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‘India not to revise its nuclear plan’

The former foreign secretary and the Prime Minister’s special envoy on climate change, Mr Shyam Saran, said that India need not have to revise its nuclear plans in the aftermath of the disaster at the

Bouquets and brickbats for PM at Hay Festival

For writers Nayantara Sahgal and Tarun J. Tejpal, the Prime Minister, Mr Manmohan Singh, is a honourable man. But according to them, he has one big drawback. He does not have the confidence to speak o

India super poor, not superpower, says Shashi Tharoor

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The eminent writer and Congress MP, Mr Shashi Tharoor, on Thursday did some plain talk on India’s global aspirations and said the country was ‘super-poor rather than a superpower’.

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No regret for attacking Indira Gandhi, says Nayantara Sahgal

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The Sahithya Akademi winner and the niece of the first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Ms Nayantara Sahgal, said that the time had come for people to hurt others’ feelings.

“Let people be upset,”

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.