's diagnosis of a superpower in crisis
What do you get when you put globalisation's biggest cheerleader, Thomas Friedman on the same stage as India's most articulate left-leaning intellectual, Pratap Bhanu Mehta? A surprising absence of disagreement. -
Nov 05, 2011
What writing can do that nothing else can: Naipaul
If there is a grand old man of letters at the Goa Thinkfest it's undoubtedly VS Naipaul. When he appeared on stage, chatting with Tarun Tejpal, he was in a kindly grandfather mode, happily playing a twinkling indulgent Yoda to Tejpal's Hans Solo. -
Nov 04, 2011
When Gadkari the person, overshadowed Gadkari the politician
It was a different Nitin Gadkari on view in Goa — funny, relaxed and charming, he revealed his softer side. -
Nov 04, 2011
Siddhartha Mukherjee on Steve Jobs: His death was a failure of imagination
A five star line up of authors, intellectuals, biz tycoons, actors, politicians and more have gathered at the Grand Hyatt in Goa as part of Thinkfest.
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