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Hidden Prejudices
After the uproar over the denial of restroom access to two African American men, on May 29, the coffee chain Starbucks announced that it will close more than 8,000 stores acro...
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Difficult Daughters
Neil Simon (along with Moliere) must be the most popular western playwright whose works are adapted (often plagiarized) on the Mumbai stage. There is something about so many ...
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Bioscopewala
Call him the Kabuliwala or Bioscopewala, that image of a tainted outsider waiting to commit dastardly crimes against children is common to all cultures. The perpetrator howeve...
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The Changing Face of the Shopping Paradiso, London’s Oxford Street
If it’s London, it’s Oxford Street, that manic shopping centre where the stilleto-heeled trot by starving musicians, one of whom asks me, “Where I’m fr...
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Love Hurts And Love Heals
When Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits came in 1985, it became an international bestseller. The Chile-born, California-settled author&rs...
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The Perils of the Use and Abuse of Social Media
Humans, by nature, have loved to communicate and share stories and views since the beginning of time. Who would have thought even 20 years ago that email and social media will...
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The Ever Self-indulgent Bollywood Marketing
It is well known that in spite of producing the largest number of films in the world, the health of the industry is not very sound. With a success rate of mere 10% there is no...
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The Evil Within
Atul Satya Koushik has written and directed two plays based on mythology before – Chakravyuh and Draupadi—and his strength is clearly in his wr...
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Life is Brutal
Lisa Genova’s Every Note Played is about courage, but also states a brutal fact—there is no nobility in suffering. Some diseases strike without warning, ...
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Google @ my First Address in Life and its Fruity Lychee taste: MUZAFFARPUR
I have changed many addresses in life as an itinerant. When I click life@57, it is my first address in life and its smell, taste, sight and sound that surfaces from the cradle...
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