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When smugglers wanted to buy a helicopter

Iqbal wanted to land the smuggled goods by helicopter on the Andaman Islands. DK asked, 'Iqbal, a helicopter will bring the consignment to the island, drop it there and then return. Won't radars......

How to Be a Likeable Bigot

A bigot is a person who puts people off with the strength of their thoughts, which are not based on fact, but on bias.If you put people off, you are not likeable. Simple.So how do you become a......

When a US president wanted Indian minister sacked!

'Galbraith had a powerful ally in Washington -- not as blunt and direct as the ambassador -- but committed to see Krishna Menon go.''This was President Kennedy himself.'A revealing excerpt from......

How Modi tried to manage China & Pakistan

'New Delhi showed itself willing -- at least for a period -- to tolerate the risk of conflict and to withstand Beijing's implicit and explicit threats.''But it also continued to try to cut some......

When ISIS found home in India

The nine meetings offer an interesting window into Shafi Armar's efforts to try and group together what after all were excitable keyboard warriors into an actual terror group, capable of handling......

How NIIT became a big success in China

The job placement rate for students trained by NIIT in China is over 90 per cent.A revealing excerpt from Saibal Dasgupta's Running With The Dragon: How India Should Do Business With China. ......

Tata's Chandra on India and its Jobs Problem

Nearly 490 million people of working age are outside the bounds of India's unemployment assessments.A decrease in the unemployment rate could signal economic growth, but could just as well mean......

The Ticking Time Bomb

Nearly 31 million Indians are unemployed and looking for jobs.While economic growth has been humming along, the pace of job creation has been poor.A revealing excerpt from Dev Kar's India: Still A......

'Vijay came across as a force of nature'

Long before he launched Paytm, Vijay Shankar Sharma, a 32 year old from Aligarh, embarked on his ambitious entrepreneurial journey. A revealing excerpt from Rahul Chandra's The Moonshot Game:......

Revealed: How PM planned demonetisation

November 8 will mark three years after demonetisation.A K Bhattacharya reveals for the first time how the prime minister and the RBI worked together for months before Modi's 8 pm speech.A riveting......

Tere Sur Aur Mere Geet: When Music was King

Film music flourished in the 1970s. Some old masters did some great work, but it was also the decade of new composers.A fascinating excerpt from Amit Khanna's Words. Sounds. Images: A History Of......

Sridevi the eternal screen Goddess of Bollywood

Sridevi had updated her art to become more contemporary than current actors.She was new-age and yet vintage.By making the predictable so precious, she makes it a scene that could hold its head high......

SECRETS about Silsila you never knew!

'Amitabh practised Rang Barse well; the singing, movements, everything. And he got the inflections perfectly.' By 1980, when Yash Chopra launches Silsila, his composers (Hariprasad Chaurasia and......

SEE: Why Sridevi refused to work with Amitabh

'Sridevi was known as this elusive movie star, but there was a ticking brain there that I don't think she got enough credit for.'Videos: Hitesh Harisinghani/Rediff.com Photograph: Kind courtesy......

Three movies you must watch!

Indira Kannan picks Made in Bangladesh, Greed, Moothon. IMAGE: A scene from Moothon. The labels are a common sight on the racks of most fast fashion stores in the West -- Made in Sri Lanka,......

India's Sporting Legacy: Yes, We Can!

'I have grown up in an environment where the dominant narrative of Indian sporting achievement was -- We can't.''These achievers have fought hard, built on each other's body of work and knowledge,......

The First Great Indian Cricketer

One cricketer made all the difference when the first All India cricket team toured England in 1911.Baloo Palwankar startled the English with his guile and genius.A fascinating excerpt from Prashant......

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25 budding authors selected for 'You Are All I Need' Penguin-Romedy Now romantic anthology

2020 09:21:43 PM New Delhi, Apr 29 (IANS): Twenty-five budding authors have made the cut for an anthology, 'You Are All I Need' to be published by... ...

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Penguins Waddle Around Empty Streets Amid Lockdown

Three African penguins took a leisurely stroll down the quiet streets of Cape Town in South Africa as humans stayed indoors during a national... ...

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JLF in colaboration with Penguin Random House

Jaipur Literature Festival and Penguin Random House India have come together for the initiative #ReadForResilience, that will showcase a series of... ...

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Sridevi, the Eternal Screen Goddess and 'Female' Bachchan who fought for equality...

In December 2019, Satyarth Nayak wrote Sridevi: The Eternal Screen Goddess, published by Penguin Random House India. In a conversation with us,... ...

https://www.hindustantimes.com/books/sridevi-the-eternal-screen-goddess-and-female-bachchan-who-fought-for-equality-in-bollywood/story-I1rUfy4smew3RE3EkFLgUM.html

Penguin Visits Whales At Aquarium Closed Due To Coronavirus. Watch

On Tuesday, Shedd Aquarium revealed that over the weekend, one of their oldest penguins, Wellington, met the belugas housed at the facility. The... ...

https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/penguin-visits-whales-at-aquarium-closed-due-to-coronavirus-watch-2204062

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