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Bhanu Sahni: 'Ukraine is my second homeland'

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How India Won The 1971 War

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He told the middle class not only to become talkers, but doers

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Giving women in farming and fisheries their due

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Why did Sundar Pichai fire James Damore?

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Modern women bosses becoming bullies: Study

Women may have spent decades battling their way to the top in business, but their rapid success and increasing stress at the workplace are actually turning them into bullies, says a new study.The......

Being a nice guy doesn't pay off, literally!

Being a nice guy is perhaps not good always, at least for your professional career, as a new study has found that men with disagreeable personalities are 18 per cent more likely to earn more than......

Abhay 3 Review

Pinch your nerves, and trust the ghoul -- blood will be spilled; women, children, and grouchy old men will be dismembered! observes Sreehari Nair. A critic who dedicates six or seven hours of his......

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For some time you let me into your dreams

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The Gali Guleiyan Review

'The overarching fact of modern social behaviour isn't that we are irresponsible women and men, but that we are never quite sure, when and how to act responsibly.''This is the real side of every......