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Talvar: A must see whodunnit based on Aarushi-Hemraj murders

                Irrafan Khan as Ashwin Kumar – a powerful performance by  Rajyasree Sen   Oct 1, 2015 16:52 IST The 2008 Aarushi Talwar-Hemraj double murder case has been back in the news this year. First there was the film Rahasya, which was inspired by the case and released […]

India answers Nawaz Sharif: First vacate POK

              Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif at the UN New York/New Delhi : Bluntly calling Pakistan a “prime sponsor of terrorism,” India today strongly hit back at Islamabad, asserting de-militarising Kashmir is not the answer for achieving peace but “deterrorising” Pakistan is as it uses terror as a “legitimate […]

How a ”˜dislike’ button could make Facebook more money

              Facebook’s famous “like” button, with its silhouette of an upturned thumb, will soon be accompanied by an alternative: a way to “dislike” a post. On Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg, the company’s co-founder and chief executive, said that Facebook was “very close to shipping a test” of a dislike button. […]

Edward Snowden in an exclusive interview on Al Jazeera’s ‘Upfront’

              Edward Snowden in an exclusive interview with Upfront show host Mehdi Hasan a program by Al Jazeera channel that was launched  on September 4 Washington D.C. ”“ 3 September, 2015 ”“  In a rare and exclusive Al Jazeera television interview, former NSA contractor-turned-whistle-blower, Edward Snowden has responded to […]

Naseeruddin Shah – the prince of parallel cinema

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”- Thomas Merton He found himself as a blind man struggling for his identity, a father ailing for his estranged son, a Ghazal singer cum terrorist mastermind, a common man, an old and lusty lover and in various other shades of human nature […]

With an absent United States, China marches on

  By  Fareed Zakaria Washington Post (  July 2 2015) In January 2007, not long after  George W. Bush announced  his surge of troops into Iraq, I happened to be having lunch with a Chinese friend who is a well-connected member of the Communist Party. I asked him how the news was being received in […]

India’s development debate must move beyond  Modi

27 May 2015, 6.10am AEST By Sachin Dhawan Assistant Professor and Assistant Director, Centre for Law and Humanities at O.P. Jindal Global University               With Modi at its heart, discussion about India’s development remains overly simplistic.  Gopal Shetty/Newzulu/AAP   One year on from Narendra Modi’s swearing in as India’s […]

Seven foreign cricketers who married Indian women

  Australian speedster Shaun Tait tied the knot with  Indian model Mashoom Singha after a four-year courtship.  Sudatta  Mukherjee  goes back in time to write about the many overseas cricketers who fell in love with Indian women and married them. Glenn Turner and Dame Sukhinder Kaur Gill Turner:               […]

It may be hard to accept, but Pakistan won’t help India on terror

By  Kanwal Sibal   PUBLISHED:  00:25 GMT, 23 December 2014  |  UPDATED:  00:25 GMT, 23 December 2014     The problem for India is that Pakistan is unable to deal with domestic terrorism, which is become more lethal – as the latest incident of the brutal killing of school children inPeshawar shows. At the same […]

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