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My daughters named after Agatha Christie: Sangma

Opposition Presidential candidate P A Sangma on Sunday said his two daughters, Christie and Agatha, were named after prominent British novelist Agatha Christie, whose book was presented to him by......

Manmohan is just another politician

It was a character in an Agatha Christie mystery who referred to murder being most difficult the first time, being driven by necessity on the second occasion, and becoming a habit subsequently.......

Enemies of the mandate

As Agatha Christie might have said, a government is announced. The prelude to it could not, however, have been messier, and the omens do not look altogether propitious.To take the episode of the......

'We are like a firewall; we make things happen'

Whether Premendra Chouhan was anywhere near the fabled Eloise Suite at the Plaza Hotel in New York over three months ago when Charlie Sheen trashed it is anybody's guess. For Chouhan, a butler at......

The Maharaja, the State, and the Temple

The autobiography of the Travancore Maharaja, released in Thiruvananthapuram by former President APJ Abdul Kalam on Tuesday, is worthy of any coffee table or library, says T P SreenivasanThe......

10 markets transformed by the Internet

Online, every click is a commercial transaction. Somebody, somewhere, is making money every time a Web site gets visited. Everything is easier to sell online. Everyone is easier to sell online.......

What we need to learn from people

F Scott Fitzgerald is renowned for being the chronicler of America's 'Gilded Age'. That was the period between the First World War and the Depression, when American plutocracy came into its own,......

Want a job as a mystery shopper?

'A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.' Yes, Churchill said that about Russia, but it's a good enough definition of a whole new career option that's only now entering India.Mystery......

These hotels have a story to tell

Besides being well-known global citizens, what is common between George Bernard Shaw, Irving Stone, Barbara Cartland, Margaret Thatcher, Prince Charles and Jacqueline Onassis? They have all stayed......

Review: Yuddham Sei is gripping

Pavithra Srinivasanreviews the Tamil film, Yuddham Sei.Post YOUR reviews here!Director Mysskin has always had his own distinctive style when it comes to film-making. His stories are deceptively......

Would you watch Shyamalan's Devil?

We've all experienced that moment of disenchantment at very different times. Initially impressed and excited by M Night Shyamalan's storytelling abilities with films like The Sixth Sense and (my......

Review: Via Darjeeling

On paper, the Via Darjeeling guys had a pretty neat idea. Literature and cinema have played with the idea of the unreliable narrator for ages, fooling us and then making us applaud how well we've......

'I'm a survivor, a fighter'

Anil Kapoor is probably the only actor who still has a strong acting career ahead of him even as his daughter, Sonam, makes her entry into Bollywood.The actor made his debut in 1979's Hamare......

'Audiences are smarter than we are'

Films by Manoj Night Shyamalan always generate a lot ofcuriosity. And as his Lady In The Water prepares to hit theatres next week, who better to give us a glimpse than the director......

Ferrari blame Mosley for F1 exodus

Ferrari have compared the disappearance of leading manufacturers from Formula One to an Agatha Christie murder mystery, with the finger of guilt pointed at former FIA president Max Mosley.Toyota......

'Somdev needs to use the forehand more'

He was promising as a junior. A title win at the 2001 Australian Open (boys' singles) was followed by the No 2 ranking the same year. The transition to the senior level has been anything but......

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Q. Agath christie disppeared for ten days---What is the reason behind it ?
Sudhakar Kuruvada: A. more

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Q. WHY DID AGATHA CHRISTIE DIE
Arun Kumar: A. Agatha Christie disappeared for 10 days on 3rd December 1926. Around 9.45pm, she went upstairs to kiss her sleeping daughter, Rosalind, and then...... more

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Q. exactly, how many books were written by Agatha Christie
Arun Kumar: A. Agatha Christie died on 12 January 1976 at age 85 from natural causes at her Winterbrook House in the north of Cholsey parish, adjoining...... more

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Q. who was max mallowan
Arun Kumar: A. Ninety one of which 82 were written under the name Agatha Christie,6 under the pen name Mary Westmacott,2 as Christie Mallowan and her autobiography. more

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Spring is the Time for Light & Romantic Hidden Object Games

--(PR.com)-- It has long been observed that games are season-specific, and it concerns not only holidays like Christmas, Easter or Halloween.... ...

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Beach that inspired Agatha Christie fetches 70k pounds in auction

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man who loved history

Sarvepalli Gopal, the collected essays: IMPERIALISTS, NATIONALISTS, DEMOCRATS Edited by Srinath Raghavan, Permanent Black, Rs 895 Jawaharlal was... ...

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130510/jsp/opinion/story_16879271.jsp

HarperCollins to launch digital-first mystery imprint, with monthly royalty payments

HarperCollins’ William Morrow division will launch Witness, a digital-first imprint for mysteries and thrillers, this October, the company... ...

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A non U narrative

It is silly to complain. Eight-an-a-half decades are a long enough span of existence, at the end of which some of the faculties are bound to betray... ...

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130422/jsp/opinion/story_16795597.jsp

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