His fingers flew, fluttered and floated in quicksilver changes of raga and rhythm, drumming up music and magic. IMAGE: Tabla Maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain. Photograph: ANI Photo Zakir Hussain was......
Ajit Balakrishnan decodes the angst-ridden discourse of the day.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Not a day passes without encountering some serious thinker venting his/her angst on this......
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made his debut among the world's most powerful people, ranked 15th on the Forbes list topped by Russian President Vladimir Putin who pipped his US counterpart......
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