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When Chetan Bhagat locked horns with Pak literary greats

On Day One of the Times of India Literary Carnival in Mumbai, Chetan Bhagat took on his two Pakistani counterparts Mohammed Hanif and Mohsin Hamid. Here's what happened. One of the early sessions......

Asghar Ali Engineer: Simple, fearless, straight from the heart

Renowned Islamic scholar Asghar Ali Engineer, who passed away in Mumbai on Tuesday , was opposed to all forms of religious bigotry including by the clergy of his own faith. For opposing the......

Death row convict Yakub Memon awarded MA degree

Yakub Memon, the only convict in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case whose death sentence was confirmed by the Supreme Court recently , has been awarded a master's degree in English literature by the......

Witnesses testify against LeT in Pak's 26/11 case

Details about the distribution of weapons to the Mumbai attacks' terrorists were among the "huge quantity" of incriminating items recovered during a raid on two Lashkar-e-Tayiba training camps in......

How India can move from cynicism to hope

India just needs to exploit its natural strengths to live up to its potential, says Arun Jaitley. We live in an age of both cynicism and hope. When we see the depressing environment around us,......

Of Cobrapost and a Japanese firm named after Mumbai

An online search for Mumbai Street Company, which has stake in firm owned by Cobrapost editor, drew a blank. An entity named after ‘Mumbai’ but based in Japan’s Saitama city......

COLUMN: Seeking shared value

Many people, not only in business but in society at large, still see progress and social justice as an either-or choice, writes Rajni Bakshi. Violent clashes between local people and the......

Freedom, hurt sentiments and dissent

Can there be a democratic polity without a culture of democratic behaviour? This may seem like a hackneyed question. But it has, once again, been brought into sharp focus in two very different......

BRICS, by the signposts

The third BRIC summit in Sanya, China, on Thursday will have a new member: South Africa. Ten years after Goldman Sachs drew up the concept, BRIC has become something of an international......

What's in a name? Bajaj Auto's mega change

In just three months from now, 'Hamara Bajaj' could become 'Hamara Pulsar' or 'Hamara Discover'. And the man presiding over this mega transition will be none other than a Bajaj himself Bajaj Auto......

Seeing Afghanistan through a different lens

Three teenage girls have made a brief documentary called The Kabul Cards, which shows a much more cheerful side of Afghanisthan's capital, Kabul. It has broken the stereotype of bombed out sites......

'Hit films have made life easier'

Imtiaz Ali -- who broke into television and then into films without having family connections in Bollywood, assisting a director or working for a movie production house -- will gladly tell you that......

Cinema: The Voice of the People

Bollywood, along with regional commercial cinema, has reflected the ideology of its time, writes Malavika Sangghvi.A social anthropologist eager to understand Indian society would do well to look......

FIRST LOOK: Big B, Leo in The Great Gatsby

Australian director Baz Luhrmann is back this Christmas with his adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and we finally have a look at the ambitious film, apparently shot in 3D. The......

Scuffle between journos and Oprah's guards at Vrindavan

On her maiden trip to India, American talk show queen Oprah Winfrey's visit to the holy town of Vrindavan in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, on January 19was marred when her bodyguards were involved in a......

Suresh Saraiya, one of the best-loved radio commentators

Haresh Pandya pays tribute to noted radio commentator Suresh Saraiya, who passed away in Mumbai on Wednesday following a heart attack. July 18, 2012, turned out to be a sad day for Hindi cinema and......

Bharat Ratna for Dhyan Chand, Tendulkar left out?

With the Board of Control for Cricket in India not recommending Sachin Tendulkar, there is intense speculation whether the batting maestro could miss out on the prestigious Bharat Ratna this year.......

Vettori unhappy over 'used wicket' for semi-final

The World Cup semi-final between Sri Lanka and New Zealand will be played on the same slow strip on which the hosts steamrolled a jaded and tired England, and Kiwi skipper Daniel Vettori is not......

Momentum is still with South Africa: Kallis

India's Gautam Gambhir and Sachin Tendulkar might have restored the balance in the match with their spirited batting but injured South Africa all-rounder Jacques Kallis feels the momentum is still......

Sehwag flattered to deceive

The third edition of the Indian Premier League has reached its fag end with the culmination of the group stage. The qualification of the four teams -- Mumbai Indians, Deccan Chargers, Chennai......

People speak for mumbai literature

QNA

Q. Whats the ongoing controversy of Girish Karnad ?
Joyesh Chakraborty: A. more

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Q. A Nobel Prize winner in Literature was not an Indian by origin but was born in India. Who was he?
Joyesh Chakraborty: A. Rudyard Kipling, born in Mumbai, 1865 (then Bombay in British India), was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907. He remains the youngest...... more

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Q. what is the minimum size of penis is sufficient for sexual intercourse. And also want to know the indian longest penis size if you could know?
Good Citizen: A. According to literature, the normal size of an adult penis is 11 cm in flaccid state and 14-18 cm in the erectile state. A penis that can stimulate...... more

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Q. how much size is sufficient of penis for sex
SHRIYA NAYAK: A. According to literature, the normal size of an adult penis is 11 cm in flaccid state and 14-18 cm in the erectile state. A penis that can stimulate...... more

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